Jane B. Singer

Norms and the network : journalistic ethics in a shared media space

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:21:56 PDT

The socially responsible existentialist : a normative emphasis for journalists in a new media environment

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:18:00 PDT

Exploring the Political-Economic Factors of Participatory Journalism Views of Online Journalists in Ten Countries

Vujnovic et al. — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:10:27 PDT

Journalism and digital technologies

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:59:46 PDT

Journalism Ethics in a Digital Network

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:54:56 PDT

Participatory Journalism Practices In The Media And Beyond

David Domingo et al. — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:17:55 PDT

This article is a contribution to the debate on audience participation in online media with a twofold aim: (1) making conceptual sense of the phenomenon of participatory journalism in the framework of journalism research, and (2) determining the forms that it is taking in eight European countries and the United States. First, participatory journalism is considered in the context of the historical evolution of public communication. A methodological strategy for systematically analysing citizen participation opportunities in the media is then proposed and applied. A sample of 16 online newspapers offers preliminary data that suggest news organisations are interpreting online user participation mainly as an opportunity for their readers to debate current events, while other stages of the news production process are closed to citizen involvement or controlled by professional journalists when participation is allowed. However, different strategies exist among the studied sample, and contextual factors should be considered in further research.

Shifting Roles, Enduring Values: The Credible Journalist in a Digital Age

Arthur S. Hayes et al. — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:07:10 PDT

When everyone can be a publisher, what distinguishes the journalist? This article considers contemporary challenges to institutional roles in a digital media environment and then turns to three broad journalistic normative values—authenticity, accountability, and autonomy—that affect the credibility of journalists and the content they provide. A set of questions that can help citizens determine the trustworthiness of information available to them emerges from the discussion.

Separate Spaces Discourse About the 2007 Scottish Elections on a National Newspaper Web Site

Jane B. Singer — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:56:11 PDT

In May 2007, Scots voted into office a party and a political leader publicly committed to holding a referendum on independence from Great Britain within four years. This study analyzes nearly forty-eight hundred comments appended to stories on the scotsman.com Web site, offering one of the first detailed looks at user-generated content on a newspaper-affiliated Web site in the context of a national election. It explores the evolving nature of online political community and the ways in which newspapers are accommodating a networked environment in their political coverage, addressing issues of citizen and journalistic engagement within a communal space

Role Call: 2008 Campaign And Election Coverage On The Web Sites Of Leading U.S. Newspapers.

Jane B. Singer — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:45:12 PDT

This study explores how Web sites affiliated with leading U.S. newspapers covered the 2008 campaign and election. It traces changes over a decade in which the Internet moved from the periphery to the center of political, public, and media attention. Although a 2004 study suggested online editors were rethinking their function as information gatekeepers, this study indicates a reassertion of traditional journalistic roles despite an increase in options for user input

Quality Control

Jane B. Singer — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:14:52 PDT

This study of local British newspaper journalists focuses on three aspects of entrenched newsroom culture—news values and norms, work routines and outputs, and occupational roles—to explore the boundaries that journalists see as distinguishing them from outside contributors. Findings suggest they view user-generated content (UGC) from a traditional professional perspective and weigh its benefits in terms of its contribution to the journalism they produce. While most are open to its inclusion on newspaper websites, particularly as a traffic builder and supplemental source of hyperlocal information, they believe UGC can undermine journalistic norms and values unless carefully monitored—a gatekeeping task they fear cannot fit within newsroom routines threatened by resource constraints of increasing severity.

Exploring the Political-Economic Factors Of Participatory Journalism

Marina Vujnovic et al. — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:52:21 PDT

This comparative study of user-generated content (UGC) in 10 Western democracies examines the political economic aspects of citizen participation in online media, as assessed by journalists who work with this content. Drawing on interviews with more than 60 journalists, we explore their perceived economic motivations for an ongoing redefinition of traditional journalistic roles, as UGC becomes an increasingly dominant feature of news websites

Online journalism ethics : traditions and transitions

Jane B. Singer et al. — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:38:43 PDT

Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

Jane B. Singer et al. — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:49:42 PDT

Norms and the Network: Journalism Ethics in a Shared Media Space

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:13:57 PDT

UGC in Digital Newspapers: Participatory Journalism Practices in Europe and the US

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:11:31 PDT

Interactive Ethics: Overlapping Norms of Practitioners and the Public in a Shared Media Space

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:02:37 PDT

Quality Control: Perceptions about User-Generated Content Among Local British Newspaper Journalists

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:51 PDT

Roll Call: 2008 Campaign and Election Coverage on the Websites of Leading U.S. Newspapers

Jane B. Singer — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:54:47 PDT

Political and Civic Engagement

Jane B. Singer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:25:49 PDT

Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions

Jane B. Singer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:59:20 PDT