The Active Recipient: Participatory Journalism Through the Lens of the Dewey-Lippman Debate
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PARTICIPATORY JOURNAL-ISM PRACTICESIN THE MEDIA AND BE-YOND
KANKAN ZHANGHYEJIN CHO
RESEARCH SUBJECT • making conceptual sense of the phenomenon
of participatory journalism in the framework of journalism research
• determining the forms that it is taking in eight European countries and the United States
EARLY SOCIETY
• Small & dense communities• Direct interaction between community members• Rare interaction between communities(messengers,
travelers)
COMPLEX(MODERN) SOCIETY
• Large, complex social networks• Stable groups (institutionalised, enduring structures)
vs. Fluid configurations• Dense ‘clusters’ vs. weakly connected parts• Central vs. peripheral nodes• Limited individual ‘reach’
POSTMODERN SOCIETY
• Large, complex social networks• Extension of reach by communication technology• Partial de-institutionalisation
THE STUDY OF INITIATIVES IN ONLINE NEWSPAPERS (2007)
• Data sample: 16 online newspapers in 9 western countries• Qualitative analysis of the opportunities for audience participation and the rules and criteria regulating them• Identify in each stage who were the content contributors/ managers
STUDY RESULTS IN GENERAL• Most of the options explored by citizen media sites had not been widely adopted• Most common features: users can act upon journalistic content, eg. ranking and commenting• USA Today used community-building methods, which
creates more communication between users
STUDY RESULTS IN STAGES• Access/Observation
Relatively few websites explicitly invite the audience to submit story ideas.
• Selection/Filtering No participation opportunities.
• Processing/EditingUsually materials are carefully selected by journalists.
The content produced by users are limited to topics like entertainment and travel.
Exception: El Pais and Dnevnik
STUDY RESULTS IN STAGES• Distribution
Restricted participation, mainly as the ranking of the news
• InterpretationComments below the news or on a separate page.
Users can recommend or ‘report abuse’ towards
comments .
CASE STUDY: GUARDIAN.CO.UK
Community -building
Interpreta-tion
Access/observation
Interpretation
Processing/editing
CASE STUDY: GUARDIAN WITNESSInvite people to share their stories in forms of text, video and photoshttps://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/527bb34ce4b055987af674ef‘Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda: your photos and videos’
REFERENCES • David Domingo , Thorsten Quandt , Ari Heinonen
, Steve Paulussen , Jane B. Singer & Marina Vu-jnovic (2008) PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM PRACTICES IN THE MEDIA AND BEYOND,Journalism Practice, 2:3, 326-342
• www.guardian.co.uk• https://witness.theguardian.com/