TY  - BOOK
AU  - Singer,Jane B.
TI  - Participatory journalism: guarding open gates at online newspapers 
SN  - 9781444340716
AV  - PN4833 .P37 2011eb
U1  - 070.4 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Electronic newspapers
KW  - Online journalism
KW  - Citizen journalism
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Journalism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Journalistiek
KW  - gtt
KW  - Online kranten
KW  - Participatie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Introduction -- The Impact of Participatory Journalism. Mechanisms of Participation / Alfred Hermida -- The Journalist's Relationship with Users / Ari Heinonen -- Managing Change. Inside the Newsroom / Steve Paulussen -- Managing Audience Participation / David Domingo -- User Comments / Zvi Reich -- Issues and Implications. Taking Responsibility / Jane B Singer -- Participatory Journalism in the Marketplace / Marina Vujnovic -- Understanding a New Phenomenon / Thorsten Quandt -- Fluid Spaces, Fluid Journalism / Alfred Hermida -- Appendix: About Our Study -- Glossary -- References -- Index
N2  - "Who makes the news in a digital age? Recent years have seen a dramatic change in the relationship between online media and the 'audience', and user-generated content is much more widely employed. The media space and control over what it contains are shared by bloggers, social networking pages, as well as traditional news outlets. Such an environment requires a dramatic conceptual and practical shift for journalists, who face a rapid and radical decline in their power to oversee the flow of information. The ability to productively incorporate user contributions within traditional media spaces is becoming a vital skill. This book is based on a collaborative research project by a team of journalism scholars from Europe, North America and Israel. It provides insights into how journalists at websites affiliated with leading national newspapers in ten Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced and published by the people once viewed simply as 'the audience.' The journalist's control over media space, which was based to a large extent on their access to the means of disseminating information, has evaporated, and the space is now open to everyone. Participatory Journalism goes right to the heart of what journalists do, what journalism is, and what the role of news is in contemporary democratic society that has gone digital"--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444340747
ER  -