The New Frontiers of Journalism: Citizen Participation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Bakker, Tom; Paterson, Chris

doi:10.1057/9780230294783_11

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“…We surveyed all students enrolled in the journalism programs at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and City, University of London, in the United Kingdomboth leaders in their respective countries. In addition to our own previous work on this topic (Singer and Broersma 2020), the two nations have featured in other cross-national explorations of journalistic products and cultures (Akkerman 2011;Bakker and Paterson 2011;Deuze 2002;Porlezza and Splendore 2016). Both are high on the Global Entrepreneurship Index (2018), which ranks entrepreneurial ecosystems in 137 countries.…”

Section: Cases Population and Samplementioning

confidence: 93%

Caught Between Innovation and Tradition: Young Journalists as Normative Change Agents in the Journalistic Field

Broersma

Singer

2020

Journalism Practice

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The necessity of innovation within the newsroom, and the rise of entrepreneurial initiatives outside it, have become increasingly apparent. A common thread in this discourse is the desire for young journalists to be "change agents" who foster innovation and thus stretch existing boundaries in the profession. Employers hope new hires, seen as attuned to their generation's news use and as offering fresh knowledge and insights, will be able to drive new journalism initiatives that can attract a younger audience and so improve the enterprise's odds for economic sustainability. Using a longitudinal three-wave survey among students enrolled in two leading journalism programs in Britain and the Netherlands, we explore whether students' perceptions of innovation and entrepreneurialism are in line with this industry discourse. Do students perceive themselves as change agents who will be challenging and potentially shifting the boundaries of journalism? Or do they adhere to traditional ideas about norms and behaviors that have been ingrained in the doxa and habitus of the journalistic field over previous decades? We find that although journalism students favor the idea of "innovation" and see the value of engaging audiences, they define change predominantly in terms of technology rather than more substantive cultural transformation.

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Section: Cases Population and Samplementioning

confidence: 93%

Caught Between Innovation and Tradition: Young Journalists as Normative Change Agents in the Journalistic Field

Broersma

Singer

2020

Journalism Practice

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“…As seen in Figure 1, this article's understanding of what constitutes citizen journalism has been influenced by exposure to other studies (Allan 2007;Bowman and Willis 2003;Bakker and Paterson 2011). With such disagreements over the usage of the terms, it seems suitable to keep the term "citizen journalism" but to make a distinction between different forms of citizen journalism within the news production process-with editorial control at the forefront of this distinction.…”

Section: What Is Citizen Journalism?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At its simplest level, citizen journalism involves the activity of members of the public, who lack professional journalism training, in the capture, production and distribution of news items. Within academia, citizen journalism has been discussed using several alternative terms, including participatory journalism (Bowman and Willis 2003;Nip 2006;Domingo et al 2008;Paulussen and Ugille 2008), user generated content (Hermida and Thurman 2008) and citizen participation (Bakker and Paterson 2011). This article uses the term citizen journalism to refer to the involvement of the public in the collection, production and distribution of news items, as also referred to by a number of other scholars (Allan 2007;Allen and Thorsen 2009;Rosen 2008;Greer andMcLaughlin 2010 andLewis et al 2010).…”

Section: What Is Citizen Journalism?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen Journalism as Data for Disaster Research

Watson

2013

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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The “story” of a disaster is no longer simply told by the traditional media. Along with developments in communication technology, we are witnessing the desire of active citizens, via acts of citizen journalism, to be involved in telling the story of a “disaster”. Accordingly, from the perspective of disaster researchers seeking to understand how others perceive response to disaster, material created by citizen journalists provides a unique insight into the activities of members of the public following a disaster. The article begins by providing illustrations of acts of citizen journalism following acts of terrorism include the 2007 Glasgow airport attacks and the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The article then goes on to provide researchers with a methodological tool known as qualitative media analysis for the study of citizen journalism data. It will provide evidence of this methodology in action by presenting a case study of the 7th July 2005 London bombings.

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“…Following the Glasgow Airport attacks in 2007, Welsh was concerned about whether individuals would place themselves in danger by trying to record evidence, and ignore their civic duty of being of assistance to others. Elsewhere, BAKKER and Paterson (2011) bring attention to whether or not citizen journalism may be seen as a form of anti-social behaviour. GLASER (2005) went so far as to call citizen journalism activities following the 7 th July 2005 London bombings as “citizen paparazzi”.…”

Section: Citizen Journalism – Not New Just Distinctivementioning

confidence: 99%

Preconditions for Citizen Journalism: A Sociological Assessment

Watson

2011

Sociological Research Online

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The rise of the citizen journalist and increased attention to this phenomenon requires a sociological assessment that seeks to develop an understanding of how citizen journalism has emerged in contemporary society. This article makes a distinction between two different subcategories of citizen journalism, that is independent and dependent citizen journalism. The purpose of this article is to present four preconditions for citizen journalism to emerge in contemporary society: advanced technology, an “active audience”, a “lived” experience within digital culture, and an organisational change within the news media.

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The New Frontiers of Journalism: Citizen Participation in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Caught Between Innovation and Tradition: Young Journalists as Normative Change Agents in the Journalistic Field

Caught Between Innovation and Tradition: Young Journalists as Normative Change Agents in the Journalistic Field

Citizen Journalism as Data for Disaster Research

Preconditions for Citizen Journalism: A Sociological Assessment

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