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Gabe Mythen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reframing risk Citizen Journalism and the transformation of news
Journal of Risk Research, 2010Co-Authors: Gabe MythenAbstract:Western media outlets are increasingly drawing upon public footage and Citizen accounts of risk incidents. Contemporaneously, technological advances have enabled members of the public to create and disseminate independent media products. The growth in ‘Citizen Journalism’ has been facilitated by technological convergence and the development of an interactive media environment in which Citizens are not simply sources of information and/or audiences, but also recorders and creators of news. Despite fundamental changes in news production, the impact of Citizen Journalism on the reporting of risk remains an undeveloped area. This article maps out the range of effects that Citizen Journalism has on the production and presentation of risk information. From a constructive angle, we consider the extent to which Citizen Journalism adds to the plurality of risk discourses, democratises news flows and sets alternate news values. This positive account is counterbalanced by an analysis of the limits of Citizen journal...
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Reframing risk? Citizen Journalism and the transformation of news
Journal of Risk Research, 2010Co-Authors: Gabe MythenAbstract:Western media outlets are increasingly drawing upon public footage and Citizen accounts of risk incidents. Contemporaneously, technological advances have enabled members of the public to create and disseminate independent media products. The growth in 'Citizen Journalism' has been facilitated by technological convergence and the development of an interactive media environment in which Citizens are not simply sources of information and/or audiences, but also recorders and creators of news. Despite fundamental changes in news production, the impact of Citizen Journalism on the reporting of risk remains an undeveloped area. This article maps out the range of effects that Citizen Journalism has on the production and presentation of risk information. From a constructive angle, we consider the extent to which Citizen Journalism adds to the plurality of risk discourses, democratises news flows and sets alternate news values. This positive account is counterbalanced by an analysis of the limits of Citizen Journalism, including the problem of distortion, issues of unequal access and the embedding of populist forms of news presentation. In the light of this analysis, the article concludes by illuminating salient research gaps and identifying areas ripe for empirical investigation.
Axel Bruns - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Citizen Journalism and everyday life: A case study of Germany's Myheimat.de
2011Co-Authors: Axel BrunsAbstract:The impact of Citizen Journalism on the established Journalism industry, and its role in the future news media mix, remain key topics in current Journalism studies research, not least in the context of the current crisis facing many news organisations around the globe. The centrality of this issue is also reflected in the substantial number of ‘Citizen Journalism’ monographs and collections published across the last few years (see for example Paterson & Domingo, 2008; Boler, 2008; Allan & Thorsen, 2009; Neuberger, Nuernbergk, & Rischke, 2009; Gordon, 2009; Russell & Echchaibi, 2009; Meikle & Redden, forthcoming). With relatively few notable exceptions, much of the research and wider public discussion surrounding the Citizen Journalism phenomenon has employed a relatively narrow definition of the term, with many researchers focussing on Citizen Journalism projects which provide mainly political news and commentary, and on their role in influencing the political process especially in countries like the U.S.
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Citizen Journalism and everyday life : a case study of Germany's myHeimat.de
2010Co-Authors: Axel BrunsAbstract:Much recent research into Citizen Journalism has focussed on its role in political debate and deliberation. Such research examines important questions about Citizen participation in democratic processes – however, it perhaps places undue focus on only one area of journalistic coverage, and presents a challenge which only a small number of Citizen Journalism projects can realistically hope to meet. A greater opportunity for broad-based Citizen involvement in journalistic activities may lie outside of politics, in the coverage of everyday community life. A leading exponent of this approach is the German-based Citizen Journalism Website myHeimat.de, which provides a nationwide platform for participants to contribute reports about events in their community. myHeimat takes a hyperlocal approach but also allows for content aggregation on specific topics across multiple local communities; Hannover-based newspaper publishing house Madsack has recently acquired a stake in the project. Drawing on extensive interviews with myHeimat CEO Martin Huber and Madsack newspaper editors Peter Taubald and Clemens Wlokas during October 2008, this paper analyses the myHeimat project and examines its applicability beyond rural and regional areas in Germany; it investigates the question of what role Citizen Journalism may play beyond the political realm.
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'Preditors': making Citizen Journalism work
2009Co-Authors: Jason A. Wilson, Axel Bruns, Barry J. SaundersAbstract:As interest grows in “Citizen Journalism” and user-generated news content, parallel forms of professional practice are emerging among those charged with facilitating amateur news production. But for now, these are easy to miss. Independent online initiatives and established news organizations have successfully experimented with user-generated content, but layers of professional supervision and coordination are often hidden from view in key debates. Few successful Citizen Journalism websites thrive on the efforts of users alone and most incorporate small professional teams that coordinate, manage, publicise and contribute content. Bringing this kind of work to light enables more informed discussions of possible futures in this area – both for Citizen Journalism initiatives and for Journalism as a profession.
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Citizen Journalism and everyday life : A case study of Germany’s myHeimat.de
2009Co-Authors: Axel BrunsAbstract:Much recent research into Citizen Journalism has focussed on its role in political debate and deliberation. Such research examines important questions about Citizen participation in democratic processes – however, it perhaps places undue focus on only one area of journalistic coverage, and presents a challenge which only a small number of Citizen Journalism projects can realistically hope to meet. A greater opportunity for broad-based Citizen involvement in journalistic activities may lie outside of politics, in the coverage of everyday community life. A leading exponent of this approach is the German-based Citizen Journalism Website myHeimat.de, which provides a nationwide platform for participants to contribute reports about events in their community. myHeimat takes a hyperlocal approach but also allows for content aggregation on specific topics across multiple local communities; Hannover-based newspaper publishing house Madsack has recently acquired a stake in the project. Drawing on extensive interviews with myHeimat CEO Martin Huber and Madsack newspaper editors Peter Taubald and Clemens Wlokas during October 2008, this paper analyses the myHeimat project and examines its applicability beyond rural and regional areas in Germany; it investigates the question of what role Citizen Journalism may play beyond the political realm.
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preditors making Citizen Journalism work
AMIC Conference Proceedings: Convergence Citizen Journalism & Social Change, 2008Co-Authors: Jason A. Wilson, Barry J. Saunders, Axel BrunsAbstract:Although there is great interest in Citizen Journalism services that harness user-generated content, the continuing contribution of professional staff who coordinate such efforts is often overlooked. This paper offers a typology of the work of the professional "preditors" who continue to operate at the heart of "pro-am" Journalism initiatives. It shows that their work takes place along four dimensions – content work, networking, community work and tech work. It suggests that this is a structural change in journalistic practice, which has implications for journalists' professional identity and Journalism education.
Bogdan Carbunar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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WISEC - Liveness verifications for Citizen Journalism videos
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2015Co-Authors: Mahmudur Rahman, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Umut Topkara, Bogdan CarbunarAbstract:Citizen Journalism videos increasingly complement or even replace the professional news coverage through direct reporting by event witnesses. This raises questions of the integrity and credibility of such videos. We introduce Vamos, the first user transparent video "liveness" verification solution based on video motion, that can be integrated into any mobile video capture application without requiring special user training. Vamos' algorithm not only accommodates the full range of camera movements, but also supports videos of arbitrary length. We develop strong attacks both by utilizing fully automated attackers and by employing trained human experts for creating fraudulent videos to thwart mobile video verification systems. We introduce the concept of video motion categories to annotate the camera and user motion characteristics of arbitrary videos. We share motion annotations of YouTube Citizen Journalism videos and of free-form video samples that we collected through a user study. We observe that the performance of Vamos differs across video motion categories. We report the expected performance of Vamos on the real Citizen Journalism video chunks, by projecting on the distribution of categories. Even though Vamos is based on motion, we observe a surprising and seemingly counter-intuitive resilience against attacks performed on relatively "static" video chunks, which turn out to contain hard-to-imitate involuntary movements. We show that the accuracy of Vamos on the task of verifying whole length videos exceeds 93% against the new attacks.
Andrew M. Lindner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Editorial gatekeeping in Citizen Journalism
New Media & Society, 2016Co-Authors: Andrew M. LindnerAbstract:Editorial staff play an essential role as gatekeepers within professional Journalism. Citizen Journalism has the potential to depart from routine journalistic practices and allow for more democratic posting of unmoderated content. Nonetheless, many Citizen Journalism web sites do have an editorial staff and no existing research has explored the contributions of editors to Citizen Journalism web sites. I theorize that the editorial staff on Citizen Journalism sites serve as legitimating organizational structures within the larger organizational field and, as Citizen gatekeepers, who enforce journalistic routines. Using a content analysis of a sample (n = 326) drawn from the largest sampling frame of English-language Citizen Journalism web sites based in the United States to date (n = 1958), I examine the characteristics of Citizen Journalism web sites with an editorial model as well as how the presence of an editorial staff is associated with the practice of journalistic routines common in professional jou...
Barry J. Saunders - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'Preditors': making Citizen Journalism work
2009Co-Authors: Jason A. Wilson, Axel Bruns, Barry J. SaundersAbstract:As interest grows in “Citizen Journalism” and user-generated news content, parallel forms of professional practice are emerging among those charged with facilitating amateur news production. But for now, these are easy to miss. Independent online initiatives and established news organizations have successfully experimented with user-generated content, but layers of professional supervision and coordination are often hidden from view in key debates. Few successful Citizen Journalism websites thrive on the efforts of users alone and most incorporate small professional teams that coordinate, manage, publicise and contribute content. Bringing this kind of work to light enables more informed discussions of possible futures in this area – both for Citizen Journalism initiatives and for Journalism as a profession.
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preditors making Citizen Journalism work
AMIC Conference Proceedings: Convergence Citizen Journalism & Social Change, 2008Co-Authors: Jason A. Wilson, Barry J. Saunders, Axel BrunsAbstract:Although there is great interest in Citizen Journalism services that harness user-generated content, the continuing contribution of professional staff who coordinate such efforts is often overlooked. This paper offers a typology of the work of the professional "preditors" who continue to operate at the heart of "pro-am" Journalism initiatives. It shows that their work takes place along four dimensions – content work, networking, community work and tech work. It suggests that this is a structural change in journalistic practice, which has implications for journalists' professional identity and Journalism education.