Networked journalism it is

Jeff Jarvis comes up with a replacement term for citizen journalism - “Networked journalism”. It gets my vote.

Not only is there considerable baggage around the cit-j term, but the new term could better embrace the underpinning theories that make the ongoing breaking out of the newsgathering process so interesting and exciting.

It’s also a fitting term for what I think will be the next area of online news development - a form of collaborative journalism that doesn’t produce linear, traditional stories, or ask members of the public to behave like journalists, but which looks to hundreds of thousands, millions, of small interactions that, collectively, create a new form of news and information. That will be networked journalism too.

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Networked journalism

Neil Macintosh picks up the fact that Jeff Jarvis has a much better alternative to citizen journalism - ‘Networked

The Obvious? added these pithy words on Jul 05 06 at 2:59 pm

Do you have a link to where he used the phrase Neil?

Euan added these pithy words on Jul 05 06 at 2:57 pm

Stephen Nolan’s comments on ‘citizen journalism’ at the Radio Festival were the most sensible I’ve ever heard..

Aaron added these pithy words on Jul 06 06 at 4:15 pm

Yep, good one. But networked journalism has been in evidence for some time, too, of course. Citizen journalism may be problematic but the two terms can be used differently as, to me, they refer respectively to stories produced collaboratively and stories produced by singularly by a “citizen”. What I dislike most about “citizen journalism” is the way it implies journalism itself is separate from the citizenry, which shouldn’t be true at all - journalism should be separate from the *state*, journalists are citizens, too. I agree about collaborative reporting, but not necessarily with the way Wikinews deploys it.

Robert Andrews added these pithy words on Jul 08 06 at 1:18 pm

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