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Weblogs and the Epistemology of the News: Some Trends in Online Journalism

Matheson, Donald·2004·New Media & Society
DOI 10.1177/146144804044329
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Journalism has been slow to develop distinctive forms in response to the new contexts provided by the internet. One rapidly developing form, unique to the world wide web, is the weblog. This article reviews the claims made by proponents of the form and explores, through the case study of a weblog produced by the British Guardian newspaper, epistemological differences to the dominant Anglo-American news form. The article argues that the rearticulation in this institutional product of the relation between journalists and users, of the claim to authority made in the news text and of the news text as product, provides historians of both journalism and new media with a case study of the adaptation of journalism to new contexts.

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Authors
Matheson, D.
Venue
New Media & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2004-08
Volume
6
Issue
4
Pages
443-468
ISSN
  • 1461-4448 (ISSN-L)
  • 1461-7315
DOI
10.1177/146144804044329
OpenAlex
W2133221367
Cited by
357
References
39
FWCI
48.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
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