Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 2

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen

Peter Lang, 2009 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 406 pages

The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range of national contexts; Introducing new ideas, concepts and frameworks for the study of citizen journalism; Evaluating current academic and journalistic debates regarding the growing significance of citizen journalism for globalising news cultures.
This book expands on the first volume by offering new investigations of citizen journalism in the United States, United Kingdom, China, India and Iran, as well as offering fresh perspectives from national contexts around the globe, including Algeria, Columbia, Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia and West Papua, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Myanmar/Burma, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Syria and Zimbabwe.

About the author

Einar Thorsen is Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the Media School, Bournemouth University. Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism and Communication in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 2; Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Einar Thorsen; Global crises and the media, ISSN 1947-2587
• Editors: Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Peter Lang, 2009
• ISBN: 1433122839, 9781433122835
• Length: 406 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies; Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism; Political Science / General