Andrea Calderaro CMPF/European University Institute @andreacalderaro Ben Wagner European University Institute @benwagne_r CMPF Summer School 2013 for Journalists and Media Practitioners http://cmpf.eui.eu/training/summer-school-2013.aspx

1. Summer School for Journalists & M edia Practitioners
2013
Andrea Calderaro
CMPF/European University Institute
@andreacalderaro
Ben Wagner
European University Institute
@benwagne_r
Internet-mediated information:
strengths and risks of citizen journalism

2. Outline
 Framing Citizen Journalism
 Opportunities (?)
 Threats of online communications

3. Citizen Journalism ?
Citizen Journalism (2004)
“When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press
tools they have in their possession to inform one another” (Jay Rosen,
2012)
Citizen Media (2001)
Media allowing citizens to speak with their own voice (Clemencia
Rodriguez, 2001)
Media Activism (1999)
Being Active in Spreading grassroots information+

5. Internet-Mediated Communication
 The networked infrastructure of the Internet offers the
opportunity to change traditional models of
communication making easier for people to be active
speakers and to shape new multidirectional information
flows (Lee et al. 2005)
 In politics, people become spreaders of information and
producers of contents easier than in the past (Benkler,
2006)
 The proliferation of participatory media creates a self-
organizing mesh of public communications (Etling & Kelly
2008)

6. Spreading of information over Geography and T

7. ..for Crisis Management

10. Agenda Setting
Agenda Setting is the ability to address the attention of people by
clustering the focus of the media landscape around specific topics
(Cohen 1963)
Tree steps internet-mediated agenda building (Kim & Lee, 2006):
1) Internet-mediated agenda-rippling: citizens spreads an opinion or information
online
2) Agenda diffusion in the Internet: online news or web-sites report the
important agenda in the Internet that in turn leads to spreading the
agenda to more online publics
3) Internet-mediated reversed agenda-setting: traditional media report online
agenda to the public so that the agenda spread to both offline and online
publics.

11. “If journalists read blogs, then the agenda setting is possible”
(Davis 2009: 13)
Professional journalism Vs Citizen Journalism

13. Controlling the content of online journalism?
http://prezi.com/xpxektw7tr4b/controlling-the-content-of-online-journalism/