International Perspectives on Citizen Journalism
There’s so much going on at the moment that it’s difficult to keep up with it all - I’ve been meaning to comment for some time on Rupert Murdoch’s latest bright idea (charging for online news content), but that will have to wait a little longer still. So, in the meantime, just a couple of quick notes about new publications we’re involved in:
Out now is a new collection edited by Stuart Allan and Einar Thorsen, covering developments in journalism around the world - Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. I’ve yet to see the book in physical form as I’m travelling at the moment, but the Website for the book looks very promising. Jason, Barry, and I contributed a chapter discussing the Youdecide2007 experience.
The other new book, also just released, is probably going to appeal to a somewhat smaller number of our regular readers: Journalismus im Internet: Profession - Partizipation - Technisierung covers the findings of a major new study of the transformation of journalism in an online context in Germany (and is published in German). Editors and authors Christoph Neuberger, Christian Nuernbergk, and Melanie Rischke kindly invited me to contribute a chapter on gatewatching and citizen journalism, which presents a condensed and updated summary of the key arguments in my 2005 book Gatewatching. Highly recommended if you can read German and want to know what’s happening there in the citizen journalism arena.
Uncategorized
Recent Comments