After the “Death of Journalism” in the US: Reinventing Reporting on the Web – Structure v.2
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It's all about the structure! Or is it? ©pcbritz
Alright, tomorrow it will be official: The first day of writing my thesis.
Here’s a last version of the structure. It’s all writing from here 
1. Intro
- catchy example of web breaking news (Ground Report?)
- Death of Journalism (print) (& investigative journalism? à recent history)
- Definition of IJ
- (way back) history of IJ (up to death of print)
(- ability to adapt to new communication models? or in 3.2)
- New chances: examples IJ non-profits flourishing
- examples of CAR&Social Media input for stories
- overall relevance
- thesis, method, aim, structure
2. – Ray Williams theory of culture
- how does change happen? - emergent, resilient, dominant, alternative, oppositional cultures - explain relationship of those cultures
3.1. New Forms of IJ: Emergent Culture
"thick description" of 2 examples developed in emergent culture: - West Seattle Blog or (GroundReport) - Spot.Us - Show Relation to the “Cluetrain Manifesto” 1 investigative case each as example
3.2. New vs. Old IJ: Opposition
- compare new vs. two classical stories (1 NYT, 1 WaPo)
- key elements of investigative J. in dominant culture
- what's new?
-> communication structure (show old and new model)
-> collaboration
(- big player reaction ("death of j"), quality issues, paywalls etc.)
3.3. Becoming part of the system: Integration - how were new practices integrated? - (1 is WikiLeaks, the other The Guardian?) - incorporation of practices & model of communication - alternative becomes part of the dominant
4. Conclusion:
- how have practices changed and with it the model of communication? - typical for web stuff and dominant culture! - benefit(?!) for IJ (and others)
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