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Networked News Participation: Future Pathways
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Abstract 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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Nachrichten; Journalismus; Bürgerbeteiligung; Soziale Medien; Diskurs; Meinungsführer; Medienökologie
Klassifikation
Kommunikatorforschung, Journalismus
interaktive, elektronische Medien
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
news participation; participatory journalism; proprietary platforms
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 91-102
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 6 (2018) 4
Heftthema
News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)