Tensions in the scholarship on participatory journalism and citizen journalism

Abbott, Jennifer Young

doi:10.1080/23808985.2017.1350927

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“…The drastic changes in the news media environment have led media organisations to devote significant amounts of resources in order to embrace and incorporate UGC into their journalistic workflows. Participatory journalism is considered as a process in which citizens contribute to professional journalists' news production (Abbott 2017). Drawing on a classification of citizen participation, scholarship often focuses on the different stages of news production (Singer et al 2011), on the different propositions of the communication process (Franquet et al 2011) or on the concept of interactivity (Suau and Masip 2014).…”

Section: Participatory Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

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During the last two decades, citizens’ participation in news production process has attracted significant interest from both academia and the media industry. Media production and consumption have been altered considerably and traditional concepts, such as gatekeeping, have been under discussion. Many news organisations include in their websites tools and applications that allow users to be active consumers or even co-producers of journalistic content, by liking, sharing, commenting and submitting material. At the same time, large amounts of user-generated content are uploaded every day on social media platforms. Subsequently, media organisations must deal with continually available information which requires management, classification and evaluation not only to keep high journalistic standards, but also to avoid problems. The latter category can include grammar mistakes, fake or misleading information and hate speech. All the above-mentioned parameters highlight the obvious need for platforms that can support journalism manage practice. Such a platform should utilise semantic technologies, which can support organised collection and moderation of content in an effective way and in short time. This study discusses the design and the implementation of a participatory journalism management platform.

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Section: Participatory Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

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“…We operationalized regular readers as survey respondents claiming to read the Kronen Zeitung at least two days a week (N = 1693, see Table 2). For the analysis, we included another four survey items 5 : Firstly, we included the question regarding readers' perception of the most important issue. This allowed us to compare the salience of each issue between the Kronen Zeitung and its readership.…”

Section: (Post-)election Survey Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Citizen as Contributor—Letters to the Editor in the Austrian Tabloid PaperKronen Zeitung(2008–2017)

2020

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This paper addresses the subject of letters to the editor as one of the longest standing forums for public discussion and debate by ordinary citizens. To show how the voice of ordinary citizens is presented in letters to the editor during national election campaigns over a period of ten years (2008, 2013 & 2017), we are focusing on the Austrian Kronen Zeitung: A newspaper with an exceptionally high market share of up to 40% during the examination period, a heavy focus on the letters section with three pages per day, and a self-declared willingness to take a stance, especially during election periods. Based on a quantitative content analysis of 530 letters to the editor and 525 articles in the politics section as well as survey data from the Austrian national election study on the political positions of the Kronen Zeitung's readers, we find that letters to the editor in the Kronen Zeitung do not reflect, but complement the articles in the politics section. The tone of the letters is more negative than that of news articles, but the letters closely reflect the readers' political positions, therefore offering identification with the paper.

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“…One way to challenge the typical depictions of the poor is for the poor themselves to take over how they are portrayed in the public sphere. Citizen journalism is one way to do this, where 'ordinary citizens' command the curation and production of news-making with blogs and social media as journalistic mediums (Abbott 2017). Scholars describe citizen journalism as a 'deliberative forms of civic education' where citizens actively make a case for issues that they consider to be relevant in their lives (Nah et al 2017, 64).…”

Section: You Stink and Citizen Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Related to this issue, we also recognize that citizen journalism is not immune from the pathologies of digital communication. Some studies suggest that citizen journalism tends to focus on the negatives of an issue, using 'algorithms and other structural features of social media' that are designed to 'enrage' audiences, which, in turn, renders the digital public sphere vulnerable to disinformation and hate speech (Abbott 2017;Wall 2019, 33). The epistemic quality of citizen journalism can also be critiqued, for its lack of editorial controls places questions on the integrity of news produced.…”

Section: You Stink and Citizen Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can the poor exercise deliberative agency in a multimedia saturated society? Lessons from Brazil and Lebanon

Alnemr

Choucair

Curato

2020

Political Research Exchange

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There are many ways of amplifying the voices of the poor in today's multimedia saturated societies. In this article, we argue that the dominant portrayals of poverty in the media privilege voices that exclude the poor from authentic and consequential deliberations that affect their lives. We make a case for amplifying the poor's deliberative agencythe performance of political justification in the public spherewhen creating media content. Through two illustrative examples, we demonstrate that amplifying the poor's deliberative agency is both normatively desirable and politically possible. We begin with the case of Brazil where we discuss how slow journalism drew attention to the diversity of the poor's political claims about a mining disaster, followed by the case of citizen journalism in Lebanon where a protest movement shifted the dominant arguments about the garbage crisis from an issue of the dirty poor to an issue of the corrupt elite. Through these examples, this article makes a normative case for portraying poor communities as democratic agents who are bearers of ideas, reasons, justifications, and aspirations. We argue that this portrayal is essential for promoting virtues of deliberative democracyinclusiveness, pluralistic reason-giving, and reflexivitythat are very much needed in contemporary times.

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Tensions in the scholarship on participatory journalism and citizen journalism

Cited by 20 publications

References 74 publications

A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

A Participatory Journalism Management Platform: Design, Implementation and Evaluation

The Citizen as Contributor—Letters to the Editor in the Austrian Tabloid PaperKronen Zeitung(2008–2017)

Can the poor exercise deliberative agency in a multimedia saturated society? Lessons from Brazil and Lebanon

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