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- Title
Why Citizens Still Rarely Serve as News Sources: Validating a Tripartite Model of Circumstantial, Logistical, and Evaluative Barriers.
- Authors
REICH, ZVI
- Abstract
Despite being equipped to an unprecedented extent to become substantial news players, despite a growing need for their journalistic input, and despite the promise of usergenerated content to give them voice, ordinary citizens remain a negligible news source. To explore why this is so, I propose a model that indicates journalists' reliance on citizens is hindered by three factors: circumstantial (situations calling for input from citizens arise ad hoc), logistical (using them requires greater journalistic effort), and evaluative (journalists appreciate their contributions less). A broad comparison of contacts with ordinary citizens against contacts with other source types (N = 2,381) in Israel strongly validates this model. To enhance their access, citizens may need not only a technological revolution but also a social, cultural, and epistemic revolution.
- Subjects
ATTRIBUTION of news; JOURNALISTIC ethics; OFF-the-record information in journalism; TECHNOLOGICAL revolution; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
International Journal of Communication (19328036), 2015, Vol 9, p773
- ISSN
1932-8036
- Publication type
Article