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Citizen journalism
Here's Wikipedia's ever-changing take on citizen journalism:
Citizen journalism, also known as "participatory journalism" is the act of citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal report, We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis. They say, "The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires." ...
December 16, 2004 at 09:27 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Web-centric circularity, or double plagarism? Let me restate JD Lasica's identification of the definition of "citizen journalism" in Wikipedia:- Citizen journalism, also known as "participatory journalism" is the act of citizens "playing an active role... [Read More]
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» Timely recap: What is citizen journalism? from roblog
Web-centric circularity, or double plagarism? Let me restate JD Lasica's identification of the definition of "citizen journalism" in Wikipedia:- Citizen journalism, also known as "participatory journalism" is the act of citizens "playing an active role... [Read More]
Tracked on Dec 17, 2004 12:28:22 AM
