Crowd-Funded Journalism

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-170

  Jian, Lian ^a   Usher, Nikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Crowdsourcing; Journalism; Mass communication; News

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING;

BUSINESS MODELS; CONSUMER CHOICE; CROWDFUNDING; JOURNALISM; MASS COMMUNICATION; MICROPAYMENTS; NEWS; ORDINARY PEOPLE; PRACTICAL GUIDANCE; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 84892511964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12051     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Agrawal, A., Catalini, C., & Goldfarb, A. (2011). Friends, family, and the flat world: the geography of crowdfunding. NBER Working Paper.
2. Aitamurto, T. (2011). The impact of crowdfunding on journalism. Journalism Practice, 5(4), 429-445.
3. Ancu, M., & Cozma, R. (2009). MySpace politics: Uses and gratifications of befriending candidates. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53(4), 2009.
4. Benkler, Y. (2006). The wealth of networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
5. Berelson, B. (1949). What "missing the newspaper" means. In P. F. Lazarsfeld & F. N. Stanton (Eds.), Communication research 1948-1949 (pp. 111-129). New York: Harper.
6. Blumler, J. G., & McQuail, D. (1968). Television in politics: Its uses and influence. London: Faber and Faber.
7. Boczkowski, P. J. (2010). News at Work: Imitation in an age of information abundance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Boczkowski, P. J., & Peer, L. (2011). The choice gap: The divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers. Journal of Communication, 61(5), 857-876.
9. Bogart, L. (1989). Press and public: Who reads what, when, where, and why in American newspapers (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
10. Browne, D. (2010). Stories from MacArthur Park. Spot.us. URL: http://spot.us/pitches/380-the-entryway
11. Burtch, G., Ghose, A., & Wattal, S. (2013). An empirical examination of the antecedents and consequences of contribution patterns in crowd-funded markets. Information Systems Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1287/isre.1120.0468
12. Charney, T., & Greenberg, B. S. (2002). Uses and gratifications of the internet. In C. A. Lin & D. J. Atkin (Eds.), Communication technology and society: Audience adoption and uses (pp. 379-407). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Incorporated.
13. Chyi, H. I. (2005). Willingness to pay for online news: An empirical study on the viability of the subscription model. Journal of Media Economics, 18(2), 131-142.
14. Cook, C. (2011). Tales of two census tracts: San Francisco, Rich and Poor. Spot.us.URL: http://Spot.us/pitches/80-tales-of-two-census-tracts-san-francisco-rich-and-poor
15. Crowe, A. (2009) The future of Bay Area newspapers in a digital age and changing economy. Spot.us.URL: http://Spot.us/pitches/66
16. Curran, J., Douglas, A., & Whannel, G. (1980). The political economy of the human-interest story. In A. Smith (Ed.), Newspapers and democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
17. Doctor, K. (2010). Newsonomics: Twelve new trends that will shape the news you get. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
18. Domingo, D. & Paterson, C. (Eds.). (2011). Making online news - Volume 2: Newsroom ethnography in the second decade of Internet journalism. New York: Peter Lang.
19. FSRN Documentaries (2011). The soundtrack of the Arab Spring. Spot.us.URL: http://Spot.us/pitches/885-rhymes-to-revolution-the-soundtrack-of-the-arab-spring.
20. Gillmor, D. (2004). We the media: Grassroots journalism by the people, for the people. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.
21. Goenka, A. (2009). Law banning lead in children's clothing faces roadblocks ahead. Spot.us. Retrieved from Spot.us' archive as it was not online.
22. Guensburg, C. (2008). Nonprofit news. American Journalism Review, 30(1), 26-33.
23. Hamilton, J. T. (2004). All the news that's fit to sell: how the market transforms information into news. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
24. Horowitz, J. K., & McConnell, K. E. (2002). A review of WTA/WTP studies. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 44, 426-447.
25. Howe, J. (2009). Crowdsourcing: Why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business. New York, NJ: Three Rivers Press.
26. InvestigateWest (2010). How green are cruise ship tourism dollars? Spot.us.URL: http://spot.us/pitches/402-how-green-are-cruise-ship-tourism-dollars
27. Isikoff, M. (2008, October 4). Obama's "good will" hunting. Newsweek.
28. Kaye, B. and Johnson, T. (2002). Online and in the know:Uses and gratifications of the web for political information. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 46(1), 54-72.
29. Katz, E. (1959). Mass communication research and the study of culture. Studies in Public Communication, 2, 1-6.
30. Katz, E., Gurevitch, M., & Haas, H. (1973). On the use of mass media for important things. American Sociological Review, 38, 164-181.
31. Kershaw, S. (2008, 23 Aug). A different way to pay for news you want. The New York Times.
32. Kim, Y. and Ball-Rokeach, S. J. (2006). Civic engagement from a communication infrastructure perspective. Communication Theory, 16(2), 173-197.
33. Klinenberg, E. (2005). Convergence: News production in a digital age. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 597, 48-64.
34. LaRose, R. & Eastin, M. S. (2004). A social cognitive theory of Internet uses and gratifications: Toward a new model of media attendance. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 48(3), 358-377.
35. Lewis, S. C. (2012). The tension between professional control and open participation. Information, Communication & Society, 15(6), 836-866.
36. Mas-Colell, A., Whinston, M. D., & Green, J. R. (1995). Microeconomic theory. Oxford University Press: New York, NY.
37. Neilson, L. A. (2010). Boycott or buycott? Understanding political consumerism. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 9(3), 214-227.
38. Nov, O. (2007). What motivates Wikipedians? Communications of the ACM, 50(11).
39. Nguyen, A. F. E., Western, M. & McKay, S. (2005). Online news in Australia: Patterns of use and gratification. Australian Studies in Journalism, 15, 5-34.
40. Overholser, G. (2006). On behalf of journalism: A manifesto for change. Philadelphia: Annenberg Public Policy Center.
41. Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism (2010). The state of the news media: An annual report on American journalism.URL: http://stateofthemedia.org/2010/
42. Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism. (2011). The state of the news media: An annual report on American journalism.URL: http://stateofthemedia.org/2011/overview-2/
43. Rubin, A. M. (2002). The uses-and-gratifications perspective of media effects. In Bryant, J. & Zillman, D., & Oliver, M. eds., Media effects: Advances in theory and research, 2nd ed., pp. 525-48. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
44. Ruggiero, T. E. (2000). Uses and gratifications theory in the 21st century. Mass Communication & Society, 3(1), 3-37.
45. Schudson, M. (2003). The sociology of the news. New York: Norton.
46. SF Public Press (2010). San Francisco's Muni: Why can't it run on time? Spot.us.URL: http://spot.us/pitches/584-san-francisco-s-muni-why-can-t-it-run-on-time
47. SF Appeal (2009). Independent city hall reporting. Spot.us.URL: http://spot.us/pitches/243-independent-city-hall-reporting.
48. Jian, L., & Shin, J. (2012). Driving forces behind donors' contribution to crowdfunded journalism. Working paper.
49. Starr, P. (2009, March 4). Goodbye to the era of newspapers (hello to a new era of corruption). The New Republic, 28-35.
50. Stepp, C. S. (2004, January). What they like. American Journalism Review.URL: http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3504
51. Underwood, D. (1993). When MBAs rule the newsroom. New York: Free Press.
52. Usher, N. (2010). Goodbye to the news: How out of work journalists assess enduring news values and the new media landscape.New Media & Society, 12(6), 911-928.
53. Usher, N. (2011). Making business news in the digital age. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
54. WFPL News (2011). Is it time to get serious about coal ash? Spot.us.URL: http://Spot.us/pitches/787-is-it-time-to-get-serious-about-coal-ash.
55. Zaller, J. (1999). Market competition and news quality. Paper presented at the 1999 annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA.
56. Zaller, J. (2003). A new standard of news quality: Burglar alarms for the monitorial citizen. Political Communication, 20(2), 109.