DZIENNIKARSTWO OBYWATELSKIE - PRÓBA SOCJOLOGICZNEGO OPISU
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2008
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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CITIZEN JOURNALISM: AN ATTEMPT OF A SOCIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION
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The paper touches upon a new, at least in Poland, phenomenon known as citizen journalism. It is
also treated as a pretext to carry out more general deliberations on the completely new challenges and
dilemmas facing the contemporary citizen society.
Citizen journalism is developing dynamically and seems to confirm the thesis about the vitality of
citizen society. At the same time, however, the phenomenon o f citizen journalism prompts one to pose
a number of new questions including such as: isn’t today’s citizen society being deliberately pushed to
the Internet with the result that although its initiatives are conveyed globally, they also become
merely niche ones; or is the Web 2.0 formula (on which most o f the examples o f citizen journalism are
based) a chance to increase citizens autonomy;, or is it rather a vehicle of social self-supervision, and
to what extent is citizen journalism an alternative to the existing, established media order.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 70, 2008, z. 3, s. 203-217