Journal
MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 691-701Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0163443714527567
Keywords
citizen journalism; user-generated content; new media; social media; Middle East; Syria; Storyful
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This commentary considers citizen journalism emerging from the Syrian Civil War and argues that its usefulness is dependent on an interpreter tier of user-generated media analysts. In contrast to discourse celebrating more direct forms of citizen journalism, the piece emphasizes the importance of intermediary layers of meaning-making as the means by which complex fields of amateur information can be made intelligible. This interpreter tier, although often ignored in popular and scholarly discourse, takes on an increasingly important function as mainstream sources must increasingly rely on citizen materials produced in far off places.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available