Start making sense: a three-tier approach to citizen journalism

Sienkiewicz, Matt

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“…The Huffington Post goes quite a bit further, identifying him as "the one-man intelligence unit that exposed the secrets and atrocities of Syria's War" (Bosker, 2013). Numerous scholarly analyses of the Syrian Civil War (Miller & Sienkiewicz, 2012;Wall & el Zahad, 2014;Sienkiewicz, 2014;Gohdes, 2014) have complicated this perspective, highlighting the profoundly collaborative nature of the work that Higgins and his peers have engaged in while covering the conflict. Yet, Higgins' stardom played a crucial role in organizing and attracting digital laborers to the case of MH17.…”

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“…Instead, Avakov's communiqué is better understood as a job posting or, perhaps more accurately, a call for volunteers. The murky BUK video was an intriguing puzzle, irresistible to the skilled, forensic online video investigators described by Sienkiewicz (2014) as the global "interpreter tier" that plays a key mediating role between citizen video makers and mainstream press outlets.…”

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Open BUK: Digital Labor, Media Investigation and the Downing of MH17

Sienkiewicz¹

2015

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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This article considers the unique forms of digital labor that emerged in the wake of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Donetsk, Ukraine in July of 2014. Whereas such investigations traditionally rely on expert analysis and strict information control, the Ukrainians took an unconventional, open-source approach to the case. By releasing key pieces of video evidence on social media, the Ukrainian government recruited a vast roster of skilled online analysts to work on its behalf without expending any financial resources. Placing this user activity in the context of scholarly studies of both fan labor and citizen surveillance, the paper argues that social and economic aspects of online culture enabled Ukraine to benefit significantly from the discourse produced by unpaid workers. Ultimately, the output of these laborers played a key role in counteracting Russia's use of global broadcasting and expensive online propaganda to dominate international debate surrounding MH17.

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Open BUK: Digital Labor, Media Investigation and the Downing of MH17

Sienkiewicz¹

2015

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“…This might be related to the fact that we presented UGC published in a professional journalistic context, where one could expect information to be vetted. Although most journalists try to verify such information, examples in the past have shown that they do not always manage to do so (Sienkiewicz 2014). As previously discussed, most journalists have taken to explicitly stating whether or not UGC-provided information could be verified or not.…”

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Trustworthy Or Shady?

2017

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Integrating user-generated content (UGC) has become an everyday practice in online journalism. Previous research suggests this can have both a beneficial and detrimental effect on a recipient's perception of online journalism's trustworthiness. We conducted an online experiment that, on the one hand, examined the overall influence of integrating UGC in an online news article compared to leaving it out altogether. On the other hand, we also analyzed how two specific modes of integrating UGC, namely its verification and visualization, influence trustworthiness. Controlling for different news topics, our results show that UGC is not a way to boost journalistic trustworthiness. In general, the journalistic use of UGC has a negative but overall weak impact on recipients' perceived trustworthiness of a news article. Regarding the mode of integration, the verification of UGC to some extent positively increases trustworthiness, while visual integration has no substantial impact. Overall, the study sheds light on the hitherto somewhat neglected recipients' perspective on UGC and lays the groundwork for future studies focusing on the reasons behind the uncovered effects of UGC on trustworthiness.

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“…Worrall (2016). trend of citizen journalism and UGC that became prominent among the Arab Spring movements (Sienkiewicz 2014). As it had been since the beginning of the conflict, the role of UGC remains a key element in the coverage of the conflict, particularly in challenging the regime narratives, thus becoming a target for a counter-information strategy.…”

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“…On top of creating an unfiltered and realistic account of the events, this new form of war journalism also lent itself to propagandistic ends by means of curatorial hubs which served as filters between activists and the mainstream media (Trombetta 2012;Sienkiewicz 2014). The Syrian regime exploited these new conditions of mediation to spread propagandistic narratives, via its official news agency and government-friendly television networks, often circulating unverifiable or falsified amateur videos.…”

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Políticas de la posverdad en el Próximo Oriente: los estudios de caso de Siria y Turquía

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Alikasifoglu

2019

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This article presents two case studies of disinformation from the Middle East which fit within the broader academic discussion of 'post-truth politics'. The first case study analyzes a disinformation campaign via social media targeted at a Syrian humanitarian organization known as the White Helmets. The second case study recounts Turkish President Erdog an's strategy to leverage the mobilization and consensus-building potential of social media after the 2013 Gezi Park protests. Both cases present similar dynamics of authoritarian or autocratic regimes coopting social media, particularly in the form of citizen journalism, user-generated content (UGC) and 'trolling' supported by State authorities to challenge the opposition's discourses. CC CC Políticas posverdad en el Próximo Oriente: los estudios de caso de Siria y TurquíaResumen Este artículo presenta dos estudios de caso de desinformación del Próximo Oriente que encajan con el debate académico más amplio de las «políticas posverdad». El primer estudio de caso analiza la campaña de desinformación a través de las redes sociales dirigida a la organización de ayuda humanitaria en Siria conocida como «Cascos Blancos» (White Helmets). El segundo estudio de caso relata la estrategia del presidente turco Erdog an, que se ha aprovechado de la movilización y del potencial de creación de consenso de las redes sociales tras las protestas del Parque Gezi en 2013. Ambos casos presentan dinámicas similares de cooptación de las redes sociales por parte de regímenes autoritarios o autocráticos, especialmente en forma de periodismo ciudadano, contenido generado por usuarios (UGC, por sus siglas en inglés) y «troleo» apoyado por las autoridades del Estado para enfrentarse a los discursos de la oposición.

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Start making sense: a three-tier approach to citizen journalism

Cited by 36 publications

References 9 publications

Open BUK: Digital Labor, Media Investigation and the Downing of MH17

Open BUK: Digital Labor, Media Investigation and the Downing of MH17

Trustworthy Or Shady?

Políticas de la posverdad en el Próximo Oriente: los estudios de caso de Siria y Turquía

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