Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives » Wikinews http://citizenjournalism.me Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:31:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Chapter 20: Wiki Journalism http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-three-future-challenges/chapter-20-wiki-journalism/ http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-three-future-challenges/chapter-20-wiki-journalism/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:08:39 +0000 Einar Thorsen http://citizenjournalism.me/?page_id=64 Continue reading →]]> Few technological innovations invite forms of use as distinct from traditional journalistic practice as wikis. Bradshaw examines the emergence of wiki-based citizen journalism in Chapter 20, evaluates its strengths and weaknesses, and proposes a taxonomy of its different forms. Wikis are “blogs 2.0,” he argues, since their technology forces a collaborative practice that transcends the linear communications flow of blogs and discussion forums. Wikis offer a single place for the distributed discussion of blogs to take place, where the community deliberates to reach (ongoing) consensus by making changes to the original text.

Author: Paul Bradshaw

]]> http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-three-future-challenges/chapter-20-wiki-journalism/feed/ 0 Chapter 4: Wikinews Reporting of Hurricane Katrina http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-one-eyewitness-crisis-reporting/chapter-4-wikinews-reporting-of-hurricane-katrina/ http://citizenjournalism.me/the-book/section-one-eyewitness-crisis-reporting/chapter-4-wikinews-reporting-of-hurricane-katrina/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:56:17 +0000 Einar Thorsen http://citizenjournalism.me/?page_id=23 Continue reading →]]> 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 collaborative citizen journalism acted as a clearinghouse for disaster relief information, including messages from individuals willing to help the homeless. Moreover, Vis demonstrates how the Wikinews community, in striving to report on the crisis and its aftermath, dealt with issues such as the perceived “bias” of certain eyewitness reports submitted by ordinary citizens. The site’s Neutral Point of View policy, she argues, was sorely tested, especially in relation to the first-person reporting of lawlessness during the relief effort.

Author: Farida Vis

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