Social journalism : outside-in and inside-out : participatory journalism

In the world in which most journalists feel at home, their social interactions with people outside the newsroom are defined by occupational roles - and, by and large, controlled by the news workers who occupy those roles. But networked media, especially participatory journalism options such as comments and social media formats such as Facebook and Twitter, challenge the roles and undermine the controls. The resulting pressures come from two directions.