Citizen journalism has become a prominent term referring to a variety of newsgathering and
reporting practices conducted via a range of new digital technologies. The scholarly …

Citizen Journalism explores citizen participation in the news as an evolving disruptive
practice in digital journalism. This volume moves beyond the debates over the mainstream …

This article reviews the state of research on citizen journalism over the past decade. The key
areas covered include the ways traditional journalism has responded to this phenomenon …

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 …

Democracy remains a normative vision–even if aspects of it continue to be debated–and it is
this context of democratic ideals that ultimately accords journalism its raison d'être and …

Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation re-conceptualizes citizen journalism
in the context of Habermas's theory of the public sphere and communicative action, to …

The emergence of citizen journalism has prompted the journalism field and scholars to
readdress what constitutes journalism and who is a journalist. Citizen journalists have …

Where does journalism fit in the media landscape of blogs, tweets, Facebook postings,
YouTube videos, and literally billions of Web pages? Public Journalism 2.0 examines the …

This article reviews the public and citizen journalism movements of recent years and offers
some perspectives on how the current and future journalism can function to benefit …

Examples abound where ordinary citizens have acted in journalistic ways–for example to
document unfolding natural disasters, wars and conflicts, map human rights abuses, or …