Author : Axel Bruns
Release : 2005
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 328/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gatewatching by : Axel Bruns
Download or read book Gatewatching written by Axel Bruns. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. The book investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites, ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology news site Slashdot, and further to the multitude of Weblogs that have emerged in recent years. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, this book illustrates how gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has enabled millions of users around the world to participate in the online news publishing process.