The Journalist's Relationship with Users: New Dimensions to Conventional Roles

Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 34-55

  Heinonen, Ari ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Formation of diverse community customers, peers and civic communities; How journalists see users: after story is written reflectors, commentators, audience pulse takers; How journalists see users: before story is written sensors and scouts, exemplars and eyewitnesses, experts; Journalist's relationship with users, new dimensions to conventional roles; Journalist's task observing and informing, actor in public life, platform for voices outside media; Journalistic roles conventional, dialogical, ambivalence; Power shift shift in balance from sender to receiver; Users as co workers guardians of quality, ancillary reporters; Users as co workers, pro am and true reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872851774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340747.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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