I gave a talk yesterday to Dansk Magisterforenings Kommunikationsnetværk (the communication candidates network section of the Danish University Candidates Association) which in advance somewhat incorrectly I had titled "Da brugeren blev journalist" (When the user became a journalist") - more rightly, I probably should have called it "Bruger-involverende kommunikation på net og trends inden for bruger-genereret indhold på nettet" (Participatory journalism & Trends in User-Generated Content Development Online). I have been wanting to look more closely at this field for a while, so it was a great opportunity to catch up on some reading and website harvesting. Here are some links to sites and articles I referred to in the talk - and some I never had the chance to mention or look more closely at, but which look really interesting.

I can warmly recommend Nip's article on "the second phase of participatory journalism", she has some very useful distinctions between different forms of "user-input- and generated journalism". Sadly you cant get it online if your institution dont have a subscription for the Journal of Journalism Studies, without paying for it (which I then did), so if you are a poor researcher or student in need of it, contact me.

Joyce N.M. Nip, 2006: Exploring the Second Phase of Online Journalism

Willis & Bowman, 2003: We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information (especially the section: Rules of Participation)

Steve Outing: The 11 layers of Citizen Journalism (at Poynter.org)

Ilpo Koskinen: Mobile Multimedia and Beyond: Uses and Social Consequences

Tanni Haas, 2005: From “Public Journalism” to the “Public's Journalism”? Rhetoric and reality in the discourse on weblogs

BBC: How mobiles changed the news(video feature)

Did London bombings turn citizen journalists into citizen paparazzi? (USC Annenberg, Online Journalism Review, good links to sites which documented the London Bombings)

Jaron Lanier: DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism (interesting critique of the wiki movement - and I love this quote: The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe that the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we're devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots)

Kelly McBride: The Problem with Citizen Journalism (feature at Poynter.org)

Examples:
Scripting News, September 11, 2001
Lightning Field photo blog, September 11, 2001
Danish Tsuanami portal by unknown user
Politikens Tsunami user-stories site
VG Nett Tsunami section (Verdens Gang Online, Norwegian Newspaper)
The Londonist Group Blog, July 7th
July 7 London Bombings Wikipedia entry
Indymedia.dk
Flix.dk
Blogs on Politics in Denmark Portal
Xtrablog, blog service offered by Danish newspaper, Fyns Stiftstidende
Urbanblog, blog service offered by free newspaper Urban.
Forsvarskommandoens weblog: Hvad synes I om vores film... (The Danish Military Defense Weblog: What do you think about our movie?)
Arlas weblogs
Josh Leo's Vlog: Me and Sen. Edwards (thanks to Andreas Haugstrup and Jon Froda for making me aware of this initiative during their vlog lecture earlier this month. People could write questions to Sen. Edwards, that he would then answer in a vlog)

Hands-on:
Klastrup, 2006: Hvordan man skaber en genbesøgelig weblog

Set up your own wiki: The Danish Wikipedia - and Wiki-how-to in English

Amy Bruckman, 1996: Finding One's Own in Cyberspace (it's old, but still useful to get people started on thinking about the nature of their community)

Amy Jo Kim: Community Building on the Web (Peachpit 2000)
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