Jane’s Convergent Journalism Blog

6 recent, online forms of citizen journalism included in this timeline are from Unpacking my Library, “Actually Existing” Citizen Journalism Projects and Typologies

Personal homepages
Indymedia: a global collective of independent media organisations
Blogs
Hyperlocal Citizens Journalism eg US sites The Northwest Voice and Muncie Free Press
Media Citizens Journalism eg CNN citizen journalism site CNN Exchange
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According to Wikipedia, a video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast ) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demandvideo clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures.
What is Vodcasting? explains how vodcasting uses similar technology to podcasting (RSS feeds) to get internet video onto your computer or media player.
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Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production by Alex Bruns
“Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production provides the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. It investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology news site Slashdot and further to the multitude of […]

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The sheer volume of bloggers means that blogging software is constantly being developed and improved, especially when it’s open source software like Wordpress (that runs this blog via Edublogs). As a result, blogs are easy to set up, post to, manage and customise. If you have your own domain and web hosting, many web hosting […]

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