Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production

by Axel Bruns

Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. The book investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites, ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology news site Slashdot , and further to the multitude of Weblogs that have emerged in recent years. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, this book illustrates how gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has enabled millions of users around the world to participate in the online news publishing process.

330 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

Axel Bruns is Associate Professor, ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology.