Online Communities
Defn
Characteristics
- Shared Interests
- Communication Channels
- Community Culture
- Impacts
- Learning
- Social Connection
- Marketing
User Generated Content
Key Features
- authentic
- diversity
- accessible
- viral potential
Impact
- influencing purchases
- community building
Web 2.0
- User participation
- online platform for activism
- accessible
- two-way communication, participatory communication
- user generated content
- users shape the community
- awareness
Networked Journalism
focuses on collaboration of journalists and other actors including people not engaged in a journalistic profession collaboration in the digital era
Alternative Journalism / Independent Journalism / Grassroots Journalism
NOT mainstream focuses on underrepresented issues
Impact
Media Pluralism Media Literacy
they are reshaping journalism in the digital age