Citizen Journalism
- Table of Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface [full prev.]
- Introduction [full preview]
- Section One: Eyewitness Crisis Reporting
- Chapter 1: Histories of Citizen Journalism
- Chapter 2: The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq
- Chapter 3: Citizen Photojournalism During Crisis Events
- Chapter 4: Wikinews Reporting of Hurricane Katrina
- Chapter 5: Citizen Journalism in India: The Politics of Recognition
- Chapter 6: Human Rights and Wrongs: Blogging News of Everyday Life in Palestine
- Chapter 7: Citizen Journalism in China: The Case of the Wenchuan Earthquake
- Chapter 8: Blogging the Climate Change Crisis from Antarctica
- Section Two: Citizen Journalism and Democratic Cultures
- Chapter 9: The Iranian Story: What Citizens? What Journalism?
- Chapter 10: Citizen Journalism and Child Rights in Brazil
- Chapter 11: OhmyNews: Citizen Journalism in South Korea
- Chapter 12: Globalization, Citizen Journalism, and the Nation State: A Vietnamese Perspective
- Chapter 13: Citizen Journalism and the North Belgian Peace March
- Chapter 14: Indymedia and the Law: Issues for Citizen Journalism
- Chapter 15: Citizen Media and the Kenyan Electoral Crisis
- Chapter 16: Citizen Journalism as Social Networking: Reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election
- Chapter 17: Crisis Alert: Barack Obama Meets a Citizen Journalist
- Section Three: Future Challenges
Recent Comments
- Participatory Journalism: What do you think that means? « Redefining journalism's Blog on Chapter 11: OhmyNews: Citizen Journalism in South Korea
- Citizen journalism, can make it possible? « Sri Lanka Today on Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives
- Einar Thorsen on Chapter 9: The Iranian Story: What Citizens? What Journalism?
- A. N. on Chapter 9: The Iranian Story: What Citizens? What Journalism?
- Einar Thorsen on Chapter 1: Histories of Citizen Journalism
Tag Archives: democracy
Chapter 18: Citizen Journalism in the Global News Arena: China’s New Media Critics
Reese and Dai, in Chapter 18, explore the role of citizen journalists acting as media critics-both against domestic and international media- arguing that the Chinese blogosphere is increasingly featuring posts and comments that in their view are a form of … Continue reading
Chapter 17: Crisis Alert: Barack Obama Meets a Citizen Journalist
The 2008 US presidential election marked a historic shift in American politics through the election of Barack Obama. One of the key characteristics of this campaign was the coming of age of the Internet, which is explored by Fiedler in … Continue reading
Chapter 16: Citizen Journalism as Social Networking: Reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election
The 2007 Australian federal election, in contrast, will be remembered for more peaceful reasons, most notably the incumbent prime minister losing his seat and the increasingly significant role of citizen media during the campaign. In Chapter 16 Bruns, Wilson, and … Continue reading
Chapter 15: Citizen Media and the Kenyan Electoral Crisis
Peaceful protests are in stark contrast to some of the practices uncovered during the 2007 Kenyan presidential election crisis by Zuckerman (Chapter 15). He reveals how bloggers took on the role of reporters in documenting the election process and mapping … Continue reading
Chapter 12: Globalization, Citizen Journalism, and the Nation State: A Vietnamese Perspective
Despite Vietnam being listed as one of the 13 “enemies of the Internet” in 2006 by Reporters Without Borders, Nguyen (Chapter 12) argues that citizen journalism has “developed quite vigorously” there. Indeed, he illustrates how it has seen a spectacular … Continue reading