Citizen journalism. Vol. 2 : global perspectives

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Thorsen, Einar

ISBN:

9781433122828

9781433122835

Publication Information:

New York : Peter Lang, 2014

Physical Description:

xii, 406 s. : ill.

Series:

Global crises and the media, 14

Global crises and the media ; 14,

Contents:

Re-imagining citizen journalism -- Social media and the Mumbai terror attack: the coming of age of Twitter / CNN's citizen journalism platform: the ambivalent labor of iReporting / Righting wrongs: citizen journalism and miscarriages of justice / "I have a voice": the cosmopolitan ambivalence of convergent journalism / Before the revolutionary moment: the significance of Lebanese and Egyptian bloggers in the new media ecology / Citizen journalism in real time? live blogging and crisis events / Capturing crisis -- Tools in their pockets: how personal media were used during the Christchurch earthquakes / Hurricane Sandy and the adoption of citizen journalism platforms / Live reporting terror: remediating citizen crisis communication

Eyewitness images as a genre of crisis reporting / Reformulating photojournalism: interweaving professional and citizen photo-reportage of the Boston bombings / Citizen journalism, sharing, and the ethics of visibility / Globalising cultures of citizen journalism -- Citizen journalism, development and social change: hype and hope / A Latin American approach to citizen journalism / Getting into the mainstream: the digital/media strategies of a feminist coalition in Puerto Rico / Reporting a revolution and its aftermath: when activists drive the news coverage / Citizen journalism in Indonesia's disputed territories: life on the new media frontline / Civic responsibility and empowerment: citizen journalism in Russia

Beyond the newsroom monopolies: citizen journalism as the practice of freedom in Zimbabwe / New crises, alternative agendas -- "Blade and keyboard in hand": wikileaks and/as citizen journalism / Beyond journalism: the new public information space / The evolution of citizen journalism in crises: from reporting to crisis management / Citizen journalism in the age of Weibo: the Shifang environmental protest / Little brother is watching: citizen video journalists and witness narratives / Occupy Wall street and social media news sharing after the wake of institutional journalism / The activist as citizen journalist

Abstract:

The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range of national contexts; introducing new ideas, concepts and frameworks for the study of citizen journalism; and evaluating current academic and journalistic debates regarding the growing significance of citizen journalism for globalising news cultures. This book expands on the first volume by offering new investigations of citizen journalism in the United States, United Kingdom, China, India and Iran, as well as offering fresh perspectives from national contexts around the globe, including Algeria, Columbia, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia and West Papua, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar/Burma, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Syria and Zimbabwe. -- taken from Amazon®.com

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The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range of national contexts; Introducing new ideas, concepts and frameworks for the study of citizen journalism; Evaluating current academic and journalistic debates regarding the growing significance of citizen journalism for globalising news cultures.
This book expands on the first volume by offering new investigations of citizen journalism in the United States, United Kingdom, China, India and Iran, as well as offering fresh perspectives from national contexts around the globe, including Algeria, Columbia, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia and West Papua, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar/Burma, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Syria and Zimbabwe.