ABSTRACT
This chapter continues a review of the literature commenced in Chapter 1 before locating the research in a theoretical investigation of the public sphere and Bourdieu’s theories of habitus, capital and field. Moreover, this chapter elucidates the emerging literature around a new field of content creation called user-generated stories (UGS). This locates the research around a subfield of journalism commonly referred to as participatory, citizen or alternative (Atton and Hamilton 2008; Goode 2009; Lasica 2003; Gillmor 2006; Curran 2007).
