Networked News Participation: Future Pathways

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Autor(a) principal: Robinson, Sue
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Wang, Yidong
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i4.1674
Resumo: 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.
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title Networked News Participation: Future Pathways
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Robinson, Sue
civic participation; news participation; participatory journalism; proprietary platforms; social media
title_short Networked News Participation: Future Pathways
title_full Networked News Participation: Future Pathways
title_fullStr Networked News Participation: Future Pathways
title_full_unstemmed Networked News Participation: Future Pathways
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author Robinson, Sue
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Wang, Yidong
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Wang, Yidong
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv civic participation; news participation; participatory journalism; proprietary platforms; social media
topic civic participation; news participation; participatory journalism; proprietary platforms; social media
description 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.
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