Conversation through journalism

Searching for organizing principles of public and citizen journalism

Bibliographic Data

ID7477408
AuthorsSeong-Jae Min (Pace University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume17
Issue5
Pages567-582
Publication date2015-03-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884915571298
OpenAlexW2332752183
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited40

This article reviews the public and citizen journalism movements of recent years and offers some perspectives on how the current and future journalism can function to benefit democratic public life. A major argument of this article is that ‘conversation’ defines news as a process of negotiated social meaning and that it should be the organizing principle of today’s journalism. It is also argued that traditional journalistic principles such as objectivity and distance may no longer be useful to today’s citizen journalism and that we see a rise of new journalistic principles such as interactivity and transparency. Finally, borrowing from deliberative democracy literature, a bottom-up flow model to connect citizen and public journalism is discussed

Argument (complex analysis · Citizen journalism · Conversation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Epistemology · Interactivity · Journalism · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Multimedia · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Transparency (behavior · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Media and Politics · Law

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