Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. The book investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites, ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology news site Slashdot, and further to the multitude of Weblogs that have emerged in recent years. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, this book illustrates how gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has enabled millions of users around the world to participate in the online news publishing process.
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Axel Bruns teaches in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
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Bruns analyses the rise of a means of news gathering and dissemination. Where people who are not full time media professionals (or even part time) can contribute comments and other content, like pictures and video, towards a hot topic.The book is certainly aware of the pitfalls. Like how true or accurate are these observations? Do those commenting have any bias? Actually, perhaps the biggest problem is that much of the spontaneous reporting is simply badly written and thus not that interesting to read. Even so, the immediacy and breadth of the observations makes this a useful complement to traditional news. The events that occurred after the book was printed - the London subway bombings and Hurrican Katrina, show that a mass audience does exist for this new type of reporting.
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It was the photocopier, not the Internet or its most popular publishing technology, the World Wide Web, which led Canadian media scholar Marshall McLuhan to coin one of his most enduring catchphrases: "Everyone's a publisher." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
open news publishing, multiperspectival coverage, multiperspectival news, syndication streams, multiperspectival journalism, collaborative news production, open editing systems, semantic wet, redactional society, open news sites, grassroots reporting, peer mobility, indymedia network, edit queue, individual blogs, open publishing, traditional news organizations, into the blogosphere, submission queue, output participation, media ecosystem, participatory journalism, posting guidelines, stuff that matters, open source intelligence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clay Shirky, New York, New Forms of Journalism, Stand Down, Independent Media Centers, Rusty Foster, Semantic Well, World Wide Web, Nieman Reports, Future Active, Matthew Arnison, Open Source Democracy, Fixed Roles, Graham Meikle, Open Publishing Is the Same, The Media Center, United States, American Press Institute, Article Submission Questions, Construction of Online News, John Hiler, Axel Bruns, Broadcast Institutions, Community Values, Distributed Editing New!
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It was the photocopier, not the Internet or its most popular publishing technology, the World Wide Web, which led Canadian media scholar Marshall McLuhan to coin one of his most enduring catchphrases: "Everyone's a publisher." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
open news publishing, multiperspectival coverage, multiperspectival news, syndication streams, multiperspectival journalism, collaborative news production, open editing systems, semantic wet, redactional society, open news sites, grassroots reporting, peer mobility, indymedia network, edit queue, individual blogs, open publishing, traditional news organizations, into the blogosphere, submission queue, output participation, media ecosystem, participatory journalism, posting guidelines, stuff that matters, open source intelligence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clay Shirky, New York, New Forms of Journalism, Stand Down, Independent Media Centers, Rusty Foster, Semantic Well, World Wide Web, Nieman Reports, Future Active, Matthew Arnison, Open Source Democracy, Fixed Roles, Graham Meikle, Open Publishing Is the Same, The Media Center, United States, American Press Institute, Article Submission Questions, Construction of Online News, John Hiler, Axel Bruns, Broadcast Institutions, Community Values, Distributed Editing New!
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- Democracy and the News by Herbert J. Gans on 7 pages
- Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet by Graham Meikle on 4 pages
- The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect by Bill Kovach on 4 pages
- Democracy and New Media (Media in Transition) by David Thorburn on page 117, and Back Matter
- A Short History of Cultural Studies by John Hartley on page 29, and Back Matter
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