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

*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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