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 …

Times change. Early in the 21st century, calls to bridge the digital divide were dismissed by
people who saw internet access as a luxury. Two decades later, it is tough to find a policy …

The rise of digital technologies has the potential to open new directions in ethnography.
Despite the ubiquity of these technologies, their infiltration into popular sociological research …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

The communication environment in CMC is particularly relevant to the discourses of the
traditional communication theory, spiral of silence. This paper embarked on the task of …

The presence of a diversity of information offers citizens access to a range of ideas,
expertise and topics. In this study, a measure of content diversity was created to determine …

This essay conducts an analysis of blogs as public relations tools. Following an overview of
blogs, attention is given to how blogs can be used more effectively by public relations …

Women who blog about politics or identify as feminist in Germany, Switzerland, the United
Kingdom, and the United States face great risks of online abuse. In-depth interviews with …

This study examines how gender cues influence perceptions of credibility of informational
blogs. Using 2 experiments for data collection, this study manipulated the gender descriptors …

Blog has become an increasingly popular form of social networking technology in recent
years. Many world famous web sites (eg, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google) are providing blog …