Article2015

Modeling the Adoption and Use of Citizen Journalism by Online Newspapers

Seungahn Nah · Masahiro Yamamoto · Deborah Soun Chung · Robert J. Zuercher

33 citations0/0 files storedJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Abstract

This study examines the extent to which professional journalism adopts and uses citizen journalism, such as user-generated content (UGC) and user-submitted stories (USS), at the individual, organizational, and community levels. In doing so, the study adopts a web-based survey of top U.S. news editors ( n = 142) coupled with U.S. Census Data. The study reveals that experience as online journalists and online staff size play roles in the adoption and use of UGC. The study also finds that community structural pluralism is related to the adoption and use of news stories written together by professional and citizen journalists.

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