Month: October 2015
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Motivation Factors in Crowdsourced Journalism: Social Impact, Social Change, and Peer Learning
What drivers the crowd in crowdsourced journalism? An ideal about a better society. The findings in my article, published in the International Journal of Communication, show that the crowd contributes voluntarily to journalism because they want to mitigate power and knowledge asymmetries. They also want to deliberate with their peers, and learn from them. Read…
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The impact of crowdfunding on journalism: Case study of Spot.Us, a platform for community-funded reporting
This article examines the impact of crowdfunding on journalism, drawing on data from an early crowdfunding site called Spot.Us. This was to my knowledge the first academic article published about crowdfunding in journalism.