KCB201 Week 10 Lecture (Jason Wilson): Citizen Journalism
The document discusses citizen journalism projects in Australia during the 2007 federal election and Queensland local elections. It defines citizen journalism as an aggregated, hyperlocal, crowdsourced model where citizens report on electoral contests in their local areas. The projects aimed to learn about the audience for citizen journalism and how it differs from traditional journalism. They also sought to understand the work involved in facilitating citizen journalism. This includes content work, editing contributions, networking with other organizations, and providing community support. A case study highlights how a story generated through citizen journalism was later picked up by mainstream media, demonstrating how the projects benefit from relationships with larger outlets.
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KCB201 Week 10 Lecture (Jason Wilson): Citizen Journalism
- 1. “ Citizen journalism” KCB201 Dr Jason Wilson Research Associate [email_address]
- 2. Youdecide2007 Citizen journalism project run during Australian Federal Election Part of ARC Linkage Project - QUT CIF, SBS, OLO, Cisco Systems and Brisbane Institute.
- 3. Youdecide2007 Aggregated, hyperlocal, crowdsourced model of citizen journalism. Small team coordinated citizens reporting on the contest in their electorates. Vital statistics - 2000+ registered users, 230+ submitted articles from 50+ electorates.
- 5. Youdecide2007 Rationale: finding out about the audience base for cit j; relationships between online independent media and MSM Importantly - what does the work of facilitating citizen journalism entail? How does it differ from traditional journalism?
- 6. Queensland Decides Queensland local government elections A project that aimed to learn the lessons from youdecide2007 Similar “aggregated-hyperlocal” structure, but simplified submission
- 7. Preditor” From Miller: “new media employees who perform both production and editorial roles. [This is] an emblem of the shift toward media industries as content producing and organizing, rather than the production of new and original cultural works.”
- 8. 4 kinds of preditor labour in citizen journalism
- 9. Content work Editing user contributions to meet legal/regulatory and quality requirements. Making news content to guarantee content flows, provide models of practice, and to draw users. [chart]
- 10. Networking Making links with existing news channels, organisations and colleagues. Pushing out and pulling in content in a networked news environment .
- 11. Community work Providing users with training, site-specific information and mediation . Providing both structural and personal solutions for users’ needs Cultivating “super-contributors”.
- 12. Tech work On-site tech work (CMS, web design) Off-site tech work (Content, networking and community work using other apps) Meta-tech wor
- 13. Implications Some elements of trad journalistic work, some new elements. Implications for organisations moving to harness UGC, independent initiatives, but also journalism education. Implies less competitive, more collegial and community-oriented practices.
- 14. Case study from youdecide2007 - “Crategate” Interview with Peter Lindsay (Liberal Party MP) Pushing through Labor Party contacts, resulted in question in parliament Uptake from mainstream media “ Meta-story”
- 15. Crategate lessons Citizen journalism initiatives need MSM exposure, so collaborative relationships with MSM outlets are beneficial. MSM increasingly benefit from the closeness of citjs to their subjects, and will follow their lead when stories overlap with their news values. The production of news content is now a distributed activity, and news-generating capacity is now embedded in a range of spaces.