Emergent Weblogs as Civic Journalism.

Some claim that weblogs could serve as a form of civic journalism by encouraging broad participation by the public in the journalistic process. This paper applies the principles of network and emergence theory to weblogs, and proposes a hybrid weblog model that uses decentralized and centralized production methods. The result is a form of media that would enable the participation of the public that civic journalism encourages while still upholding journalism's traditional ethical standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]