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
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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 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
Chapter 4: Wikinews Reporting of Hurricane Katrina
The idea that citizen journalism can help victims of crisis is also the focus of Vis’s (Chapter 4) assessment of the performance of Wikinews in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the US coast in 2005. She illustrates how … Continue reading
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Chapter 3: Citizen Photojournalism During Crisis Events
Citizens’ eyewitness photography-especially where the use of a cell or mobile telephone equipped with a camera is concerned-is increasingly playing a significant role in crisis reporting. In Chapter 3, Liu, Palen, Sutton, Hughes, and Vieweg explore the genre of photo-blogging … Continue reading
Chapter 1: Histories of Citizen Journalism
In Chapter 1, Allan sets the scene for the book’s discussion by exploring what counts as “citizen journalism” from varied historical perspectives. Beginning with a brief overview of the emergence of the internet as a “new news medium,” he proceeds … Continue reading