Purpose When a concept is diffusely defined or, as this article argues,“taken for granted”, it
becomes very difficult to track such concept on the literature and have some continuity as …

This article reviews the state of research on citizen journalism over the past decade. The key
areas covered include the ways traditional journalism has responded to this phenomenon …

REFERENCES Page 1 Aguilar, Filomeno V., Meynardo P. Mendoza, and Anne Lan K.
Candelaria. 2014. “Kee** the State at Bay: The Killing of Journalists in the Philippines, 1998 …

Amid growing difficulties for professionals generally, media workers in particular are
negotiating the increasingly contested boundary space between producers and users in the …

This article explores implications of the transition to an environment in which users have
become secondary gatekeepers of the content published on media websites. This expanded …

How do people make sense of, and deal with, a changing media landscape perceived to be
filled with misinformation and fake news? To answer this, we draw upon data from seventy …

What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting? This question goes to the heart
of current debates about citizen journalism, one of the most challenging issues confronting …

Social media are increasingly being used as sources in mainstream news coverage. Yet,
while the research so far has focused mainly on the use of social media in particular …

2 MEDIA CONVERGENCE video circulated through blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and
Wikipedia. But these events also played out through longer-established industries such as …

With the emergence and rapid acceptance of online news come new and varied
opportunities for user engagement with content, along with alternative metrics for capturing …