We the media - grassroots journalism by the people, for the people

By Dan Gillmor. 2006

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How Much Do They Think It Affects Them and Whom Do They Believe?: Comparing the Third-Person Effect and Credibility of Blogs and Traditional Media (2007, background): “That is, the emergence of blogs as a citizen journalist device has prompted some news organizations to adopt this commentary, ‘‘diary-like’’ approach to news and integrate blogs in their online offerings (Gillmor, 2004).”
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature (2016, background): “Blogs began in the mid-1990s and were considered ubiquitous by the mid-2000s (Gillmor, 2006; Hank, 2011; Lenhart & Fox, 2006; Rainie, 2005).”
Digital Network Repertoires and Organizational Hybridity (2007, background): “By the end of the year, the Dean group on Meetup had 140,000 members, there were 800 meetings scheduled for the month of December (Wolf, 2004), and around 2,000 comments a day were being posted to the official Dean blog (Gillmor, 2004, p. 97; McCullagh, 2004).”
Identifying the influential bloggers in a community (2008, background): “0 [23]) has created online media that turn the former mass information consumers to the present information producers [9].”
Is There an Elite Hold? Traditional Media to Social Media Agenda Setting Influence in Blog Networks (2009, background): “The tendency for traditional media to erect walled gardens (Singer, 2005) and the popular perception that citizen media platforms provide the average citizen greater opportunity to be a news source (Gillmor, 2004; Bowman & Willis, 2003) will both be tested in this study.”
The Journalist Behind the News: Credibility of Straight, Collaborative, Opinionated, and Blogged “News” (2010, background): “These proxies for face-to-face communication are fueling a revolution not only in the way people connect with each other but also in how they get their news and what they expect from it (Gillmor, 2004).”
Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions (2014, background): “0 technologies, often referred to as social media, offer broad opportunities for individuals to participate in the observation, filtering, distribution and interpretation of news (Gillmor, 2004).”
We Predict a Riot?Public Order Policing, New Media Environments and the Rise of the Citizen Journalist (2010, unknown): “The technological ability of citizens to generate news has been accompanied by an equally important attitudinal shift as a new generation of news producers and consumers comes of age: where once citizens were content to be told what the news is, they are now increasingly interested in being part of ”
Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture (2006, background): “One could think of pirate radio stations, small-scale print magazines, local news-papers and radio stations, since the 1980s community-based bulletin board systems (BBS) and Usenet news-groups on the Internet, and later on a wide range of genres on the Web such as community portal sites, group…”
Social news, citizen journalism and democracy (2009, background): “For example, Dan Gillmor paints a compelling portrait of citizen journalism as a grassroots movement whose historical antecedents include Tom Paine and the revolutionary pamphleteers (Gillmor, 2006).”
Groups Formation and Operations in the Web 2.0 Environment and Social Networks (2008, background): “Murray-Buechner (2006) listed it as one of the 25 sites “we cannot live without” and labelled it as a “real Web wonder.” For all its uses, it is a typical Web 2.0 application done for people by people ( Gillmor 2006 ).”