Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 1

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Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen
Peter Lang, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 277 pages
The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range of national contexts; introducing new ideas, concepts and frameworks for the study of citizen journalism; and evaluating current academic and journalistic debates regarding the growing significance of citizen journalism for globalising news cultures. This book expands on the first volume by offering new investigations of citizen journalism in the United States, United Kingdom, China, India and Iran, as well as offering fresh perspectives from national contexts around the globe, including Algeria, Columbia, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia and West Papua, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar/Burma, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Syria and Zimbabwe. -- taken from AmazonŽ.com.
 

Contents

Histories of Citizen Journalism
17
Citizen Journalism
33
Citizen Photojournalism during Crisis Events
43
Wikinews Reporting of Hurricane Katrina
65
The Politics of Recognition 75 15
75
Blogging News
85
Blogging the Climate Change Crisis from Antarctica
107
What Citizens? What Journalism?
121
Citizen Journalism in South Korea
143
Citizen Journalism and the North Belgian Peace March
163
Issues for Citizen Journalism
175
Citizen Media and the Kenyan Electoral Crisis
187
Barack Obama Meets a Citizen Journalist
209
UserGenerated Content and Journalistic Values
233
The Future of Citizen Journalism
255
Index
271

Citizen Journalism and Child Rights in Brazil
133

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