[ecrea] New Book: Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

New Book
Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives
Edited by Stuart Allan and Einar Thorsen
Published by Peter Lang (New York)

See also: http://citizenjournalism.me/
The site is primarily focussed around promoting the book, but we are 
also inviting people to add their own perspectives or case studies, 
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Blurb

Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives examines the spontaneous 
actions of ordinary people, caught up in extraordinary events, who 
felt compelled to adopt the role of a news reporter. This collection 
draws together 21 original, thought-provoking chapters. It 
investigates citizen journalism in the West, including the United 
States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, as well as its 
development in a variety of other national contexts around the globe, 
including Brazil, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Palestine, South 
Korea, Vietnam, and even Antarctica. It engages with several of the 
most significant topics for this important area of inquiry from 
fresh, challenging perspectives. Its aim is to assess the 
contribution of citizen journalism to crisis reporting, and to 
encourage new forms of dialogue and debate about how it may be 
improved in future.

Contributing authors:
Stuart Allan, Ian Ashman, Paul Bradshaw, Axel Bruns, Bart Cammaerts, 
Nico Carpentier, Cynthia Carter, Jia Dai, Ludo De Brabander, Mark 
Deuze, Tom Fiedler, Olga Guedes Bailey, Amanda L. Hughes, Gholam 
Khiabany, Sophia B. Liu, An Nguyen, Joyce Nip, Leysia Palen, Stephen 
D. Reese, Lee Salter, Barry Saunders, Jane B. Singer, Prasun 
Sonwalkar, Annabelle Sreberny, Jeannette Sutton, Einar Thorsen, Sarah 
Vieweg, Farida Vis, Melissa Wall, Jason Wilson, Chang Woo Young, Heba 
Zayyan, and Ethan Zuckerman.

The book will be launched at the ICA conference in May 2009.

Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism in The Media School, 
Bournemouth University, UK.
Einar Thorsen is Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Journalism at the 
University of Teesside, UK.
Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives is the first book in the 
series Global Crises and the Media edited by Simon Cottle.

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TOC Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives


          o Section One: Eyewitness Crisis Reporting
                + Chapter 1: Histories of Citizen Journalism
                + Chapter 2: The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen 
Journalism and the War in Iraq
                + Chapter 3: Citizen Photojournalism During Crisis Events
                + Chapter 4: Wikinews Reporting of Hurricane Katrina
                + Chapter 5: Citizen Journalism in India: The 
Politics of Recognition
                + Chapter 6: Human Rights and Wrongs: Blogging News 
of Everyday Life in Palestine
                + Chapter 7: Citizen Journalism in China: The Case 
of the Wenchuan Earthquake
                + Chapter 8: Blogging the Climate Change Crisis from 
Antarctica
          o Section Two: Citizen Journalism and Democratic Cultures
                + Chapter 9: The Iranian Story: What Citizens? What 
Journalism?
                + Chapter 10: Citizen Journalism and Child Rights in Brazil
                + Chapter 11: OhmyNews: Citizen Journalism in South Korea
                + Chapter 12: Globalization, Citizen Journalism, and 
the Nation State: A Vietnamese Perspective
                + Chapter 13: Citizen Journalism and the North 
Belgian Peace March
                + Chapter 14: Indymedia and the Law: Issues for 
Citizen Journalism
                + Chapter 15: Citizen Media and the Kenyan Electoral Crisis
                + Chapter 16: Citizen Journalism as Social 
Networking: Reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election
                + Chapter 17: Crisis Alert: Barack Obama Meets a 
Citizen Journalist
          o Section Three: Future Challenges
                + Chapter 18: Citizen Journalism in the Global News 
Arena: China's New Media Critics
                + Chapter 19: User-Generated Content and Journalistic Values
                + Chapter 20: Wiki Journalism
                + Chapter 21: The Future of Citizen Journalism


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