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FROM GATEKEEPING TO GATEWATCHING The First Wave of Citizen Media
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | A number of scholars have argued that the daily chroniclers and pamphleteers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries can be regarded as the first citizen journalists; Michael Schudson, for instance, suggests that “Joseph Addison in The Spectator of 1710 was essentially a blogger” (2013: 199). Modernday citizen journalism, however, finally emerged in the midto late 1990s, and the establishment of the first Independent Media Center (IMC) as an alternative news outlet to cover the 1999 World Trade Organisation summit in Seattle is commonly seen as its breakthrough moment: |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.peterlang.com/downloadpdf/9781433143984/chapter-02.xhtml.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
