Networked News Participation: Future Pathways
| Autor: | Wang, Yidong, Robinson, Sue |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Publizistische Medien
Journalismus Verlagswesen Politikwissenschaft News media journalism publishing Political science news participation participatory journalism proprietary platforms Kommunikatorforschung Journalismus interaktive elektronische Medien politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur Communicator Research Journalism Interactive electronic Media Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture Nachrichten Journalismus Bürgerbeteiligung Soziale Medien Diskurs Meinungsführer Medienökologie news journalism citizens' participation social media discourse opinion leader media ecology |
| Zdroj: | Media and Communication, 6, 4, 91-102, News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media |
| Druh dokumentu: | Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article |
| ISSN: | 2183-2439 |
| DOI: | 10.17645/mac.v6i4.1674 |
| Popis: | Civic participation in news production has been a trend under academic scrutiny for at least two decades. The prevalence of digital communication and the dominance of proprietary platforms are two combining forces that disrupt the established journalistic norms. In this article, we investigate news participation and make three grand statements regarding: 1) the holistic definition of participation, 2) the network structure of participation delineating the power dynamics of different media actors, and 3) the transnational context of participation exhibiting the structural constraints within nation-state sovereignty. It is our argument that news participation as a civic act in the digital, globalized age has not fundamentally democratized the information flow as early optimists predicted. Instead, a group of “information elite” have risen to power due to their access to institutional resources, their advantageous positioning in the media ecology, and their entrenchment in the dominant ideology. Participation on proprietary platforms can be easily co-opted to serve the interest of the new information elite. |
| Databáze: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
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