Discussing the News : The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public

• Main Author: Smith, Simon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Communication.; Social media.; Ethnography.; Mass media.; Social sciences in mass media.; Journalism.; Sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319529653
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52965-3
• Physical Description: XIII, 151 p. 16 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.

This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a participatory media environment - the administration (moderation) of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in comments below their articles. The author argues that it is precisely because both roles are treated as periphe...