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Title Eyewitness textures : user-generated content and journalism in the twenty-first century / edited by Michael Lithgow and Michèle Martin
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 339 pages) : illustrations
Contents Prologue: Truth and Technology in the Age of Digital Witnessing -- 1 New Voices, New Practices, New Discourses: The Transformation of Journalism through the Eyewitness Experiences of User-Generated Content -- Part One: User-Generated Content and Changing Newsroom Practices -- 2 Ethical Use of Eyewitness Content: How Public Service Media Are Rebuilding Trust in News -- 3 The Origins, Development, and Future of the User-Generated Content Team at the BBC -- 4 The Global News Audience: User-Generated Content at a Canadian National Broadcast News Network -- 5 Managing the Impact of Eyewitness Videos of Violence against Racialized Communities on the Public and on Journalists -- 6 France 24 and Storyful: Two Unique Approaches to User-Generated Content in the Newsroom -- Part Two: User-Generated Content and the Changing Landscape of News Outcomes -- 7 From Evidence to Affect: The Different Discursive Functions of User-Generated Content in Coverage of the Arab Spring -- 8 What Hits Me the Hardest ... The Photojournalist Blog: Genres and Practices of Journalistic Witnessing -- 9 User-Generated Ethical Audiences: On the Discursive Significance of the Abject in Amateur Video during the Arab Spring -- Part Three: User-Generated Content Journalism around the World -- 10 User-Generated Content Narrates #ForaTemer on Twitter: Patterns of Citizen Media as Users Document an Anti-impeachment Protest in Brazil -- 11 Making Room for Citizen Journalism against User-Generated Content: Situating South Korea's OhmyNews in the History of Journalism -- 12 Media and User-Generated Content Images during the Terrorist Attacks in Catalonia: Recommendations and Remediation -- 13 What's Trending? The Influence of Twitter and Instagram Agendas on Online News Portals in Ghana -- 14 We Are Not Parasites: Intergroup Differentiation in the User-Generated Content of Nigerian News Media -- Contributors -- Index
Summary "News coverage today is an emerging collaboration between the general public and professional journalists. News consumers have come to expect and demand the unprecedented immediacy of experience and coverage of breaking news offered by photographs, video clips, audio recordings, tweets, commentary: content created by ordinary citizens. The use of user-generated content is a salient aspect of how journalists and news organizations are responding to technological changes in the twenty-first century. Eyewitness Textures examines the far-reaching changes in journalism spurred by the growing importance of user-generated content. Bringing together the voices and experiences of professional journalists and academic researchers from across five continents, this collection explores news production practices, changing skills among editors and journalists, and corporate and newsroom restructuring. Chapters by practitioners collectively reflect the newsroom experiences of major global media organizations, while the academic contributions address issues of industrial transformation, political influence, truth and verification, aesthetics, and ideological implications. Both perspectives combine to deepen our understanding of what constitutes the conditions and creation of good journalism, as well as the implications of how the profession should be taught to future journalists. Tracing recent shifts in journalism practice around the world, Eyewitness Textures examines the creative adaptation and strategies of journalists and news organizations in the face of transformative technological change."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on May 1, 2024)
Subject Journalism -- Technological innovations
User-generated content.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Journalism -- Technological innovations
User-generated content
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Lithgow, Michael, 1965- editor.
Martin, Michèle, 1944- editor.
ISBN 9780228019756
0228019753