Author: TanjaAitamurto
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Crowdfunding in Journalism
In this book chapter “Crowdfunding in Journalism”, published in the International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies (2019), I review crowdfunding as a business model in journalism. You can read the chapter below.
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Crowdsourcing in Journalism
In this book chapter, published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (2019), I examine crowdsourcing in journalism as a knowledge search method. The chapter provides an overview of crowdsourcing in journalism in an array of applications and discuss its benefits and challenges to journalistic norms and practices. You can read the chapter below.
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Crowdsourcing in Open Journalism: Benefits, Challenges, and Value Creation
In this book chapter, “Crowdsourcing in Open Journalism: Benefits, Challenges, and Value Creation,” published in the Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017), pp. 185-193, I examine the role of the online crowds for sourcing information and resources in journalism. I introduce a framework for analyzing the value of crowdsourcing as an open journalistic practice.…
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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.
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Crowdsourcing as a Knowledge Search Method in Digital Journalism: Ruptured Ideals and Blended Responsibility
In this article I examine how crowdsourcing works as a knowledge search method in investigative journalism. I also show crowdsourcing creates ruptures to traditional journalistic norms, practices and ideals. The article was published in Digital Journalism, and you can access it below or here.
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The Role of Crowdfunding as a Business Model in Journalism: A Five-Layered Model of Value Creation
In this book chapter, published in “Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics and Digital Society”, I provide a framework for analyzing crowdfunding as a business model in journalism. The framework helps us examine the value crowdfunding produces to professional journalism. Full citation: Aitamurto, T. (2015) The role of crowdfunding as a business model in journalism: A five-layered…
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Balancing Between Open and Closed: Co–creation in Magazine Journalism
How do crowdsourcing and co-creation affect readers’ relationship to a publication? How do traditional journalistic practices change in an established lifestyle magazine, when open journalistic practices, like crowdsourcing, are deployed? This article addresses those questions, and you can read the article below.