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
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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
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
Chapter 9: The Iranian Story: What Citizens? What Journalism?
Khiabany and Sreberny (Chapter 9) address questions of citizenship and journalistic professionalism in an authoritarian regime by exploring the re-inflection of a more Western conceptualization of citizen journalism in relation to Iran’s radically different political setting. The Persian blogosphere, they … Continue reading
Chapter 7: Citizen Journalism in China: The Case of the Wenchuan Earthquake
In Chapter 7, Nip assesses citizen journalism’s response to the Wenchuan earthquake in southwestern China in May 2008. She reveals how citizen journalists were the first to report the earthquake both to a Chinese and international audience, providing eyewitness reports … Continue reading