A few recent scholarly articles of note
Citizenship in the Age of the InternetHermes, Joke
European Journal Of Communication, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 295-309, September 2006
Hermes explores the impact of communication technology on the practice of citizenship. Two sentences that caught my eye: "...the Net sits more easily with incidental than with structural citizen practices. The transition from audience member to belonging to a public is not a permanent elevation but a temporary one."
Ethnic media, community media and participatory culture
Deuze, Mark
Journalism, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 262-280, August 2006
An excerpt: "the success of local, minority, community or alternative media in reconnecting ‘media’ with ‘audiences’ in terms of some kind of collaborative civic engagement is not the exclusive domain of not-for-profit companies. Balnaves et al.
(2004) consider the shift towards a more engaged, emancipatory and participatory
relationship between media professionals and their publics as an example of a ‘new humanism’ in the domains of public relations, journalism and advertising, constituting ‘an antidote to narrow corporate-centric ways of
representing interests in modern society’ (p.192)."
Capitulation to capital? OhmyNews as alternative media
Kim, Eun-gyoo; Hamilton, James W.
Media, Culture & Society, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 541-560, July 2006
[Abstact] This article confronts a foundational problematic in Western-inflected scholarship on media and democracy by investigating the emergence, structure, and operation of OhmyNews, a Korean primarily online publication that hybridizes features of both commercial and ostensibly ‘alternative’ media. After an analysis informed by the social and historical context of Korean politics, economics, and society of the past 40 years, the article concludes that OhmyNews is a unique response to unique enabling conditions, and that its commercial features are inextricably a part of its progressive nature.
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