Global Media and China Volume 4, Number 1, March 2019

Special Issue: Citizen Journalism in China

Guest Editors: Xin Zeng, Stuart Allan, Savyasaachi Jain and An Nguyen

Introduction: New perspectives on citizen journalism — Xin Zeng, Savyasaachi Jain, An Nguyen and Stuart Allan

Is citizen journalism better than professional journalism for fact-checking rumours in China? How Weibo users verified information following the 2015 Tianjin blasts — Jing Zeng, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns

Prosumers in a digital multiverse: An investigation of how WeChat is affecting Chinese citizen journalism — Yan Wu and Matthew Wall

User-generated news: Netizen journalism in China in the age of short video — Yu Xiang

How citizen journalists impact the agendas of traditional media and the government policymaking process in China — Yumeng Luo and Teresa M. Harrison

The professional boundaries of journalists in Hong Kong: Strategies of accepting and dismissing citizen journalists — Florin C Serban

Blurred boundaries: Citizens journalists versus conventional journalists in Hong Kong — Karoline Nerdalen Darbo and Terje Skjerdal