Peer-to-Peer Journalism

As a special focus theme on practical case studies, P2P Journalism (p2pj) combines many of the more interesting issues discussed earlier in the book, both in theory and in implementation. The p2p here isn’t necessarily or specifically about the kinds of peer technologies described in this book, although these and others can certainly play an important role, rather it’s about people as peers and the related trust issues.

How would one define p2pj? Perhaps something like this:

  1. Original content is not generated by the centralized parts of the system (if there are any) but rather locally by the peers, mainly supported by, one might imagine, peer messaging and collaborative tools. This is in contrast to most modern journalism ...

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