Eyewitness Textures: User-Generated Content and Journalism in the Twenty-First Century
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2024), 365 pp.
Contains figures, tables, index
ISBN 978-0-2280-1975-6 (online); 978-0-2280-1923-7 (print)
"News consumers have come to expect and demand the unprecedented immediacy of experience and coverage of breaking news offered by photographs, video clips, audio recordings, tweets, commentary: content created by ordinary citizens. The use of user-generated content is a salient aspect of how journalists and news organizations are responding to technological changes in the twenty-first century. Eyewitness Textures examines the far-reaching changes in journalism spurred by the growing importance of user-generated content. Bringing together the voices and experiences of professional journalists and academic researchers from across five continents, this collection explores news production practices, changing skills among editors and journalists, and corporate and newsroom restructuring. Chapters by practitioners collectively reflect the newsroom experiences of major global media organizations, while the academic contributions address issues of industrial transformation, political influence, truth and verification, aesthetics, and ideological implications. Both perspectives combine to deepen our understanding of what constitutes the conditions and creation of good journalism, as well as the implications of how the profession should be taught to future journalists." (Publisher description)
1 New Voices, New Practices, New Discourses: The Transformation of Journalism through the Eyewitness Experiences of User-Generated Content / Michael Lithgow and Michèle Martin, 3
PART ONE: USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND CHANGING NEWSROOM PRACTICES
2 Ethical Use of Eyewitness Content: How Public Service Media Are Rebuilding Trust in News / Derek Bowler, 21
3 The Origins, Development, and Future of the User-Generated Content Team at the BBC / Natalie Miller, 34
4 The Global News Audience: User-Generated Content at a Canadian National Broadcast News Network / Shauna Rempel, 48
5 Managing the Impact of Eyewitness Videos of Violence against Racialized Communities on the Public and on Journalists / Andree Lau, Asha Tomlinson, Tashauna Reid, Tamika Forrester, Jillian Taylor, and Jorge Barrera, 67
6 France 24 and Storyful: Two Unique Approaches to User-Generated Content in the Newsroom / Michèle Martin and Michael Lithgow, 82
PART TWO: USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NEWS OUTCOMES
7 From Evidence to Affect: The Different Discursive Functions of User-Generated Content in Coverage of the Arab Spring / Michael Lithgow and Michèle Martin, 99
8 What Hits Me the Hardest … The Photojournalist Blog: Genres and Practices of Journalistic Witnessing / Kenzie Burchell and Stephanie Fielding, 127
9 User-Generated Ethical Audiences: On the Discursive Significance of the Abject in Amateur Video during the Arab Spring / Michael Lithgow, 155
PART THREE: USER-GENERATED CONTENT JOURNALISM AROUND THE WORLD
10 User-Generated Content Narrates #ForaTemer on Twitter: Patterns of Citizen Media as Users Document an Anti-impeachment Protest in Brazil / Marcelo Santos, 183
11 Making Room for Citizen Journalism against User-Generated Content: Situating South Korea's OhmyNews in the History of Journalism / Inkyu Kang, 213
12 Media and User-Generated Content Images during the Terrorist Attacks in Catalonia: Recommendations and Remediation / Carolina Escudero, 234
13 What's Trending? The Influence of Twitter and Instagram Agendas on Online News Portals in Ghana / Eugene Brown Nyarko Agyei and Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo, 269
14 We Are Not Parasites: Intergroup Differentiation in the User-Generated Content of Nigerian News Media / Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi and Abiodun Salawu, 287
PART ONE: USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND CHANGING NEWSROOM PRACTICES
2 Ethical Use of Eyewitness Content: How Public Service Media Are Rebuilding Trust in News / Derek Bowler, 21
3 The Origins, Development, and Future of the User-Generated Content Team at the BBC / Natalie Miller, 34
4 The Global News Audience: User-Generated Content at a Canadian National Broadcast News Network / Shauna Rempel, 48
5 Managing the Impact of Eyewitness Videos of Violence against Racialized Communities on the Public and on Journalists / Andree Lau, Asha Tomlinson, Tashauna Reid, Tamika Forrester, Jillian Taylor, and Jorge Barrera, 67
6 France 24 and Storyful: Two Unique Approaches to User-Generated Content in the Newsroom / Michèle Martin and Michael Lithgow, 82
PART TWO: USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NEWS OUTCOMES
7 From Evidence to Affect: The Different Discursive Functions of User-Generated Content in Coverage of the Arab Spring / Michael Lithgow and Michèle Martin, 99
8 What Hits Me the Hardest … The Photojournalist Blog: Genres and Practices of Journalistic Witnessing / Kenzie Burchell and Stephanie Fielding, 127
9 User-Generated Ethical Audiences: On the Discursive Significance of the Abject in Amateur Video during the Arab Spring / Michael Lithgow, 155
PART THREE: USER-GENERATED CONTENT JOURNALISM AROUND THE WORLD
10 User-Generated Content Narrates #ForaTemer on Twitter: Patterns of Citizen Media as Users Document an Anti-impeachment Protest in Brazil / Marcelo Santos, 183
11 Making Room for Citizen Journalism against User-Generated Content: Situating South Korea's OhmyNews in the History of Journalism / Inkyu Kang, 213
12 Media and User-Generated Content Images during the Terrorist Attacks in Catalonia: Recommendations and Remediation / Carolina Escudero, 234
13 What's Trending? The Influence of Twitter and Instagram Agendas on Online News Portals in Ghana / Eugene Brown Nyarko Agyei and Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo, 269
14 We Are Not Parasites: Intergroup Differentiation in the User-Generated Content of Nigerian News Media / Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi and Abiodun Salawu, 287
