온라인신문에서의 시민저널리즘 가능성 연구 = 일상적 실천을 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Overall performances of the present sample of public journalism online newspapers are not good enough to support the argument that public journalism could be better practiced in online than in offline environments and also better practiced in public journalism newspapers than in non-public journalism papers. The goal of this study is to examine the contents of the online newspaper that might reflect the possibilities of this new medium for public journalism practice. This study examined how far and deep public journalism practices have extended into online journalism as journalism's new tradition. This study also analyzed the news coverage of the corresponding print editions to uncover any differences between online and print versions. The two composite measures based upon the nine elements in four categories of public journalism practice and the eight variables in three categories of interactivity were used as indicators of public journalism practice. The analysis of this study reveals a mixed result for public journalism practice in online environments. Both aggregate and individual level of analysis for the public journalism index reveal that there is not much difference between public journalism and non-public journalism online papers in their practice of public journalism principles. Also, there is not much difference between online and offline newspapers. Overall performances of the present sample of public journalism online newspapers are not good enough to support the argument that public journalism is better practiced in online environments than in traditional print.