Lexington Books
Pages: 192
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66692-198-4 • Hardback • December 2023 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-66692-199-1 • eBook • December 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Tamara Kunić is a teaching assistant in the Department of Communication in the faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Participation
Chapter 2: Participatory Journalism
Chapter 3: Regulation of User Generated Content
Part II: Readers' Comments
Chapter 4: Readers’ comments as part of participative journalism
Chapter 5: Communication in digital public sphere
Chapter 6: Readers’ Comments, Hate Speech and Hostility
Chapter 7: So… What to Do With Readers’ Comments’
References
About the Author
Using Croatia as an example, Tamara Kunić offers insights into media participation, audience engagement, the quality of user comments, and the uncertainties journalists face, all of which add to the research on hate speech on news sites and social media and can be applied to other countries.
— Tena Perišin, University of Zagreb
This incisive book provides key insights into participatory journalism and civic engagement online, probing their role in democracies. It smartly navigates how technology alters citizen-media collaboration, covering media system definitions to ethical dilemmas like hate speech. Revealing the dynamic between professional journalism and civic input, it offers relevant theory and findings not just for Croatia, but for all democracies grappling with digital challenges. Essential reading for journalists, academics, and those invested in media and democracy's future.
— Ivan Balabanić, University of Zagreb
This book is aimed at modern scholars and journalists interested in the democratization of communication on the internet and the impact of citizen commentary on journalism. Do citizen comments have serious democratic potential and is participatory journalism an asset to the journalism profession? Read the book to find answers to these questions!
— Nada Zgrabljić Rotar, University of Zagreb