Abstract
This paper examines how the scholarship of citizen journalism has evolved since the early 2000s. Despite the prolific literature, few studies have taken a systematic approach to examine theories, conceptual definitions, and outcomes. A systematic review of relevant citizen journalism literature was employed to discover how citizen journalism research has evolved over the years, what theories have been used in research, and what features of citizen journalism is discussed in scholarship. According to the results, most of studies are limited to asking for journalists' reactions, and value of citizen journalists focusing on specific cases, and the majority of research uses a Western-centric point of view leaving applicable findings hard for non-Western countries to decipher or employ. The present study calls for the necessity of a more theoretically solid and methodologically rigorous research beyond specific case studies.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
52
Issue
2
First Page
48
Last Page
69
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Moon, Young Eun; Morgoch, Meredith L.; and Nah, Seungahn
(2020)
"A Systematic Review of Citizen Journalism Scholarship from 2000 to 2017,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 52:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol52/iss2/6
Copyright
©2020 Iowa Communication Association
