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Is anyone out there?: Assessing Swedish citizen-generated community journalism
Karlstad university, Sweden.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Media and Journalism. (LNUC Intermedial and multimodal studies, IMS)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2017-1117
2015 (English)In: Community journalism midst media revolution / [ed] Robinson, Sue, Routledge, 2015, p. 52-68Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this study, situated in Sweden, citizen community journalism in 290 municipalities is evaluated. The results reveal that there are very few cases of citizen journalism at a community level, and that the existing citizen journalists focus on business news, entertainment and sports. When sources are used, they are few and originate from social institutions such as business, media, authorities and politics rather than citizens. Furthermore, there are only a few occasions when local authorities are included at all, even less so scrutinised, in the news stories. All in all, the study indicates that Swedish citizen community journalism has trouble either providing information that maintains the community or being the watchdog of that community.

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Routledge, 2015. p. 52-68
Keywords [en]
Citizen journalism; Community journalism; Content analysis; Online media; Sweden
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Media and Communication Studies
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Media Studies and Journalism
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-40500ISBN: 9781138811065 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-40500DiVA, id: diva2:790977
Available from: 2015-02-26 Created: 2015-02-26 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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