User-Generated Content and Journalism in the Twenty-First Century
Using the press coverage of the Franco-Prussian war as a starting point, Michle Martin's Images at War examines nineteenth-century illustrated periodicals published in France, Germany, England, and Canada (with references also to Italy and th...
This book explores the breadth of new dimensions crucial to understanding the implications of user-generated content today. While this kind of content has become commonplace, the blurred distinctions between it and citizen witnessing, or between witnessing in general and the processes of publication, are not easily resolved. The global case studies and dialogues in Eyewitness Textures constitute a particularly thoughtful and enriching discussion that moves beyond the familiar accounts of user-generated content we are so used to hearing. Scott A. Eldridge II, University of Groningen and author of Online Journalism from the Periphery: Interloper Media and the Journalistic Field "User-generated content is a hot-button issue in the field of journalism, and this earnest essay collection takes on several of its complexities." Choice
Michael Lithgow is associate professor of communication studies at Athabasca University. Michle Martin is professor emerita in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.