Literature Referals and other background literature:
Benkler, Yochai ‘Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere’ in: The Wealth of Networks:How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. PDF
Blood, Rebecca ed. We’ve got Blog (Basic Books 2002)
Bowman & Willis We Media [PDF]
Burns, Axel, Gatewatching, Not Gatekeeping: Collaborative Online News [PDF]
Cardoso, Gustavo The Media in the Network Society: Browsing, News, Filters and Citizenship [Amazon]
Couldry Nick, Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World [Amazon]
De Waal, Martijn From Media Landscape to Media Ecology. The Cultural Implications of Web 2.0 in Open 14 [HTML]
Deuze, Mark The Web and its Journalisms: Considering the Consequences of Different Types of Newsmedia Online New Media & Society, Vol. 5, No. 2, 203-230 [abstract]
Deuze, Mark __What is multimedia journalism ?__ Journalism Studies [html]
Deuze, Mark Journalism in Media Work [PDF]
Enli Gunn Sara Redefining Public Service Broadcasting in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 105-120 (2008) [abstract]
Gilmlmor, Dan ‘Professional Journalists Join the Conversation’ in: We the Media (O’Reilly 2004)
Jenkins, Henry Convergence Culture [Amazon]
Flew, Terry (2007) A Citizen Journalism Primer In Proceedings Communications Policy Research Forum 2007, University of Technology Sydney. [PDF]
Keen, Andrew Web 2.0 The second generation of the Internet has arrived. It’s worse than you think in The Weekly Standard [html]
Keen, Andrew The Cult of the Amateur (Doubleday, 2007)
Lanier, Jaron DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism in Edge [html]
Leman Nicholas __Amateur Hour. Journalism without Journalists __in: The New Yorker [html]
Lovink, Geert __Nihilism and the News. Blogging as a Mental Condition __ in Open 14 [HTML]
Lowrey, W. & Mackay, J.B. (2008). Journalism and blogging: A test of a model of occupational competition. Journalism Practice, 2, p. 64-81.
Ludlow, Peter The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse [Amazon]
Massing, Michael __The end of News?__ in: The New York Review of Books [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18516 | html]
Massing, Michael The Press: The Enemy Within in: The New York Review of Books [html]
Mindich, David Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News
Nieman Reports vol 59 no 4 winter 2005: Citizen Journalism [pdf]
Participatory Media Guidebook [wiki]
Pew Institute Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers [HTML]
Project for Excellence in News Media State of the Media 2006 [html]
Project for Excellence in Journalism Digital Journalism in State of the News Media 2007 [html]
Reporters without Borders Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents [html]
Rheingold, Howard Using Participatory Media and Public Voice to Encourage Civic Engagement [pdf]
Sanger, Larry WHO SAYS WE KNOW On the New Politics of Knowledge [HTML]
Schaffer, Jan Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism [pdf]
Stephenson, Karen The Quantum Theory of Trust [interview]
Sunstein, Cass Republic 2.0 (Princeton University Press, 2007)
Wilson, Chris The Wisdom of the Chaperones [html]