Title Watching the watchdog : bloggers as the fifth estate / Stephen D. Cooper

Published Spokane, Wash. : Marquette Books, [2006] ©2006

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Description 355 pages ; 22 cm Contents Introduction -- Bloggers as media critics -- Accuracy -- Fact-checking descriptions -- Fidelity of quotations -- Authenticity of documents -- Interpretations of statistics or scientific studies -- Trustworthiness of memes -- Framing -- Disputing the frame -- Reframing a set of facts -- Contextualizing -- Agenda-setting and gatekeeping -- Questioning the news judgment -- Setting an alternative agenda -- Journalistic practices -- Newsgathering -- Writing and editing -- Error correction -- The economics of blogs -- Technological facilitation -- Cost/benefit ratio The value chain -- The media marketplace as an ecosystem : symbiosis -- Blogs as alternative media -- Reporting -- Essays -- The blogosphere and the public sphere -- The ideal speech situation -- The spiral of silence -- The quantity question -- The quality question -- Competence -- Cocooning -- Bias -- Quantity and quality, both Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-339) and index Subject Online journalism -- United States. Blogs -- Political aspects -- United States. Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States. Political participation -- Technological innovations -- United States. Mass media -- Objectivity -- United States. SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 -- Blogs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003007728 LC no. 2006018047 ISBN 0922993475 paperback alkaline paper 0922993467 hardcover alkaline paper 9780922993475 9780922993468

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