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Community Journalism Midst Media Revolution (Paperback)
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Community Journalism Midst Media Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Journalism Studies
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This edited volume documents the changes taking place globally in
local community practices. Digital technologies and globalization
have forced evolutions in how we go about producing and consuming
journalism, and these essays empirically and theoretically advance
the scholarly conversations about those trends. What does it mean
to serve the information needs of a community in a digitized social
world where so many of our ties - weak and strong - are at least
partially maintained in virtual worlds? With authors and data from
all over the world, this work celebrates a fundamental
connectedness to citizens and their community and renews the
emphasis on home as a mandate for any locally focused news
organization. The contributions to this volume explore the "flows"
within both digital spaces and geographic places that are an
important foreground to any conversation about what is community
today. Several terms are coined and explored in the volume,
including "geosocial journalism" and "reciprocal journalism" that
account for the essentiality of information sharing in global
public realms to inspire feelings of community belonging. Other
chapters include a review of Patch.com - one of the largest
grassroots, digital platforms for journalism - a survey of how
Norwegian community media organizations are adapting to digital
worlds, how Swedish citizen sites operate, and the ethics of
community journalists to advocate for their citizenry regarding
digital matters. Venturing towards both optimism and dismay, the
collection argues that understandings of communal borders have
expanded. So even if journalists cannot reach the current locals
(such as in Africa as one chapter relates) or globally transient
locals, digital technologies can help relocate fractured community
into a less problematic, virtual space. This requires commitment on
the part of both journalists and citizens to preserve those
connections, utilize those technologies, and exercise those
fundamental principles of community journalism that go back more
than half a century. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Journalism Practice.
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