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Community Journalism Midst Media Revolution
About this book
This edited volume documents the changes taking place in local community practices globally. Digital technologies and globalization have forced evolutions in how we go about producing and consuming journalism, and these essays empirically and theoretically advance the scholarly conversations about those trends. What does it mean to serve the information needs of a community in a digitized social world where so many of our ties ā weak and strong ā are at least partially maintained in virtual worlds? With authors and data from all over the world, this work celebrates a fundamental connectedness to citizens and their community and renews the emphasis on home as a mandate for any locally focused news organization. The contributions to this volume explore the "flows" within both digital spaces and geographic places that are an important foreground to any conversation about what is community today. Several terms are coined and explored in the volume, including "geosocial journalism" and "reciprocal journalism" that account for the essentiality of information sharing in global public realms to inspire feelings of community belonging. Other chapters include a review of Patch.com ā one of the largest grassroots, digital platforms for journalism ā a survey of how Norwegian community media organizations are adapting to digital worlds, how Swedish citizen sites operate, and the ethics of community journalists to advocate for their citizenry regarding digital matters. Venturing towards both optimism and dismay, the collection argues that understandings of communal borders have expanded. So even if journalists cannot reach the current locals (such as in Africa as one chapter relates) or globally transient locals, digital technologies can help relocate fractured community into a less problematic, virtual space. This requires commitment on the part of both journalists and citizens to preserve those connections, utilize those technologies, and exercise those fundamental principles of community journalism that go back more than half a century.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Community journalism midst media revolution
- 2. Geo-Social Journalism: Reorienting the study of small commercial newspapers in a digital environment
- 3. Advocacy and Infrastructure: Community newspapers, ethics and information needs
- 4. āWe Write with Our Heartsā: How community identity shapes Norwegian community journalistsā news values
- 5. Is Anyone Out There? Assessing Swedish citizen-generated community journalism
- 6. āI Wish They Knew That We Are Doing This For Themā: Participation and resistance in African community journalism
- 7. Patch.com: The challenge of connective community journalism in the digital sphere
- 8. In Moderation: Examining how journalistsā attitudes toward online comments affect the creation of community
- 9. Reciprocal Journalism: A concept of mutual exchange between journalists and audiences
- Index