REVIEW: Opportunities, tensions in participatory journalism

Pradip Ninan Thomas

doi:10.24135/pjr.v18i2.280

Pradip Ninan Thomas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v18i2.280

Keywords: Alternative media, Interviews, Interviewing, Journalism practice, Le Monde, Participatory journalism, Professional practice, The Guardian, Technology

Abstract

Review of: Participatory Journalism: Guarding open gates at online newspapers, edited by Jane Singer, Alfred Hermida, David Domingo, Ari Heinonen, Steve Paulussen, Thorsten Quandt, Zvi Reich, and Marina Vujnovic. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781444332278 (pbk)

The title of this book reflects the anxiety facing ‘professional’ journalists and ‘mainstream’ journalism today as a variety of personal and networking technologies facilitate the expansion of ‘produsage’ as an ethic and practice, and as the means and end of journalism. This book explores that key question—when people formerly known as the ‘audience’ engage in the making of journalism, what does this mean to the practice and the practitioners of ‘professional’ journalism?

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