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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - News in the community?
T2 - investigating the new spaces of news production/consumption
AU - Dickens, Luke
AU - Couldry, Nick
AU - Fotopoulou, Aristea
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This article examines the emergence of new, inter-local spaces of news production and consumption, drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with community reporters trained by a community reporter organisation based in the north of England. Practices of news production and content generation are focused on people's own communities and they are underpinned by an ethos of production, which is grounded in a critical consumption of news and collective processes of skill acquisition. Through an analysis of motivations and practices, we account for the values that sustain community reporter communities and discuss how such practices, while emerging from the place of local community, also extend across wider communities of interest. It is suggested that an evolving practice of skill sharing and mutual recognition could potentially stimulate the regrowth of democratic values.
AB - This article examines the emergence of new, inter-local spaces of news production and consumption, drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with community reporters trained by a community reporter organisation based in the north of England. Practices of news production and content generation are focused on people's own communities and they are underpinned by an ethos of production, which is grounded in a critical consumption of news and collective processes of skill acquisition. Through an analysis of motivations and practices, we account for the values that sustain community reporter communities and discuss how such practices, while emerging from the place of local community, also extend across wider communities of interest. It is suggested that an evolving practice of skill sharing and mutual recognition could potentially stimulate the regrowth of democratic values.
KW - community reporting
KW - recognition
KW - locality
KW - inter-local
KW - democracy
KW - news production and consumption
U2 - 10.1080/1461670X.2014.890339
DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2014.890339
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 97
EP - 114
JO - Journalism Studies
JF - Journalism Studies
SN - 1469-9699
IS - 1
ER -