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Witnessing images of extreme violence: A psychological study of journalists in the newsroom
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Open, volume 5, issue 8 (2014), 7 pp.
"Objective: User Generated Content – photos and videos submitted to newsrooms by the public – has become a prominent source of information for news organisations. Journalists working with uncensored material can frequently witness disturbing images for prolonged periods. How this might affect th
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Online Comment Moderation: Emerging Best Practices
Darmstadt: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 77 pp.
"The news organisations that we spoke to could be broadly divided into two camps with regards to their attitudes to online comments: there are those who embrace comments from users, often as part of a wider strategy of involving their readers in their publication, and there are those who see them as
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2013 Social Media Guidebook
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2013), 153 pp.
Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study
Washington, DC: Internews; Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 40 pp.
"The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and user-generated content — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Due to the unique pressures in co
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Amateur Media: Social, Culturual and Legal Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2012), xv, 238 pp.
"This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields
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"La web 2.0 ha llegado también a las televisiones. El contenido generado por los usuarios ha crecido en todas las cadenas del mundo. Sin embargo, no se trata todavía de una práctica extendida. La UNESCO quiere impulsar este fenómeno a través de esta guía. En ella, se recogen orientaciones para
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Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers
Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xi, 227 pp.
"This book is based on a collaborative research project by a team of journalism scholars from Europe, North America and Israel. It provides insights into how journalists at websites affiliated with leading national newspapers in ten Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclu
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Guidelines for Broadcasters on Promoting User-Generated Content and Media and Information Literacy
London; Paris: Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA); UNESCO (2009), 58 pp.
"In 2008, the CBA and UNESCO published the results of a survey of 72 Commonwealth broadcasters which looked at the nature of user-generated content (UGC). It considered what use they make of UGC and their involvement in promoting media and information literacy (MIL). The survey identified a lack of
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Online Newsgathering: Research and Reporting for Journalism
Burlington, Mass. et al.: Focal Press (2008), xii, 189 pp.
"Chapter 1 sets the scene for this book, looking in a broad-brush way at how the Internet and related technologies have changed journalism and media. It notes how audiences are fragmenting in an environment of excess information, and considers the boom in online advertising relative to mainstream me
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Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking
Paris: OECD (2007), 124 pp.
"Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in worldwid
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