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[Commlist] New book: Eyewitness Textures: User-Generated Content & Journalism in the 21st Century

Fri Nov 03 13:21:41 GMT 2023





*NEW PUBLICATION*

We are pleased to announce the publication of Eyewitness Textures: User-Generated Content & Journalism in the 21st Century <https://www.mqup.ca/eyewitness-textures-products-9780228019237.php>, by McGill-Queen's University Press (edited by Michael Lithgow and Michèle Martin). Eyewitness Textures offers a collection of papers exploring the important and far-reaching changes taking place in professional journalism in connection with user-generated digital content.

Description

Bringing together the voices and experiences of professional journalists and academic researchers from across five continents, this collection explores news production practices, changing skills among editors and journalists, and corporate and newsroom restructuring. Chapters by practitioners collectively reflect the newsroom experiences of major global media organizations, while the academic contributions address issues of industrial transformation, political influence, truth and verification, aesthetics, and ideological implications. Both perspectives combine to deepen our understanding of what constitutes the conditions and creation of good journalism, as well as the implications of how the profession should be taught to future journalists.

Review

“This book explores the breadth of new dimensions crucial to understanding the implications of user-generated content today. While this kind of content has become commonplace, the blurred distinctions between it and citizen witnessing, or between witnessing in general and the processes of publication, are not easily resolved. The global case studies and dialogues in Eyewitness Textures constitute a particularly thoughtful and enriching discussion that moves beyond the familiar accounts of user-generated content we are so used to hearing.” Scott A. Eldridge II, University of Groningen and author of Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field

Table of Contents

Prologue: Truth and Technology in the Age of Digital Witnessing xi
Lilie Chouliaraki

1 New Voices, New Practices, New Discourses: The Transformation of Journalism through the Eyewitness Experiences of User-Generated Content 3 Michael Lithgow and Michèle Martin

Part One: User-Generated Content and Changing Newsroom Practices

2 Ethical Use of Eyewitness Content: How Public Service Media Are Rebuilding Trust in News
Derek Bowler

3 The Origins, Development, and Future of the User-Generated Content Team at the BBC
Natalie Miller

4 The Global News Audience: User-Generated Content at a Canadian National Broadcast News Network Shauna Rempel

5 Managing the Impact of Eyewitness Videos of Violence against Racialized Communities on the Public and on Journalists, Andree Lau, Asha Tomlinson, Tashauna Reid,Tamika Forrester, Jillian Taylor, and Jorge Barrera

6 France 24 and Storyful: Two Unique Approaches to User-Generated Content in the Newsroom
Michèle Martin and Michael Lithgow

Part Two: User-Generated Content and the Changing Landscape of News Outcomes

7 From Evidence to Affect: The Different Discursive Functions of User-Generated Content in Coverage of the Arab Spring 99 Michael Lithgow and Michèle Martin

8 What Hits Me the Hardest ... The Photojournalist Blog: Genres and Practices of Journalistic Witnessing
Kenzie Burchell and Stephanie Fielding

9 User-Generated Ethical Audiences: On the Discursive Significance of the Abject in Amateur Video
during the Arab Spring, Michael Lithgow

Part Three: User-Generated Content Journalism around the World

10 User-Generated Content Narrates #ForaTemer on Twitter: Patterns of Citizen Media as Users Document an Anti-impeachment Protest in Brazil, Marcelo Santos

11 Making Room for Citizen Journalism against User-Generated Content: Situating South Korea’s OhmyNews in the History of Journalism, Inkyu Kang

12 Media and User-Generated Content Images during the Terrorist Attacks in Catalonia: Recommendations and Remediation, Carolina Escudero

13 What’s Trending? The Influence of Twitter and Instagram Agendas on Online News Portals in Ghana Eugene Brown Nyarko Agyei and Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo

14 We Are Not Parasites: Intergroup Differentiation in the User-Generated Content of Nigerian News Media Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi and Abiodun Salawu

Link to Publisher's Website

https://www.mqup.ca/eyewitness-textures-products-9780228019237.php <https://www.mqup.ca/eyewitness-textures-products-9780228019237.php>

For inquiries, please contact: michael[dot]lithgow[at]athabascau[dot]ca



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