TY - JOUR
T1 - Active Audiencies and Journalism: Involved citizens or motivated consumers?
AU - Masip Masip, Pere
AU - Guallar, Javier
AU - Peralta Mas, Miquel
AU - Ruiz Caballero, Carlos Miguel
AU - Suau Martínez, Jaime
N1 - Masip, Pere; Guallar, Javier; Peralta, Miquel; Ruiz, Carlos; Suau, Jaume
PY - 2015/9/17
Y1 - 2015/9/17
N2 - Audience participation, in any of its forms and names (public journalism, citizen journalism, participatory journalism, UGC), appears to revitalise democracy, thanks to the opportunities for public debate opened up by information and communications technology. On the other hand, however, there are many authors who question whether interactive technologies really encourage democracy or the market, empower the citizen or strengthen the consumer. In this context, we still have little information on the motivations that drive citizens to actively participate through the mechanisms that the media make available to them on their own websites or through social networks. There is a similar lack of information on the role that users attribute to their involvement in the functioning of the media and whether it contributes to improving their democratic function. This article aims to shed some light on this subject. Keywords: Participation. Journalist. Active audiences. Participatory journalism. Democracy.
AB - Audience participation, in any of its forms and names (public journalism, citizen journalism, participatory journalism, UGC), appears to revitalise democracy, thanks to the opportunities for public debate opened up by information and communications technology. On the other hand, however, there are many authors who question whether interactive technologies really encourage democracy or the market, empower the citizen or strengthen the consumer. In this context, we still have little information on the motivations that drive citizens to actively participate through the mechanisms that the media make available to them on their own websites or through social networks. There is a similar lack of information on the role that users attribute to their involvement in the functioning of the media and whether it contributes to improving their democratic function. This article aims to shed some light on this subject. Keywords: Participation. Journalist. Active audiences. Participatory journalism. Democracy.
UR - http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/article/view/815
U2 - 10.25200/BJR.v11n1.2015.815
DO - 10.25200/BJR.v11n1.2015.815
M3 - Article
SN - 1981-9854
VL - 11
SP - 234
EP - 255
JO - Brazilian Journalism Research
JF - Brazilian Journalism Research
IS - 1
ER -