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Reconceptualizing Citizen Media:A Preliminary Charting of a Complex Domain
This chapter draws on established scholarship in a variety of disciplines, the rich contributions to the current volume, and a wide range of concrete examples of different practices to chart the territory of citizen media as an emerging field of study and offer a critical examination of the main concepts that underpin it: public(s), citizen/citizenship and media. It further explores a range of features that characterize and delimit the concept of citizen media from related terms such as citizen and participatory journalism, alternative, radical and community media, and social and digital media. We conclude with a provisional definition of citizen media that encompasses content and practices, values and narratives, the collective and the individual, the local and the global, the concrete and the virtual, and that acknowledges the complex dynamic of appropriation and reverse appropriation within which all citizen media initiatives operate
Citizen Mediations of Connectivity::Narrowing the ‘Culture of Distance’ in Television News
Posthuman erfaring gennem ny teknologis æstetik:Tilstedeværelse i journalistiske, borgergenererede, og droneskabte billeder
Citizen mediations of connectivity: narrowing the “culture of distance” in television news
Situated, embodied, and political:Expressions of citizen journalism’
This article brings together theories of journalistic objectivity and affectivity in order to discuss their relevance in light of the emergence of citizen journalism. The claim of subjectivity and bias in citizen journalism is discussed and an idea of journalistic subjectivity as affectivity is developed. The article discusses ways in which professional journalism is positioned in relation to engaging subjectivity of citizen journalism – as convergence media, as well as independent forms of knowledge and information sharing. The often political affectivity of citizen journalism is discussed in this article and analysed in a short study
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