PhD student Benjamin Gotts at the Sociology Department at the University of Aberdeen needs your help. In his own words:
I am carrying out a study to find out about the nature of online news work, particularly the social forces that are reshaping the public’s relationship to news media and the ways in which news work and news-workers are affected by technological change.
One part of Gotts’ study is based on an online questionnaire which he asks readers of Undercurrent to answer. Recommended!
He’s also planning online interviews with bloggers. If you’re interested, get in touch with him on b.gotts@abdn.ac.uk.
More from Gotts on his project:
Drawing on previous arguments that weblogs or ‘blogs’ are a new ‘postmodern’ form of journalism, I am looking to understand how ordinary citizens, empowered by digital technologies that connect throughout the globe, are contributing to and participating in their own kind of news and the way this is fed back into the presentation of news in the media.