This week's readings - journalism

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When you are finished with the seminar 3 assignment, this is what you should read to prepare for this week's lecture on "Participatory culture" and the seminar 4 assignment (next week):

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The topic of this week's both lectures is journalism and citizen media. These are the readings:

1) Benkler (2006), "The wealth of networks"; "The trouble with mass media" (chapter 6)

2) Witt (2006), "Constructing a framework to enable an open source reinvention of journalism".

3) Leetaru (2009), "New media vs. old media"

4) Gillmor (2006), "We are all reporters now" (BBC News)

Notes:

- Both text 2 and 3 come from the online (peer-reviewed) journal "First Monday" which publishes scholarly papers about the Internet (internet culture, the neworked information economy etc.).