2014
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2014.928455
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From Grand Narratives of Democracy to Small Expectations of Participation

Abstract: This article critically examines the invocation of democracy in the discourse of audience participation in digital journalism. Rather than simply restate the familiar grand narratives that traditionally described journalism's function for democracy (information source, watchdog, public representative, mediation for political actors), we compare and contrast conceptualisations of the audience found within these and discuss how digital technologies impact these relationships. We consider how "participatory" tran… Show more

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“…Indeed, like other organizations, Mediapart also upholds a clear distinction between content produced by readers and content produced by journalists, emphasizing the fact that these are two different things. As such, the status of the contributions of citizens remains up for negotiation (for a typology of the types of interactivity in online news spaces, see Peters and Witschge 2014). …”
Section: Ideology As Resource In Entrepreneurial Journalism 171mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, like other organizations, Mediapart also upholds a clear distinction between content produced by readers and content produced by journalists, emphasizing the fact that these are two different things. As such, the status of the contributions of citizens remains up for negotiation (for a typology of the types of interactivity in online news spaces, see Peters and Witschge 2014). …”
Section: Ideology As Resource In Entrepreneurial Journalism 171mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La primera acepción más frecuente en los cibermedios -ciudadanía en función de los derechos civiles-es muy pertinente en una sociedad caracterizada por el irrespeto a las libertades individuales, pero puede devenir en tradicional, retórica y abstracta para ciudadanos con acceso a varios canales de información que no requieren necesariamente de la prensa para informarse, sino de interpretaciones más profundas a fin de entender los alcances de los fenómenos que los afectan (Peters & Witschge, 2015).…”
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“…En el pasado, algunos historiadores señalaron que 'vecino' se usó en el Perú, antes que ciudadano, para hacer referencia a la nación durante la primera parte del siglo XIX, en los primeros años de la Independencia (Nuñez, 2007). En el presente, en el mundo de las comunicaciones, Dahlberg (citado por Peters & Witschge, 2015) señala que las audiencias son otro término para referirse a los ciudadanos comprometidos racionalmente, que seleccionan las noticias entre una variedad de opciones para mantenerse informados.…”
Section: Ciudadanía: Sus Dimensiones Tradicionales Y Digitalesunclassified
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