Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism in Newsrooms, Classrooms and Beyond assesses citizen journalism within the context of hyperlocals, non-profits and large global news organizations, critically examining various forms of participation by citizen contributors to the news.
The essays included within the book answer questions such as: Does citizen journalism close the news participation gap between the Global North and South? How can citizen journalism enable the socially excluded to overcome marginalization? What are the obligations of professional news outlets to citizen reporters in war zones? Furthermore, some contributors critique the ways traditional journalism makes use of non-professional content, while others propose new analytical frameworks such as reciprocal journalism, connective journalism and the Appropriation/Amplification Model.
The book also investigates efforts to teach ordinary people journalism skills in Europe, the Middle East and both North and South America. Some of the programs scrutinized here instill under-represented groups with semi-professional news values. Other projects support citizen journalism infused with activism such as the photographers of the favela-based jornalismo popular or the volunteer digital humanitarians covering global crises and, in doing so, demonstrate new ways to respond to the rise of grassroots participation in the production of news.
The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues of Journalism Practice.
Edited by:
Melissa Wall
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 444g
ISBN: 9781032084022
ISBN 10: 1032084022
Series: Journalism Studies
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 30 June 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Introduction, 1. How participation is practiced by in-betweeners of journalism 2. Reciprocity and the hyper-local journalist 3.The social reporter in action; an analysis of the practice and discourse of Andy Carvin 4. Looking after Ibrahim; how journalists network, develop and safeguard relationships with citizen journalists and activists in Syria 5. Digital humanitarians; citizen journalists on the virtual front line of natural and human-caused disasters 6. Constructing cholera; CNN iReport, the Haitian cholera epidemic and the limits of citizen journalism 7. The Appropriation/Amplification Model of Citizen Journalism; an account of structural limitations and the political economy of participatory content creation 8. Citizen journalism at the margins 9. ""Shared Photography""; (Photo)journalism and political mobilisation in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas 10. Helping Syrians tell their story to the world; training Syrian citizen journalists through connective journalism 11. Citizen health journalism; negotiating between political engagement and professional identity in a media training program for healthcare workers 12. From audience to reporter; recruiting and training community members at a participatory news site serving a multiethnic city 13. Training or improvisation? citizen journalists and their educational backgrounds—a comparative view"
Melissa Wall is a Professor of Journalism at California State University – Northridge, USA and the author of two previous books about citizen journalism, Citizen Journalism: Practices, Propaganda, Pedagogy, and the edited volume, Citizen Journalism: Valuable, Useless or Dangerous? She is the founder of the Pop-Up Newsroom, a temporary, virtual newsroom for citizen and student journalists.
