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Wiki-Journalism: are wikis the new blogs?
This is a wiki on the subject of wiki journalism, which will be edited into a paper to be presented at the Future of Newspapers conference in Cardiff, UK, but which will remain live and continue to be editable afterwards. Please contribute what you can - the password to contribute is ‘wikiwiki’. All (non-anonymous) contributions will be acknowledged, and of course you’ll have that warm glow inside as well.
I’ve also created a Wikipedia entry for Wiki Journalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_journalism) which is a much chopped-down, dryer, more factual version appropriate to an encyclopedia.
Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Wikis: a brief history
Wiki journalism in action
Literature review
Advantages
Disadvantages
A taxonomy of wiki journalism
Conclusions
Reference List
[TO BE WRITTEN]
[TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY REWRITTEN]
The past few years have seen the news industry begin its first tentative experiments with the wiki format. The most well-known examples have taken place in the USA: in the LA Times ‘wikitorial’ in June 2005, the paper looked to open up its editorial piece on the Iraq war to readers, so that they could edit, rewrite, and add to the original. A year later, Wired magazine pre-published an article about wiki technology online, as a wiki, so that readers could edit it before it was published.
The two examples demonstrated the potential of wiki technology both to reach out to a readership – and to fall flat on its face. The ‘wikitorial’ was, in editorial terms, a failure, with the newspaper pulling the feature after only a day due to readers flooding the site with inappropriate material. In contrast, the Wired experiment was heralded as a success with users suggesting links and contacts, and one actually interviewing a Harvard expert.
So can the news industry look forward to a wiki utopia where readers check facts, spelling and grammar - and do interviews to boot? Or will the wiki dream be killed off through the fear of cyber vandals treating news websites as virgin walls for virtual graffiti? This paper seeks to explore the possibilities of ‘wiki journalism’, looking at the brief history of the technology and the form, and current opinions about wikis in the news industry as a medium for journalism.
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