Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the
latest wave of online news publications. The book investigates the collaborative publishing
models of key news Websites ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively
successful technology news site Slashdot and further to the multitude of Weblogs that have
emerged in recent years. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source
software development community this book illustrates how gatewatching provides an alternative
to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting and has enabled millions
of users around the world to participate in the online news publishing process.
