COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Citizen Journalism, Mass Surveillance, Participatory Culture
6 Dec 2017
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An independent person who is not attached to or employed by a media organization who witnesses an event, and t hen provides an account of that event using traditional and new journalistic forms. Terms for thinking critically about how journalism functions: gate-keeping, agenda-setting, framing. Factors to consider when evaluating news and journalism: ownership, advertising, flack , ideology, sources. Whistle-blower: a person who witnesses or collects evidence of corruption, collusion, illegalities, malfeasance, etc. , against an organization, corporation, military or government department, for example, and passes it onto the media or an external public authority for exposure. Difficulty of monetizing digital sources, especially when they started out as free-access. Outsourcing: extending the division of labour outside the company such that parts of the product (in the case of journalism, the writing, editing, or layout) are contracted out to a second or third company.
