Communicative Politics and Public Journalism

Public journalism and the democratic process

“…Not only should professional journalists encourage citizens to have an opinion, but also public journalists should develop good public judgment in order for citizens to participate in the democratic process (Compton, 2000). The purpose of public judgment is a "mutual understanding to realize common goals and values" (Yankelovich in Compton, 2000).…”

“…The purpose of public judgment is a "mutual understanding to realize common goals and values" (Yankelovich in Compton, 2000). A diversity of opinions is beneficial in gathering various rich perspectives to tackle issues and develop good public judgment.…”

The People Behind the Press: Building Social Capital in Networked News Models

“…The participation ecosystem framework (Barnes, 2014), informs the wording of these questions as an attempt to establish the basic functioning and relationships among players in the study's networked news model, Social Journalism. This invokes notions of social capital concepts, in particular communicative action frameworks (Compton, 2000;Cottle, 2003), where online and offline interventions were seen as difficult (Ostrom, 2000, p. 172), but important in leveraging bridging and bonding social capital (Rostila, 2010, p. 312). The literature suggests that the operation and structuring of net native institutions and media companies has an effect on participation and audience behaviour (Witschge et al, 2016, p. 81), which provides a strong theoretical basis for this question.…”

“…Insights from self-reported qualitative data were contextualised with social capital indicators represented through descriptive statistical analysis of the survey data to theorise a relationship between certain types of participation and social capital indicators. This approach was informed using the participation ecosystem framework (Barnes, 2014), theories of communicative action (Compton, 2000;Cottle, 2003), and social capital frameworks (Putnam, 1995). The result is an assessment of established observations pertaining to how structures affect the types of participation on certain websites, such as social networking sites in the literature (Couldry, 2014, p. 2), extrapolated to networked news models in the current project.…”

“…Insights from self-reported qualitative data were contextualised with social capital indicators represented through descriptive statistical analysis of the survey data to theorise a relationship between certain types of participation and social capital indicators. This approach is guided using the participation ecosystem framework (O'reilly, 2005, p. 245), and theories of communicative action (Compton, 2000;Cottle, 2003), and social capital frameworks (Adkins, 2008;Bourdieu, 1986;Coleman, 1988Coleman, , 1994b.…”