Special journal issue on Histories of media(ted) participation Edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren CM - Communication Management Quarterly Nr. 30 (2014) Free to download from: cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/pub/CM30-SE-Web.pdf This special issue takes on the challenge to combine historical research with the study of participatory media, and participation in/through the media. The attention spent on the notion of participation has oscillated over time and within different academic disciplines and societal fields. In recent years, we can see a hopeful celebration of the capacities on online technologies to facilitate (or even embody) participatory practices. Reflections on these ‘new’ technologies in many cases have led to formulations of strong claims to novelty and uniqueness, in combination with processes of amnesia in relation to the societal roles of old media technologies. As Ekström et al. (2011: 4) write: “by overstating the newness of participatory media, the history of audience activity [and media participation] is made invisible and the present elusively vague.” Apart from the need for historical research for its own sake, and the need to show the complexities and differences over time by going back to periods “when old technologies where new” – to quote Marvin’s (1988) book title – historical research is also very necessary to compensate for the mythologies of novelty that characterize contemporary reflections about ‘new’ – or better: online – media. Today’s digital media landscape is of course in constant evolution, and it is important to understand how its patterns of development, not least in regard to its political economy, technical architecture, and socio-cultural usage, embody built-in contingencies that both engender and delimit its efficacy for democratic participation. This special issue contains 6 articles that, each in their own ways, demonstrate the complexities, fluidities and limitations of specific participatory practices, located in the past and present, and the interconnections between different societal fields, such as the technological, the cultural, the political and the journalistic. Table of Contents Histories of media(ted) participation: An introduction (p. 7–14) Nico Carpentier, Peter Dahlgren Fighting for a regime change through active listening (p. 15–34) Nelson Ribeiro For an archeology of online participatory literary writing: Hypertext and hyperfiction (p. 35–54) Francesca Pasquali Wrong turns towards revolution? Grassroots media and political participation in Italy (1967-2012) (p. 55–78) Fausto Colombo Propaganda, critical media literacy and participation: Tracing memories of the Soviet media (p. 79–104) Natalija Mažeikiene, Kristina Juraite The tales of the three digital cities of Amsterdam: The application of ICT for social and political participation (p. 105–130) Dennis Beckers, Peter van den Besselaar Historicising the journalist–audience relationships in the internet era: A case study of the Slovenian newspaper Delo (p. 131–156) Igor Vobic +++ This special issue is resulting from the work of the Working Group on “Audience interactivity and participation” of the COST Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”. COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research at the European level. The Action “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” (2010-2014) is coordinating research efforts into the key transformations of European audiences within a changing media and communication environment, identifying their complex interrelationships with the social, cultural and political areas of European societies. A range of interconnected but distinct topics concerning audiences are being developed by four Working Groups: (1) New media genres, media literacy and trust in the media; (2) Audience interactivity and participation; (3) The role of media and ICT use for evolving social relationships; and (4) Audience transformations and social integration. +++ Other publications of WG2 of the TATS COST Action are: - Special issue on “Interrogating audiences: theoretical horizons of participation in CM Communication Management Quarterly, 2011, nr. 21. url: cost.eu/library/publications/12-02-Interrogating-audiences-Theoretical-horizons-of-participation-in-CM-Communication-Management-Quarterly - Special issue on “Public voice and mediated participation” in COMMUNICATIONS. The European Journal of Communication Research, 2012, volume 37, issue 3. url: degruyter/view/j/commun.2012.37.issue-3/issue-files/commun.2012.37.issue-3.xml - Special issue on Audience Research and media management in the International Journal on Media Management, 2012, volume 14, issue 2. url: mediajournal.org/ojs/index.php/jmm/issue/view/53. - Special issue on “Networked belonging and networks of belonging” in Observatorio (OBS*), 2012. ulr: obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/issue/view/34 - Special section on “Audience Involvement and New Production Paradigms” in Participations. Journal of audience and reception studies, 2012, volume 9, issue 2. url: participations.org/Volume%209/Issue%202/contents.htm. - Special section on “COST - audience interaction & participation” in Participations. Journal of audience and reception studies, 2013, volume 10, issue 1. url: participations.org/Volume%2010/Issue%201/contents.htm. - Special issue on New media, audience and emotional connectivity in Sociedad de la Información, 2013, nr. 44. url: sociedadelainformacion/cost_2013/specialissue_44.pdf - Special Issue on Participatory Journalism: Possibilities and Constraints for Audience Participation in Medijska istraživanja/Media Research, 2013, volume 19, issue 2. url mediaresearch.cro.net/ An overview of all WG2 publications can be found on WG2s output page: cost-transforming-audiences.eu/node/303
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