Citizen Journalism

Einar Thorsen is Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the Media School, Bournemouth University. Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism and Communication in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.

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; 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.

In this volume the editors seek to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, by: offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008; providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range of national contexts; and introducing new ideas, concepts and frameworks for the study of citizen journalism.

Contents: Yasmin Ibrahim: Social Media and the Mumbai Terror Attack: The Coming of Age of Twitter - Lindsay Palmer: CNN's Citizen Journalism Platform: The Ambivalent Labor of iReporting - Chris Greer/Eugene McLaughlin: Righting Wrongs: Citizen Journalism and Miscarriages of Justice - Lilie Chouliaraki: "I have a voice": The Cosmopolitan Ambivalence of Convergent Journalism - Kristina Riegert: Before the Revolutionary Moment: The Significance of Lebanese and Egyptian Bloggers in the New Media Ecology - Neil Thurman/James Rodgers: Citizen Journalism in Real Time? Live Blogging and Crisis Events - Donald Matheson: Tools in Their Pockets: How Personal Media Were Used During the Christchurch Earthquakes - Trevor Knoblich: Hurricane Sandy and the Adoption of Citizen Journalism Platforms - Einar Thorsen: Live Reporting Terror: Remediating Citizen Crisis Communication - Mette Mortensen: Eyewitness Images as a Genre of Crisis Reporting - Stuart Allan: Reformulating Photojournalism: Interweaving Professional and Citizen Photo-reportage of the Boston Bombings - Graham Meikle: Citizen Journalism, Sharing, and the Ethics of Visibility - Silvio Waisbord: Citizen Journalism, Development and Social Change: Hype and Hope - Clemencia Rodríguez: A Latin American Approach to Citizen Journalism - Firuzeh Shokooh Valle: Getting into the Mainstream: The Digital/Media Strategies of a Feminist Coalition in Puerto Rico - Yomna Kamel: Reporting a Revolution and Its Aftermath: When Activists Drive the News Coverage - Kayt Davies: Citizen Journalism in Indonesia's Disputed Territories: Life on the New Media Frontline - Karina Alexanyan: Civic Responsibility and Empowerment: Citizen Journalism in Russia - Last Moyo: Beyond the Newsroom Monopolies: Citizen Journalism as the Practice of Freedom in Zimbabwe - Lisa Lynch: "Blade and Keyboard In Hand": Wikileaks and/as Citizen Journalism - Nik Gowing: Beyond Journalism: The New Public Information Space - Hayley Watson/Kush Wadhwa: The Evolution of Citizen Journalism in Crises: From Reporting to Crisis Management - Lei Guo: Citizen Journalism in the Age of Weibo: the Shifang Environmental Protest - Mary Angela Bock: Little Brother Is Watching: Citizen Video Journalists and Witness Narratives - Kevin Michael DeLuca/Sean Lawson: Occupy Wall Street and Social Media News Sharing after the Wake of Institutional Journalism - Sue Robinson/Mitchael L. Schwartz: The Activist as Citizen Journalist.