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Asia’s Media Innovators Volume 3: Crowdsourcing in Asian Journalism

by Stephen Quinn
Crowdsourcing occurs when media companies solicit content from the audience. Much of the time that process involves digital tools and invokes social media and social networking platforms to collect that content. Crowdsourcing represents a grassroots initiative that potentially could produce better journalism.
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Asia’s Media Innovators Volume 3: Crowdsourcing in Asian Journalism, written by Stephen Quinn, describes a form of journalism where the audience contributes content and where media companies embrace those contributions, seeing the end product as a form of collaboration between audience and media with the aim of improving and complementing conventional journalism.

Topics include:

• Key concepts of crowdsourcing

• Recent major crowdsourcing initiatives

• Early pioneers of crowdsourcing in Asia

• Asian examples of crowdsourcing

• Key issues related to crowdsourcing

• Tools and sites for crowdsourced journalism

• Resources for further information

Edited by Simon Winkelmann.

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