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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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