Audience Participation in the Production of Online News

Towards a Typology

Bibliographic Data

ID7501541
AuthorsAske Kammer (0000-0001-9114-5464, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume34
Issues1
Pages113-126
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNordicom review/NORDICOM review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1403-1108 • E-ISSN: 2001-5119
PublisherDe Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.2478/nor-2013-0108
OpenAlexW2149654786
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited22

The potential of audience participation constitutes a most important characteristic of digital journalism. This article presents an inductive study of audience participation in the production of online news in a Danish context, analysing how audiences participate, and what relationships between journalists and audiences accompany this participation. The article discusses the concept of participation, arguing on the basis of sociological theory that it should be understood as those instances where the audience influences the content of the news through their intentional actions. Applying this definition, it proposes four ideal types of audience participation in the production of online news, namely sharing of information , collaboration , conversation and meta-communication

Advertising · Audience participation · Business · Economics · Media studies · Political science · Production (economics · Sociology · Typology · Media Studies and Communication · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Social Media and Politics

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