Book description
Who makes the news in a digital age? Participatory Journalism
offers fascinating insights into how journalists in Western democracies
are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced
and published by the public.
- A timely look at digital news, the changes it is bringing for
journalists and an industry in crisis
- Original data throughout, in the form of in-depth interviews with
dozens of journalists at leading news organizations in ten Western
democracies
- Provides a unique model of the news-making process and its
openness to user participation in five stages
- Gives a first-hand look at the workings and challenges of online
journalism on a global scale, through data that has been seamlessly
combined so that each chapter presents the views of journalists in
many nations, highlighting both similarities and differences, both
national and individual
David Domingo
is a senior lecturer in online journalism at the Department of
Communication Studies of Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona,
Spain. Domingo, who has a Ph. D. in Journalism from the Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, was a doctoral fellow at the University of
Tampere (2004) and visiting assistant professor at the University of
Iowa (2007-2008). His research interests include online journalists'
professional ideology and work routines, as well as the dynamics of
innovations such as participatory journalism and convergence. He is
co-editor, with Chris Paterson, of
Making Online News: The
Ethnography of New Media Production
(Peter Lang, 2008).
Ari Heinonen, Ph. D., is journalism teacher and researcher in
the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University
of Tampere, Finland. A former newspaper journalist, he has focused his
academic research on explorations of the changing nature of
professionalism in journalism, concepts of journalism in the new media
era and journalistic ethics. He has directed and participated in a
number of national and international research and development projects
in these areas.
Alfred Hermida is a digital media scholar, journalism educator
and online news pioneer. Since 2006, he has been an assistant
professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of
British Columbia, Canada. Hermida was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the
University of Michigan in 2005 and an IBM CAS Canada Research Faculty
Fellow in 2010. An award-winning journalist who served for four years
as a Middle East correspondent, Hermida is a 16-year veteran of the
BBC and was a founding news editor of the BBC News website in 1997. He
has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Times of
London, The Guardian and NPR.
Steve Paulussen, Ph. D., is a part-time lecturer in journalism
studies at both the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of
Antwerp, as well as a senior researcher at the IBBT research group for
Media & ICT (MICT) at Ghent University, Belgium. In recent years,
he has participated in a number of projects on different aspects of
today's digital media culture. His main research interests lie in the
field of journalism studies, where he has published on developments in
online journalism, newsroom convergence and the sociological profile
of professional journalists. Between 2006 and 2010, he also was
involved in a multi-disciplinary strategic research project on digital
news trends in Flanders, Belgium (FLEET).
Thorsten Quandt, Dr. phil. habil, is a professor in
Communication Studies / Interactive Media and Online Communication at
the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He has served as chair of the
Journalism Studies Division in the German Communication Association
(DGPuK) and as an officer in the Journalism Studies Division in the
International Communication Association (ICA). His widely published
research includes studies on online journalism, media evolution,
network communication and computer games.
Jane B. Singer is an associate professor in the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, USA, and
a visiting professor in the School of Journalism, Media and
Communication at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. From 2007
to 2010, she was the Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism at
Central Lancashire. Her research explores digital journalism,
including changing roles, perceptions, norms and practices. Before
earning a Ph. D. in journalism from the University of Missouri, Singer
was the first news manager of Prodigy Interactive Services. She also
has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor.
Zvi Reich, Ph. D., is a former journalist and a researcher in
journalism studies at the Department of Communication, Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, Israel. His book, Sourcing the News,
was published by Hampton Press in 2009. Reich's research interests
focus on online news, sociology of news, the relations between
reporters and sources, authorship in journalism and the use of
communication technologies in journalism. Two of his papers have won
the top three papers prize of the Journalism Studies Division at ICA.
Other research has appeared in Journalism Studies,
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and
Journalism. He is a member of the editorial board of
Journalism Practice.
Marina Vujnovic, Ph. D., is an assistant professor at Monmouth
University, USA. Her primary fields of research are participatory
journalism and new media studies, media history and gender, critical
political economy, and cultural studies. Additional research interests
include international communication and the global flow of
information, as well as ethnicity and the media. She is the author of
Forging the Bubikopf Nation: Journalism, Gender and Modernity in
Interwar Yugoslavia (Peter Lang, 2009).
