Communication Studies: Grassroots Journalism

Stuart Allan introduces the key concept of 'citizen witnessing' in order to rethink familiar assumptions underlying traditional distinctions between the 'amateur' and the 'professional' journalist.

Forde's extensive 10 year study examines the journalistic practices at work in independent and community news organisations.

The book introduces the concept of connective journalism, clarifying the role of creating and sharing stories online as a key precursor to collective and connective political action.

Public Journalism 2.0 examines the ways that civic or public journalism is evolving, especially as audience-created content, sometimes referred to as citizen journalism or participatory journalism,becomes increasingly prominent in contemporary media.

This book provides students and researchers with an understanding of the multiple methods applied to the study of community journalism.

. Deeply researched and eloquently written, Smoking Typewriters captures all the youthful idealism and vibrant tumult of the 1960s as it delivers a brilliant reappraisal of the origins and development of the New Left rebellion.

Rodríguez shows that unarmed civilian communities cornered by armed conflict can use community media to repair torn social fabrics, reconstruct eroded bonds, reclaim public spaces, resolve conflict, and sow the seeds of peace and stability.

This book explores the processes of women's and feminist media production in the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship.

reveals the process by which individuals at the margins of the labour market and excluded from the welfare state communicate to gain recognition in the political sphere.

Examines how members of the community, using a reporting tool familiar to that community, and taking into account the values, interests and worldviews of that community, covers news, is most likely to reflect the community's opinions.

#iranelection reveals the new online ecology of social protest and offers a prehistory, of sorts, of the uses of hashtags and trending topics, selfies and avatar activism, and citizen journalism and YouTube mashups.

This book shows that it is time to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers people, and address the urgent question of how technology should be governed to support the rights and liberties of users around the world.