TY  - JOUR
TI  - Cooperation with the corporation? CNN and the hegemonic cooptation of citizen journalism through iReport.com
AU  - Kperogi, Farooq A.
PY  - 2010
PB  - SAGE Publications
LA  - eng
AB  - The literature on online citizen journalism tends to construe user-generated citizen media as inherently counter-hegemonic, as the emerging, as yet unformed but nonetheless virile antithesis to the traditional media. This article argues that while the vigorous profusion of web-based citizen media has the potential to inaugurate an era of dynamic expansion of the deliberative space and even serve as a counterfoil to the suffocating dominance of the discursive space by the traditional, mainstream media, we are now witnessing a trend toward the aggressive cooptation of these citizen media by corporate media hegemons. To demonstrate this, I study 'iReport.com,' a YouTube-type, user-generated citizen news site launched by the Cable News Network (CNN). I argue that the trend toward corporate-sponsored citizen media may, in the final analysis, blur the distinction between citizen and mainstream journalism.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444810373530
DO  - 10.1177/1461444810373530
T2  - New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
SN  - 1461-7315
SN  - 1461-4448
SP  - 314-329
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/cr-10.1177/1461444810373530
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -