ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to apply the pop-up news ecology concept to a different case to refine the concept and see how it applies outside of Syria. Wahl-Jorgensen argues that as a "sensitizing concept", news ecology can help us clarify the increasingly complex environment within which journalism takes place, taking focus away from technology's particular affordances to consider broader processes at work. The pop-up news ecology concept was developed through an examination of Syrian citizen, activist, and professional journalism that sprang into being at the start of the Syrian civil war. The key characteristics identified earlier as necessary for the emergence of a pop-up news ecology are applied to a secondary review of research as well as some key journalistic accounts of the police violence against African Americans. Similarly, the racial justice ecology developed to fill an information vacuum in the United States.
