Melissa Wall is a Professor of Journalism at California State University – Northridge, USA and the author of two previous books about citizen journalism, Citizen Journalism: Practices, Propaganda, Pedagogy, and the edited volume, Citizen Journalism: Valuable, Useless or Dangerous? She is the founder of the Pop-Up Newsroom, a temporary, virtual newsroom for citizen and student journalists.

• Introduction, 1. How participation is practiced by in-betweeners of journalism 2. Reciprocity and the hyper-local journalist 3.The social reporter in action; an analysis of the practice and discourse of Andy Carvin 4. Looking after Ibrahim; how journalists network, develop and safeguard relationships with citizen journalists and activists in Syria 5. Digital humanitarians; citizen journalists on the virtual front line of natural and human-caused disasters 6. Constructing cholera; CNN iReport, the Haitian cholera epidemic and the limits of citizen journalism 7. The Appropriation/Amplification Model of Citizen Journalism; an account of structural limitations and the political economy of participatory content creation 8. Citizen journalism at the margins 9. "Shared Photography"; (Photo)journalism and political mobilisation in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas 10. Helping Syrians tell their story to the world; training Syrian citizen journalists through connective journalism 11. Citizen health journalism; negotiating between political engagement and professional identity in a media training program for healthcare workers 12. From audience to reporter; recruiting and training community members at a participatory news site serving a multiethnic city 13. Training or improvisation? citizen journalists and their educational backgrounds—a comparative view