Amateurs striving for news production. Can they competewith professional journalism?
- Bosshart, Stefan Université de Fribourg
- Schönhagen, Philomen Université de Fribourg
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2013
Published in:
- Studies in Communication Sciences. - 2013, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 139-147
English
tWith the rise of Web 2.0 the discussion about professional journalism changing radically or even becom-ing obsolete in the future has intensified. Up to now, empirical findings mainly stem from research on(micro-)blogging and show its complementary rather than equivalent function compared with profes-sional journalism. Amazingly, the performance of collaborative amateur news websites with an explicitlyjournalistic approach has rarely been studied so far. Therefore, this paper compares the coverage of Ger-man Wikinews with a professional German mass media website and finds significant differences in variousdimensions. It thus contributes to the growing empirical evidence and literature on citizen journalism.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département des sciences de la communication et des médias
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Information, communication and media sciences
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 232599
- DOI 10.1016/j.scoms.2013.09.001
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/303741
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