Convergencias y Divergencias de las noticias online

News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences es el título del último número de la Revista Scan donde se discute el desarrollo de las noticias online e incluye artículos sobre las sinergias entre la participación ciudadana y el poder de los grandes medios de comunicación. Chris Atton y Graham Meikle son los editores de este volumen:

The papers collected in this issue help us chart this emerging territory. The authors share a concern with developing new methodological approaches. They offer work which is empirically-informed as well as theoretically-grounded. From one perspective, these papers can be seen to engage with aspects of convergence, from multi-platform publishing to concentrated ownership — the comings-together of content, communications and computing; of industries and audiences; of models and modes (Boczkowski 2004; Castells 2000; Pool 1983; Rice 1999). From another perspective, these essays are concerned with the opposites of convergence, with ways in which Net use can enable new configurations of news production, distribution and reception; new modes of authorship and audiencehood; new kinds of producer and consumer: pluralisation, multiplication, fragmentation — divergence (Atton 2004; Bruns 2005; Lovink 2002; Meikle 2002).

ARTÍCULOS:

Wikinews: The Next Generation of Alternative Online News?
Axel Bruns

Disaggregating Online News: The Canadian Federal Election, 2005-2006
Greg Elmer, Zach Devereaux & David Skinner

Democracy & Online News: Indymedia and the Limits of Participatory Media
Lee Salter

News on the Net: A critical analysis of the potential of online alternative journalism to challenge the dominance of mainstream news media
Trish Bolton

The Daily Show, Crossfire, and the Will to Truth
Megan Boler

Vía | María Lamuedra