Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (Digital Formations)
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820474320 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 330 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He is General Editor of M/C – Media and Culture (media-culture). The Author: Axel Bruns teaches in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia
Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, this book illustrates how gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has enabled millions of users around the world to participate in the online news publishing process.. The book investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites, ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology news site Slashdot, and further to the multitude of W
"A socialists view on social media" according to MineCraftMom. Bruns, shows a typical left wing academic approach in his evaluation of new media. His world view is predictable and one you would expect from a left wing academic with questionable real time life experience. Reality does not appear to be a factor in his interpretation of citizen journalism and the actual tangible outcomes for society. His theories are based on the idea that social media is in fact an unquestionable good for the middle class. He fails to deliver theories based on a well rounded explorat
Strange new terms - but as Axel Bruns shows in this impressive account of online news media, the underlying issues remain very much as Herbert Gans described them a generation ago. Are news barons paying notice? Of course not. Axel Bruns shows us why and how we all need to learn the tune.- (John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology) -Ever wondered why people love to comment on the news? Axel Bruns describes in detail how, in the Internet age, this 'gatewatching' passion is changing the media landscape. Will bloggers and open news contributors revolutionize our understanding of news production? You bet they will.- (Geert Lovink, Author of 'Dark Fiber' and 'My First Recession')" . Will bloggers and open news contributors revolutionize our understanding of news production? You bet they will.-It's journalism, Jim, but not as we know it. Are news barons paying notice? Of course not. 'Gatewatching', 'multiperspectival editing' the 'produser'. In a democracy ever