Citizen Journalism

The Editors: Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism in the Media School, Bournemouth University, U.K. Einar Thorsen is Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Journalism at the University of Teesside, U.K.

Contents: Stuart Allan/Einar Thorsen: Introduction – Stuart Allan: Histories of Citizen Journalism – Melissa Wall: The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq – Sophia B. Liu/Leysia Palen/Jeannette Sutton/Amanda L. Hughes/Sarah Vieweg: Citizen Photojournalism during Crisis Events – Farida Vis: Wikinews Reporting of Hurricane Katrina – Prasun Sonwalkar: Citizen Journalism in India: The Politics of Recognition – Heba Zayyan/Cynthia Carter: Human Rights and Wrongs: Blogging News of Everyday Life in Palestine – Joyce Y. M. Nip: Citizen Journalism in China: The Case of the Wenchuan Earthquake – Einar Thorsen: Blogging the Climate Change Crisis from Antarctica – Gholam Khiabany/Annabelle Sreberny: The Iranian Story: What Citizens? What Journalism? – Olga Guedes Bailey: Citizen Journalism and Child Rights in Brazil – Chang Woo Young: OhmyNews: Citizen Journalism in South Korea – An Nguyen: Globalization, Citizen Journalism, and the Nation State: A Vietnamese Perspective – Nico Carpentier/Ludo De Brabander/Bart Cammaerts: Citizen Journalism and the North Belgian Peace March – Lee Salter: Indymedia and the Law: Issues for Citizen Journalism – Ethan Zuckerman: Citizen Media and the Kenyan Electoral Crisis – Axel Bruns/Jason Wilson/Barry Saunders: Citizen Journalism as Social Networking: Reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election – Tom Fiedler: Crisis Alert: Barack Obama Meets a Citizen Journalist – Stephen D. Reese/Jia Dai: Citizen Journalism in the Global News Arena: China’s New Media Critics – Jane B. Singer/Ian Ashman: User-Generated Content and Journalistic Values – Paul Bradshaw: Wiki Journalism – Mark Deuze: The Future of Citizen Journalism.