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Overview
Gatewatching, Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. The book investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites, ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology news site Slashdot, and further to the multitude of Weblogs that have emerged in recent years. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, this book illustrates how gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has enabled millions of users around the world to participate in the online news publishing process.Synopsis
Bruns (creative industries, Queensland U. of Technology in Brisbane, Australia) presents a comprehensive study of collaborative online news production, and introduces the practice of gatewatching, as opposed to gatekeeping. He describes gatekeeping as a regime of control over what content is allowed to emerge in print and broadcast media, and gatewatching as "the observation of the output gates of news publications and other sources, in order to identify important material as it becomes available." Topics include participatory journalism and multiperspectival news, case studies from Slashdot, Indymedia and Wikipedia, P2P journalism, blogs, content sharing, news communities and news ownership, and gatewatching as a semantic metadata generation. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR