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“Citizen journalism”KCB201
Dr Jason WilsonResearch Associate
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Youdecide2007
‒ Citizen journalism project run during Australian Federal Election
‒ Part of ARC Linkage Project - QUT CIF, SBS, OLO, Cisco Systems and Brisbane Institute.
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Youdecide2007
‒ Aggregated, hyperlocal, crowdsourced model of citizen journalism.
‒ Small team coordinated citizens reporting on the contest in their electorates.
‒ Vital statistics - 2000+ registered users, 230+ submitted articles from 50+ electorates.
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Youdecide2007
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‒ Rationale: finding out about the audience base for cit j; relationships between online independent media and MSM
‒ Importantly - what does the work of facilitating citizen journalism entail? How does it differ from traditional journalism?
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Queensland Decides
‒ Queensland local government elections
‒ A project that aimed to learn the lessons from youdecide2007
‒ Similar “aggregated-hyperlocal” structure, but simplified submission
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Preditor”
‒ From Miller: “new media employees who perform both production and editorial roles. [This is] an emblem of the shift toward media industries as content producing and organizing, rather than the production of new and original cultural works.”
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4 kinds of preditor labour in citizen journalism
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Content work
‒ Editing user contributions to meet legal/regulatory and quality requirements.
‒ Making news content to guarantee content flows, provide models of practice, and to draw users.
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Networking
‒ Making links with existing news channels, organisations and colleagues.
‒ Pushing out and pulling in content in a networked news environment.
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Community work
‒ Providing users with training, site-specific information and mediation.
‒ Providing both structural and personal solutions for users’ needs
‒ Cultivating “super-contributors”.
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Tech work
‒ On-site tech work (CMS, web design)
‒ Off-site tech work (Content, networking and community work using other apps)
‒ Meta-tech wor
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Implications
‒ Some elements of trad journalistic work, some new elements.
‒ Implications for organisations moving to harness UGC, independent initiatives, but also journalism education.
‒ Implies less competitive, more collegial and community-oriented practices.
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Case study from youdecide2007 - “Crategate”
‒ Interview with Peter Lindsay (Liberal Party MP)
‒ Pushing through Labor Party contacts, resulted in question in parliament
‒ Uptake from mainstream media
‒ “Meta-story”
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Crategate lessons
‒ Citizen journalism initiatives need MSM exposure, so collaborative relationships with MSM outlets are beneficial.
‒ MSM increasingly benefit from the closeness of citjs to their subjects, and will follow their lead when stories overlap with their news values.
‒ The production of news content is now a distributed activity, and news-generating capacity is now embedded in a range of spaces.
