期刊名称：WPCC - Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
印刷版ISSN：1744-6708
电子版ISSN：1744-6716
出版年度：2008
卷号：5
期号：02
出版社：University of Westminster
摘要：The phenomenon of citizen journalism and the wider trend of user generated content are creating
new challenges and opportunities for mainstream media. Traditional news media, like
newspapers, tend to show increasing interest in the ways in which user generated content can be
integrated into the professional news making process. Yet, scarce but growing research on
participatory journalism suggests that the adoption of user generated content in the newsroom is
hindered by several contextual factors on different levels of the newsroom organisation. By
taking a social constructivist approach to examine the development of participatory journalism,
we have tried to gain a better understanding of what these factors are and how they shape the
adoption of user generated content. Empirical evidence was sought through twenty semistructured
interviews with the newsroom staff of two Belgian newspapers and one local
community website. One of our main conclusions is that participatory journalism is developing
rather sluggishly; however this is often due to newsroom structures, work routines and
professional beliefs rather than unwillingness among professionals to open up the news
production process to user contributions.
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