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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 5-18Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0267323115614196
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Citizen journalism; de-professionalisation; democracy; digital media; journalism; trust
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The article reflects on contemporary processes of de-professionalisation of journalism, its consequences for democratic processes and challenges to citizen journalism. It is argued that both the dilemmas of mainstream journalism and the emergence of citizen journalism are consequences of an array of evolving factors having to do with complex transformations in the media landscape and its industries, professional and leisured' content creation, employment and technologies, shifting patterns of media use among citizens, as well as broader permutations in social and cultural patterns. In the first section, we briefly address the long-term historical decline of professional journalism; in the second section, we look at some of the attributes of the current crisis; in the third section, we probe some of the key features of what has come to be called citizen journalism, a development that is contradictorily entwined with both the de-professionalisation and the democratisation of journalism. In the conclusion, we turn our eye to some paths for future research.
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