Citizen participation in news

The process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply

¿Qué es el periodismo participativo?

The article examines Participatory Journalism in the virtual space of Internet where news are published in a different way. The paper analyses Bloggings as a form of journalism and the consequences for Traditional Journalism.El artículo examina el periodismo participativo desde los espacios virtuales de internet donde se publican noticias de manera diferente. El trabajo analiza los bloggings como una forma de hacer trabajo periodístico y lo que conlleva frente al periodismo como tal