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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Citizen journalism"”.
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Citizen journalism, public interest and social media in Saudi Arabia
… the nature and practice of public interest citizen journalism (PICJ) in Saudi Arabia (KSA). It offers a deeper understanding of the role and relevance of Citizen Journalism (CJ) in Saudi Arabia by analysing the coverage by Saudi citizen journalists of key economic events as matters of public …
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What is citizen journalism? A critical analysis from the perspective of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation.
… Early speculations about the influence of citizen journalism imbued the practice with an almost messianic ability to save both journalism and democracy. Whilst these suggestions were influenced by a small amount of data analysis, mainly from Western countries, they were encouraging and …
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Bayasibulala: #AmINext? an analysis of Instagram as a tool for activism against Sexual Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
… that activists use Instagram to participate in Citizen Journalism by sharing information, raising awareness, organizing, mobilizing, and advocating (Vegh, 2003). Furthermore, there is clear Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism through things such as sharing information and having calls to …
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Shifting Trust: How Generation Z Canadians Determine Trust and Credibility in Online News and Information
… strategies for mainstream, independent, and citizen journalism to foster trust, ensure credibility, and engage effectively with younger audiences.
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The missing links : an archaeology of digital journalism
… volume of content rapidly increase on the web, citizen journalism and data journalism have threatened the traditional role of institutional newsmaking. Legacy publishers, as well as digital-native outlets and aggregators, are beginning to adapt to this new news landscape, in part by drawing …
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The digital divide in South Africa : identifying emerging inequalities in Internet access and online public spheres
… and discussion on MyNews24, a South African "citizen journalism" portal on News24. The four possible models of the digital divide will be further evaluated based on the results of these findings. It is here where MyNews24 will also be evaluated as a possible online public sphere, which will …
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The Production and Consumption Practices of Online Journalism in Digital Taiwan.
… production and consumption practices of online journalism in Taiwan. Two key questions are asked: how is online journalism practised in the domain of production and consumption and how is online news culture shaped or constituted through these practices? Distinct from existing studies of online …
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Grab your fork: a netnographic study of a foodie blog and its community.
… posts on the food which she has eaten. This “citizen journalism” (Bruns, 2007) takes her blogging into the Serious Leisure arena. Secondly, Tajfel and Turner’s (1979) theory on Social Identity Theory has not previously been applied to either foodie communities or blogging communities. In the …
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Call on me : the cell phone : a multi-media tool of communication amongst South African youth and how it can be used to platform youth stories for media and advertising
… and the cell phone as a tool in investigative journalism. By analyzing two different areas, this media dissertation creates a broad and holistic understanding of the cell phone's potential functions through a strong literature review. Firstly, the cell phone's function in marketing and …
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Socialinių tinklų ir žiniasklaidos santykis: socialinės medijos svarba Baltarusijos protestų veiksmų kontekste 2020 /
… role of journalists, the specificities of citizen journalism, the challenges raised by social media, and the advantages it offers. A questionnaire was elaborated using existing literature on the relationship between social media and journalists, the definition of the normative role of the …
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Youth in Lebanon: Using collaborative and interdisciplinary communication design methods to improve social integration in post-conflict societies
… through the case-study research ranged from a citizen journalism platform reducing media bias, to a youth-led internal tourism service encouraging geographic mobility. The evaluation of the 24-hour pilot interventions demonstrated a positive shift in young people’s willingness to integrate. The …
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Porting Transmedia Storytelling to Journalism
… in the entertainment industry might be used in a journalism context. Journalism is facing many crises, not the least of which is a loss of readership and perceived relevance to its public. Presented with an ever-expanding array of media with which to interact, the public is more difficult to …
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Citizen Photojournalism: Motivations for Photographing a Natural Disaster and Sharing the Photos on the Web
This study examined what citizen photojournalists describe as their motivations for documenting a natural disaster and their descriptions of why they think they shared their photographs with an online community. This study extends and utilizes the uses and gratifications theory to explore new media …
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Journalism innovation and the ethic of participation : a case study of the Knight Foundation and its news challenge
… authority and economic viability on which U.S. journalism relied during the 20th century. This disruption has also opened a central tension for the profession: how to reconcile the need for occupational control against growing opportunities for citizen participation. How that tension is …