About

Welcome to this website, which features my studies about crowdsourcing and collective intelligence in open journalism. My name is Tanja Aitamurto, and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I examine new media technologies for informing, empowering, and connecting people, often in the contexts of digital journalism and storytelling and digital democracy.

In my work I study several aspects of crowdsourcing and collective intelligence: the crowd’s motivation factors to contribute to journalism, the impact of crowdsourcing on traditional journalistic norms and practices, and on the norms and practices in traditional policymaking.