User-generated content and the changing news cycle
Quinn, Stephen and Quinn-Allan, Deirdre 2006, User-generated content and the changing news cycle, Australian journalism review, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 57-70.
Blogs represent a major development in media consumption and practice. The Pew Center in the United States reported in mid-2005 that about eight million Americans had created blogs and 32 million read them. That's equivalent to two-thirds the number of people who read a daily newspaper during a week, a challenging giguew in the context of dwindling circulations. Blogs represent the start of the 'personal media' revolution, but are only the tip of a range of new media developments. This paper describes the blog phenomenon and notes its arrival via a series of major new stories. It suggests we are seeing the emergence of a new news cycle, as blogs and other internet-based media usurp broadcast's role in breaking news. The paper describes a range of emerging digital journalism forms that make up the 'personal media' revolution. These include blogs delivered via mobile phones (moblogs); video-based blogs (v-logs); newspapers' use of podcasting to deliver content; and wikis, or peer-generated online content. The media's reaction to this new form of content is described, and the other concludes by looking at the forces driving this new form of journalism.
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