TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Stephen D
TI  - Watching the watchdog: bloggers as the fifth estate 
SN  - 9780922993475 (pbk.) :
AV  - PN4784.O62 C665 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Spokane, WA
PB  - Marquette Books
KW  - Online journalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Blogs
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Objectivity
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-339) and index; Introduction -- Bloggers as media critics -- Accuracy -- Fact-checking descriptions -- Fidelity of quotations -- Authenticity of documents -- Interpretations of statistics or scientific studies -- Trustworthiness of memes -- Framing -- Disputing the frame -- Reframing a set of facts -- Contextualizing -- Agenda-setting and gatekeeping -- Questioning the news judgment -- Setting an alternative agenda -- Journalistic practices -- Newsgathering -- Writing and editing -- Error correction -- The economics of blogs -- Technological facilitation -- Cost/benefit ratio -- The value chain -- The media marketplace as an ecosystem : symbiosis -- Blogs as alternative media -- Reporting -- Essays -- The blogosphere and the public sphere -- The ideal speech situation -- The spiral of silence -- The quantity question -- The quality question -- Competence -- Cocooning -- Bias -- Quantity and quality, both
ER  -