Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media aims to define and advance understanding of citizen
media, an emerging academic field located at the interface between different disciplines …

This article realigns the field of journalism studies to acknowledge within itself the multiple
dimensions of social life and, as well, to provide greater clarity on the social and cultural …

The nature of digital media challenges the explanatory power of effects theories that rest on
a transmission model of communication. As essentially linear conceptualizations reliant on …

authoritative collection of essays that report on and address the significant issues and focal
debates shaping the innovative field of digital journalism studies. In the short time this field …

The media can play a paramount role in exposing corruption and initiating legal, political
and penal action against it. Different media genres unfold their respective strengths and …

The Internet, Politics, and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil: Peripheral Media offers a new
understanding of the digital media produced from the favelas, urban occupations, and in the …

This chapter discusses the formation and state of digital journalism studies as a field of
research. It provides an overview of the emergence of this field of research and discusses its …

This chapter begins with a closer look at why the value of concepts that were so fruitful in an
analog past has diminished in digital present. It explores how journalism studies scholars …

This chapter demonstrates the citizen media that flourished during that period of popular
unrest conformed to the already existing patterns of unclear ownership, low quality …

This chapter offers a necessary critical overview of citizen journalism in its many forms and
shapes, with a focus on its promises and perils and what it means for the future of news. We …