CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Barna, Katherine Jane |
|---|---|
| Title | Citizen Participation and Online Media: Crossroads of Technology and News |
| Summary | This work examines the growing trend of citizen journalism and its influence on traditional media outlets. By taking an in-depth look at the online web presence of three media outlets, CNN, BBC and Global Voices, and how they use or incorporate citizen journalism into their news reporting, I will seek to explore the changes taking place in the news industry and the ramifications of citizens producing their own news. Exploring these changes is important for understanding the news industry and how technology is changing the way news is gathered and reported. Using a qualitative approach, this paper will outline the characteristics of the online media outlets, how they handle citizen journalism and analyze the differences between them. By evaluating three case studies, I hope to elucidate how citizen journalism has been incorporated into traditional and non-traditional media outlets. After careful analysis of the cases, this paper demonstrates not only that citizen journalism is changing how news is reported, even within mainstream news outlets, but it is also remaking the definition of news. |
| Supervisor | Coyer, Catherine |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/barna_katherine.pdf |
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