Overview
- Provides a significant contribution to the literature on digital/participatory journalism and knowledge creation
- Presents an ethnographic account of knowledge-related newsroom routines and journalist/user competences
- Addresses challenges confronting participatory models of journalism amid doubts about the ‘added value’ of online discussion for both journalism and democracy
- Suggests a novel way of theorising online discussion moderation as front-line professional knowledge work
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKP)
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Book Title: Discussing the News
Book Subtitle: The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public
Authors: Simon Smith
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52965-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52964-6Published: 10 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85025-2Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52965-3Published: 30 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5805
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 151
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Sociology, Journalism, Media Research, Social Media, Media and Communication, Ethnography