Syrian Citizen Journalism
- 25 July 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Digital Journalism
- Vol. 3 (5), 720-736
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2014.931722
Abstract
The Syrian revolution has brought about the creation of a pop-up news ecology, an entirely new, oppositional news system fueled by citizen activists’ use of social media to report on the conflict. Drawing on Castell’s Network Society, this essay assesses the ways such a system came into being, finding a dearth of professional journalism, rapidity of its formation, and assistance by external “connectors” as key factors. This case study provides a potential model for the ways pop-up news ecologies may form in other authoritarian countries.Keywords
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