This article explores the role of trust in professional and alternative media as (a) antecedents
of citizen news production, and (b) moderators of the effect of citizen news production on …

The article reflects on contemporary processes of de-professionalisation of journalism, its
consequences for democratic processes and challenges to citizen journalism. It is argued …

Social media allow users not only to read news, but also to evaluate, reconstruct, and share
it. This study conceptualizes curatorial news use via social media as an important news use …

Blogs, alongside being an increasingly visible part of the contemporary public sphere, are
spaces of communication that offer insights into the motivations and practices of political …

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 …

In Hong Kong, young people took the lead in the 2014 Umbrella Movement. It has been
observed that these “digital natives” made heavy use of different kinds of media. In recent …

In the struggle to find sustainable business models, many local news sites have turned to
engaged journalism, which draws from social exchange theory and aims to build …

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 …

Occupy Central, which would later evolve into the Umbrella Movement, was conceived as a
civil disobedience campaign when it was first proposed in early 2013. Although the history of …

Despite the recognized influence media have over participatory political behaviors, few
studies perform systematic and direct cross-national comparisons of news use and its effects …