Between Participation and Autonomy: Understanding Indian Citizen Journalists.

With the increasing penetration of mobile phones and the Internet in India, citizen journalism has experienced a steady growth in the last few years. This paper contributes to the growing scholarship on citizen journalism by exploring the motivations of Indian citizen journalists to produce online news content. Through a web-based survey of citizen journalists (N=134) contributing to the leading news portals in India, this study addresses, among other things, the role of traditional media experience among citizen journalists' reporting practices. One of the findings of this study is that, unlike American citizen journalists, Indian citizen journalists who have not worked in traditional media are less likely to work collaboratively than those with a traditional media experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]