Mobile community reporting : a grassroots perspective on journalism / / Olivier Nyirubugara
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| Autore: |
Nyirubugara Olivier
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| Titolo: |
Mobile community reporting : a grassroots perspective on journalism / / Olivier Nyirubugara
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, [Netherlands] : , : Sidestone Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 070.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Citizen journalism - Africa |
| Online journalism - Africa | |
| Digital media - Africa | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- At the heart of community life -- The gates, sources and ethics -- Reporting governance -- Reporting the rights of the child -- Environmental reporting -- Conclusions and paths for future exploration. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Almost everyone in Africa knows a mobile phone, the most widespread communication technology on the continent. That technology started as a voice-only tool before integrating other functions such as messaging, sound and image recording and many others. This book is about ways in which some of those new functions are giving a new face to the field and practice of journalism. That field has for long been dominated by professionally trained journalists, but the trend set in motion by the arrival of the World Wide Web and the mobile phone, among other technologies, is that ordinary people, including members of local communities in marginalised areas, are increasingly doing journalism. In this book, the author presents what he calls the Mobile Community Reporting approach based on a six-year training experiment in which he was involved as trainer and coach in eight African countries. The main argument underlying the MCR approach is the following: if a member of the community covers news using a reporting tool that is familiar to that community, and taking into account the values, interests and worldviews of that community, chances of capturing what the community thinks are very high. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mobile community reporting |
| ISBN: | 90-8890-241-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910798716703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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