DOCSLIB.ORG

Media and Participation to Irena for Her Brave Struggle Media and Participation a Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Media and Participation to Irena for Her Brave Struggle Media and Participation a Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle Media and Participation To Irena for her brave struggle Media and Participation A site of ideological-democratic struggle Nico Carpentier intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA First published in the UK in 2011 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK First published in the USA in 2011 by Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Copyright © 2011 Intellect Ltd All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover designer: Holly Rose Copy-editor: Macmillan Typesetting: Mac Style, Beverley, E. Yorkshire ISBN 978-1-84150-407-0 Printed and bound by Gutenberg Press, Malta. Contents Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Chapter 1: Defining Participation: An Interdisciplinary Overview 13 1. Democratic theory and participation 15 2. Beyond democratic theory 39 3. Audience participation and communication (rights) 64 Chapter 2: Keyword – Power 137 1. A conceptual introduction 139 2. Case 1: Management in the north Belgian audience discussion programme Jan Publiek 148 3. Case 2: Barometer and the post-political 161 Chapter 3: Keyword – Identity 173 1. A conceptual introduction 175 2. Case 1: The construction of ordinary people in Jan Publiek 185 3. Case 2: Temptation Island – reality TV and minimalist participation 195 Chapter 4: Keyword – Organization 213 1. A conceptual introduction 215 2. Case 1: BBC’s Video Nation 230 3. Case 2: RadioSwap 247 Media and Participation Chapter 5: Keyword – Technology 265 1. A conceptual introduction 267 2. Case: Kinoautomat – One man and his house. The lack of uptake of participatory technology 276 Chapter 6: Keyword – Quality 309 1. A conceptual introduction 311 2. Case 1: 16plus, Barometer and the rejection of participatory products 324 3. Case 2: Alternative and community media constructions of quality: Negotiated quality 337 Chapter 7: A Short Conclusion 349 References 361 6 Acknowledgements arts of the chapters in this book were previously published as articles and book chapters, and reappear here in revised form. In chapter 1, the discussion on the Soviet theory of the press was published in anP article entitled ‘Reading back beyond the “post” pre!x. "e politics of the signi!er “post-socialism”, and its opportunities for the enrichment of participatory media theory’, in Mediální studia, 1/2010: 7–30. "e theoretical discussion on power was published as the introduction of the book chapter ‘Policy’s hubris. Power, fantasy and the limits of (global) media policy interventions’ in Robin Mansell and Marc Raboy (eds.) !e Handbook on Global Media and Communication Policy, by Blackwell, p. 113–128. "e Jan Publiek case study in chapter 2 was published as ‘Managing audience participation’ in the European Journal of Communication, 16 (2): 209–232. "e Barometer case study in chapter 2 was published as ‘Post-democracy, hegemony and invisible power. "e Reality TV media professional as ‘primum movens immobile”’ in So!e Van Bauwel and Nico Carpentier (eds.) Trans- reality Television. !e Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics and Audience in Reality TV, by Lexington Books, p. 105–124. "e theoretical discussion on the everyday and the ordinary, combined with the case study on Jan Publiek in chapter 3 was co-authored with Wim Hannot, and published as ‘To be a common hero. "e uneasy balance between the ordinary and ordinariness in the subject position of mediated ordinary people in the talk show Jan Publiek’, in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, 12 (6): 597–616. "e second case study in chapter 3, on Temptation Island, was published as ‘Putting your relationship to the test. Constructions of !delity, seduction and participation in Temptation Island’ in the Social Journalism International Review, 2: 321–345. "e Video Nation case study in chapter 4 was published as ‘BBC’s Video Nation as a participatory media practice. Signifying everyday life, cultural diversity and participation in an on-line community’ in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, 6 (4): 425–447. Part of the second case study on RadioSwap was published as a chapter in Understanding Alternative Media, authored by Olga Bailey, Bart Cammaerts and myself, and as an article entitled ‘"e on-line community media database RadioSwap as a translocal tool Media and Participation to broaden the communicative rhizome’ in Observatorio (OBS*), http://www.obercom. pt/ojs/index.php/obs. "e theoretical discussion in chapter 6, and the case study on alternative and community media constructions of quality was published as ‘Developing democratic and negotiated quality. Re-articulating discourses of quality through democratic and participatory media practices’ in Communication Management Quarterly, 13 (4): 5–41. "e case study on 16plus and Barometer was published as ‘Produsers’ on participatory websites. Ordinary young people and the politics of banality, in Peter Dahlgren and Tobias Olsson (eds.) Young Citizens, ICTs and Democracy, p. 51–68. I thank the relevant publishers and colleagues for permission to reprint. 8 Introduction1 n November 1941 the Nazis transformed the garrison town of !eresienstadt (or Terezín in what is now the Czech Republic) into a concentration camp that became ‘home’ to more than 50,000 Jewish people who were forced to live in extremely Iharsh conditions, while they awaited deportation to the Auschwitz extermination camp. !ere were many children in the !eresienstadt camp, o"en segregated from the adults in children’s homes. !e group of young boys who were housed in Barracks L417 (or Home One) started, in secret, to produce a newspaper, Vedem (which translates as ‘We lead’), which was a remarkable collection of essays, reviews, stories, drawings and poetry, written by the 13-, 14- and 15-year-old boys in Home One2. Vedem’s #rst and only editor-in-chief was Petr Ginz (1928–1944), who took on the role aged 14. Vedem was produced weekly, from December 1942 to July 1944. !e 800 pages of Vedem, 1–190 typewritten, the rest handwritten, survived the war and are now housed in the Memorial of Terezin. !e 100 or so occupants of Home One were less fortunate; only #"een boys survived the war. Vedem’s editor-in-chief, Petr Ginz, was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 (Křížková et al., 1995). One of the boys, Walter Roth, delivered the following address, which was (quite soon a"er) published in Vedem: !e banner has been raised. Home Number One has its own &ag, the symbol of its future work and its future communal life. !e Home has its own government. Why did we set it up? Because we no longer want to be an accidental group of boys, passively succumbing to the fate meted out to us. We want to create an active, mature society and through work and discipline transform our fate into a joyful, proud reality. !ey have unjustly uprooted us from the soil that nurtured us, from the work, the joys, and the culture from which our young lives should have drawn strength. !ey have only one aim in mind – to destroy us, not only physically but mentally and morally as well. Will they succeed? Never! Robbed of the sources of our culture, we shall create new ones. Separated from all that gave us pleasure, we shall build a new and joyously triumphant life! Cut o' from a well-ordered society, we shall create a new life together, based on organization, voluntary discipline and mutual trust. Torn from our people Media and Participation by this terrible evil, we shall not allow our hearts to be hardened by hatred and anger, but today and forever, our highest aim shall be love for our fellow men, and contempt for racial, religious and nationalist strife. (Roth, in Křížková et al., 1995: 36) Vedem remains a beautiful and at the same time horri#c symbol of the human capacity to endure hardships without surrendering humanity. Vedem demonstrates the importance of communication to articulate this same humanity: To speak, to write and to publish is to enjoy, to resist, to live and to be human. Vedem uniquely symbolizes human capacity and need to communicate. It demonstrates the importance – to all of us – of the media as a tool and structure to organize this communication, and our capacity to produce these media ourselves, even in the face of the most di(cult circumstances. !is book explores media and participation in much less horrendous circumstances, but against the backdrop of the vigour that the editors of Vedem displayed in order to democratize their communication in a place where democracy had ceased to exist. In the contemporary era, participation still sometimes meets with resistance, contempt or indi'erence, but it is no longer punished by persecution, at least not in most western democracies, and not most of the time. !is is not to imply that participation is an easy concept, either theoretically or empirically. Its ideological role in the democratic-political realm renders it a &oating signi#er, which tends to complicate matters. !e #rst part of this book attempts to grasp the concept of participation and its role within the mediascape through a detailed discussion of the articulations of participation in the theoretical-academic debates in #ve societal #elds: democracy, spatial planning, development, arts and museums, and communication. !is detailed analysis, which is in its structure inspired by Foucault’s archeo-genealogy, highlights the complexity and contingency of the signi#er participation, by showing the wide variety of – sometimes contradictory and sometimes mutually reinforcing – meanings that have been attributed to the concept of participation in these di'erent #elds in the second half of the twentieth and #rst years of the twenty-#rst century.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Nature of the Participatory Worldview Chapter 1 – the Nature of the Participatory Worldview
    The Nature of the Participatory Worldview Chapter 1 – The Nature of the Participatory Worldview Chapter 1 – The Nature of the Participatory Worldview 1) The Participatory Worldview and the Spiral of Western Civilization As we find ourselves at the beginning of the third Millennium, Western civilization faces an epochal change. This change is far more profound than the mere numerical advance of the calendar. Our secular, dualistic, reductionist view of the world -- our Mechanistic Worldview, also known as the Newtonian or Cartesian worldview -- is showing signs of old age. After 400 years of guiding our inquiry and actions, after many successes and a growing number of failures, the Mechanistic Worldview is increasingly under attack on many fronts: philosophically, ethically, spiritually, even from within itself, from the scientific and technological perspective. Our intellectual and social lives have become vastly more complicated than in past generations. Social and environmental problems are rapidly mounting, and depression and apathy seem increasingly prevalent. Unfortunately, the Mechanistic Worldview -- the source of our values, the justification for our actions, the framework upon which all our ideas are laid out -- seems less and less able to cope, and less able to provide satisfactory resolution. The time has come to deeply reexamine our present worldview, and, to the greatest degree possible, to creatively transcend it. Even though the Zeitgeist affects us all, the task of articulating a new worldview falls primarily to those philosophically-inclined thinkers of all disciplines1. Traditionally the greatest burden for this task has fallen upon the philosophers proper. Philosophers are, after all, in the business of examining things deeply, of understanding the root causes of our intellectual and emotional deficiencies, and of charting new paths for society.
    [Show full text]
  • Editor's Note Development of a Spiritual Emergency Scale
    VOLUME 45, NUMBER 2, 2013 THE JOURNAL OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY Editor’s Note v Development of a Spiritual Emergency Scale 105 TABLE OF MONIKA GORETZKI CONTENTS MICHAEL THALBOURNE LANCE STORM Neo-Piagetian Transpersonal Psychology: A New Perspective 118 EDWARD J. DALE Yoga Psychotherapy: The Integration of Western Psycholog- ical Theory and Ancient Yogic Wisdom 139 MARIANA CAPLAN ADRIANA PORTILLO LYNSIE SEELY Beyond the Evolutionary Paradigm in Consciousness Studies 159 ROBIN S. BROWN Building Bridges Between Spirituality and Psychology: An Indigenous Healer’s Teachings About Befriending the Self 172 ROCKEY ROBBINS JI Y. HONG Book Reviews Wisdom of the senses: The untold story of their SAMUEL BENDECK 198 inner life. J. Herlihy SOTILLOS Awaken inside yoga meditation. J. Carrera CHANELL JARAMILLO 203 The rebirth of the hero: Mythology as a guide to JAY DUFRECHOU 204 spiritual transformation. K. Le Grice Books Our Editors are Reading 214 EDITOR Marcie Boucouvalas ASSOCIATE Douglas A. MacDonald (Research) EDITOR EDITORIAL Carla Pacalo ASSISTANT BOOK REVIEW Arthur Hastings EDITOR BOOK REVIEW Lauren Bracciodieta EDITORIAL ASSISTANT BOARD OF Paul Clemens, Nevada City, California EDITORS Jack Engler, Schiff Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts James Fadiman, Menlo Park, California Jorge Ferrer, California Institute of Integral Studies Daniel Goleman, Williamstown, Massachusetts Elmer Green, Ozawkie, Kansas Stanislav Grof, Mill Valley, California Tobin Hart, State University of West Georgia Michael Hutton, Victoria, British Columbia Stanley Krippner, San Francisco, California Irene Lazarus, Raleigh, North Carolina Lawrence LeShan, New York, New York John Levy, Mill Valley, California David Loy, Bunkyo University, Japan Francis G. Lu, San Francisco, California David Lukoff, Petaluma, California Michael Murphy, San Rafael, California Peter L.
    [Show full text]
  • Social Media and Politics: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Designing a Study of Political Engagement
    Social Media and Politics: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations in Designing a Study of Political Engagement Paper presented at Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference New Political Communication Unit Royal Holloway, University of London April 17-18, 2008 Maja Turnšek University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Slovenia [email protected] Nicholas W. Jankowski Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email protected] 1 Introduction Web 2.0 has become the buzz word describing a plethora of social media available on the internet, includingblogs, photo and file sharing systems (e.g., Flickr, SlideShare, YouTube), and social networking sites (e.g., Friendster, MySpace, SecondLife). Although these media are largely designed for personal presentation, political speech and action sometime emerge, such as in postings protesting government actions on YouTube, creation of candidate headquarters in SecondLife, and utilization of still image and video functionalities on mobile phones during demonstrations and police confrontations. Last year, as candidates began preparing for the U.S. Presidential Primaries, CNN coined the term YouTube-ification of Politics to describe this development. From a perspective ascribing importance to everyday settings as venues for political expression, these Internet-based social media have become both the tools for and sites of politics. The question, however, is how such manifestations of political life can be empirically investigated within a social science theoretical framework. In this paper we examine the theoretical and methodological approaches involved in studying social media utilized for political expression and action. In question form, we ask: How do empirically oriented social scientists consider the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in investigating social media? We address this question through examining a sample of research-oriented peer reviewed journal articles addressing facets of social media.
    [Show full text]
  • Jiří Menzel Ostre Sledované Vlaky/ Closely Watched Trains 1966 93
    October 16, 2007 (XV:8) Jií Menzel Ostre sledované vlaky/ Closely Watched Trains 1966 93 minutes Directed by Jií Menzel Written by Bohumil Hrabal (also novel), Jirí Menzel Produced by Zdenek Oves and Carlo Ponti Original Music by Jirí Sust Cinematography by Jaromír Sofr Film Editing by Jirina Lukesová Václav Neckár... Trainee Milos Hrma Josef Somr...Train dispatcher Hubicka Vlastimil Brodsk...Counselor Zednicek Vladimír Valenta...Stationmaster Max Alois Vachek...Novak Ferdinand Kruta... Masa's Uncle Noneman Jitka Bendová...Conducteress Masa Jitka Zelenohorská...Zdenka Nada Urbánková...Victoria Freie Libuse Havelková...Max's wife Kveta Fialová...The countess Pavla Marsálková...Mother Milada Jezková...Zdenka's mother Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film JIÍ MENZEL (23 February 1938, Prague, Czechoslovakia) has directed 26 films and acted in many more. Some of the films he directed are Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále/ I Served the King of England (2006), Zebrácká opera/The Beggar’s Opera (1991), Konec starych casu/The End of Old Times (1989), Postriziny/Cutting it Short (1981), Promeny krajiny/Altered Landscapes (1974), Zlocin v dívcí skole/Crime at the Girls School (1965), and Domy z panelu/Prefabricated Houses (1960). from World Film Directors, Vol. II. Ed. John Wakeman. The H.W. Wilson Company NY 1988 Jií Menzel (February 12, 1938— ), Czech film and theatre director, scenarist, and actor, was born in Prague. He is the son of Josef Menzel, a journalist who became a children’s author and then turned to writing scripts for puppet
    [Show full text]
  • Ideologies of Autonomy
    Wikipedia @ 20 Ideologies of Autonomy Christopher M. Cox Published on: Jun 11, 2019 Updated on: Jun 21, 2019 Wikipedia @ 20 Ideologies of Autonomy Introduction When I first began routinely using Wikipedia in the early 2000s, my interest owed as much to the model for online curation the site helped to popularize as it did Wikipedia itself. As a model for leveraging the potential of collective online intelligence, emerging modes of online productivity enabled everyday people to help build Wikipedia and, just as importantly for me, proliferated the use of “Wikis” to centralize and curate content ranging from organizational workflows to repositories for the intricacies of pop culture franchises. As a somewhat obsessive devotee of the television series Lost (2004-2011), I was especially enthusiastic about the latter, since the Lostpedia wiki was an essential part of my engagement with the series’ themes, mysteries, and motifs. On an almost daily basis during the show’s run, I found myself plunging ever deeper into Lostpedia, gleaming reminders of previous plot points and character interactions and using this knowledge to piece together ideas about the series’ sprawling mythology. Steadily, as Wikipedia also became a persistent fixture in my online media diet, I found myself using the site in a similar manner, often going down “Wikipedia holes” wherein I bounced from page to page, topic to topic, probing for knowledge of topics both familiar and obscure. This newfound ability to find, consume, and interact with a universe of ideas previously diffuse among various types of sources and institutions made me feel empowered to more readily self- direct my intellectual interests.
    [Show full text]
  • Russian Museums Visit More Than 80 Million Visitors, 1/3 of Who Are Visitors Under 18
    Moscow 4 There are more than 3000 museums (and about 72 000 museum workers) in Russian Moscow region 92 Federation, not including school and company museums. Every year Russian museums visit more than 80 million visitors, 1/3 of who are visitors under 18 There are about 650 individual and institutional members in ICOM Russia. During two last St. Petersburg 117 years ICOM Russia membership was rapidly increasing more than 20% (or about 100 new members) a year Northwestern region 160 You will find the information aboutICOM Russia members in this book. All members (individual and institutional) are divided in two big groups – Museums which are institutional members of ICOM or are represented by individual members and Organizations. All the museums in this book are distributed by regional principle. Organizations are structured in profile groups Central region 192 Volga river region 224 Many thanks to all the museums who offered their help and assistance in the making of this collection South of Russia 258 Special thanks to Urals 270 Museum creation and consulting Culture heritage security in Russia with 3M(tm)Novec(tm)1230 Siberia and Far East 284 © ICOM Russia, 2012 Organizations 322 © K. Novokhatko, A. Gnedovsky, N. Kazantseva, O. Guzewska – compiling, translation, editing, 2012 [email protected] www.icom.org.ru © Leo Tolstoy museum-estate “Yasnaya Polyana”, design, 2012 Moscow MOSCOW A. N. SCRiAbiN MEMORiAl Capital of Russia. Major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation center of Russia and the continent MUSEUM Highlights: First reference to Moscow dates from 1147 when Moscow was already a pretty big town.
    [Show full text]
  • Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere
    THE RESEARCHING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION SERIES THE RESEARCHING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION SERIES CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE EUROPEAN MEDIASPHERE THE INTELLECTUAL WORK OF THE 2011 ECREA EUROPEAN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL Ljubljana, 2011 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE EUROPEAN MEDIASPHERE. The Intellectual Work of the 2011 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School. Edited by: Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Nico Carpentier, Hannu Nieminen, Pille Pruulmann-Venerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Ebba Sundin and Tobias Olsson. Series: The Researching And Teaching Communication Series Series editors: Nico Carpentier and Pille Pruulmann-Venerfeldt Published by: Faculty of Social Sciences: Založba FDV For publisher: Hermina Krajnc Copyright © Authors 2011 All rights reserved. Reviewer: Mojca Pajnik Book cover: Ilija Tomanić Trivundža Design and layout: Vasja Lebarič Language editing: Kyrill Dissanayake Photographs: Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, François Heinderyckx, Andrea Davide Cuman, and Jeoffrey Gaspard. Printed by: Tiskarna Radovljica Print run: 400 copies Electronic version accessible at: http://www.researchingcommunication.eu The 2011 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School (Ljubljana, August 14-27) was supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus Intensive Programme project (grant agreement reference number: 2010-7242), the University of Ljubljana – the Department of Media and Communication Studies and the Faculty of Social Sciences, a consortium of 22 universi- ties, and the Slovene Communication
    [Show full text]
  • Mirrorshade Women: Feminism and Cyberpunk
    Mirrorshade Women: Feminism and Cyberpunk at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Carlen Lavigne McGill University, Montréal Department of Art History and Communication Studies February 2008 A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication Studies © Carlen Lavigne 2008 2 Abstract This study analyzes works of cyberpunk literature written between 1981 and 2005, and positions women’s cyberpunk as part of a larger cultural discussion of feminist issues. It traces the origins of the genre, reviews critical reactions, and subsequently outlines the ways in which women’s cyberpunk altered genre conventions in order to advance specifically feminist points of view. Novels are examined within their historical contexts; their content is compared to broader trends and controversies within contemporary feminism, and their themes are revealed to be visible reflections of feminist discourse at the end of the twentieth century. The study will ultimately make a case for the treatment of feminist cyberpunk as a unique vehicle for the examination of contemporary women’s issues, and for the analysis of feminist science fiction as a complex source of political ideas. Cette étude fait l’analyse d’ouvrages de littérature cyberpunk écrits entre 1981 et 2005, et situe la littérature féminine cyberpunk dans le contexte d’une discussion culturelle plus vaste des questions féministes. Elle établit les origines du genre, analyse les réactions culturelles et, par la suite, donne un aperçu des différentes manières dont la littérature féminine cyberpunk a transformé les usages du genre afin de promouvoir en particulier le point de vue féministe.
    [Show full text]
  • The Agenda Setting Hypothesis in the New Media Environment Las Hipótesis De La Agenda Setting En El Nuevo Entorno Mediático
    The agenda setting hypothesis in the new media environment Las hipótesis de la agenda setting en el nuevo entorno mediático NATALIA ARUGUETE1 The aim of this paper is to review El objetivo de este trabajo es the literature that discusses the basic realizar una revisión de la literatura premises of theoretical and empirical que discute premisas básicas de studies on Agenda Setting theory, los estudios teóricos y empíricos and to propose a “new frontier” in realizados desde la teoría de la the relationship between traditional Agenda Setting y propone una elite media and new media. The “nueva frontera” en la relación objective is to explore the extent entre los medios tradicionales to which the dynamics of the flow de elite y los nuevos medios. Se of information created in new procura explorar en qué medida media –particularly in blogs and la dinámica de circulación de Twitter– is distorting the boundaries información generada en los nuevos of the traditional postulates of this medios –fundamentalmente en los theoretical perspective. blogs y Twitter– está sesgando los límites existentes en los postulados tradicionales de esta perspectiva teórica. KEY WORDS: Agenda setting, new PALABRAS CLAVE: Agenda setting, media, Twitter, weblog, media nuevos medios, Twitter, weblog, agenda. agenda mediática 1 CONICET y Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina. Correo electrónico: [email protected] Castro Barros 981, PB 2, C1217 ABI; Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1571-9224 Fecha de recepción: 17/08/2015. Aceptación: 20/07/2016. Núm. 28, enero-abril, 2017, pp. 35-58. ISSN 0188-252x 35 36 Natalia Aruguete INTRODUCTION The media ecosystem has experienced a 180-degree turn.
    [Show full text]
  • The Media Democracy Agenda the Strategy and Legacy of Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J
    The Media Democracy Agenda The Strategy and Legacy of Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps by Victor Pickard and Pawel Popiel Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Published by the Benton Foundation The Media Democracy Agenda The Strategy and Legacy of FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps This Benton Foundation publication is written by Victor Pickard and Pawel Popiel. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. A copy of this license is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us Please include the following attribution when citing this report: Pickard, Victor and Pawel Popiel. September 2018. The Media Democracy Agenda: The Strategy and Legacy of FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps. Evanston, IL: Benton Foundation. https://www.benton.org/publications/Copps-legacy Benton Foundation 727 Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60202 www.benton.org Table of Contents Foreword ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 4 Historical Context ......................................................................................................................... 5 Biographical Background .............................................................................................................. 7 Democratic Principles
    [Show full text]
  • Making It Pay to Be a Fan: the Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry
    City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 9-2018 Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry Andrew McKinney The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2800 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] MAKING IT PAY TO BE A FAN: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DIGITAL SPORTS FANDOM AND THE SPORTS MEDIA INDUSTRY by Andrew G McKinney A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Sociology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2018 ©2018 ANDREW G MCKINNEY All Rights Reserved ii Making it Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sport Fandom and the Sports Media Industry by Andrew G McKinney This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Sociology in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Date William Kornblum Chair of Examining Committee Date Lynn Chancer Executive Officer Supervisory Committee: William Kornblum Stanley Aronowitz Lynn Chancer THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK I iii ABSTRACT Making it Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sport Fandom and the Sports Media Industry by Andrew G McKinney Advisor: William Kornblum This dissertation is a series of case studies and sociological examinations of the role that the sports media industry and mediated sport fandom plays in the political economy of the Internet.
    [Show full text]
  • Methodological Challenges in the Transition Towards Online Audience Research
    . Volume 13, Issue 1 May 2016 Methodological challenges in the transition towards online audience research David Mathieu, Juliane Finger, Roskilde University, Denmark Universität Hamburg, Germany Miguel Vicente-Mariño, Bojana Romic, Universidad de Valladolid, Independent Researcher, Spain Denmark Maria José Brites, Minna Saariketo, Lusophone University of Porto University of Tampere, Finland and Communication and Riitta Tammi, Society Research Centre, Aalto University, Finland Portugal Marisa Torres da Silva, Inês Amaral, New University of Lisbon, Universidade Autónoma de Portugal Lisboa, Portugal Liliana Pacheco, Niklas A. Chimirri, Lisbon University Institute, Roskilde University, Denmark Portugal (With a contribution from Félix Ortega, University of Salamanca, Spain) Abstract: This review of the literature published between 2005 and 2014 presents an overview of the methodological environment in which audience research is transiting towards the study of online audiences. Online audience research is a mix of long-established research rationales, Page 289 Volume 13, Issue 1 May 2016 methodical adaptations, new venues and convergent thinking. We discuss four interconnected, and sometimes contradictory, methodological trends that characterize this current environment: 1) the expansion of online ethnography and the continued importance of contextualization, 2) the influence of big data and an emphasis on uses, 3) the reliance on mixed methods and the convergence of different rationales of research, and 4) the ambiguous nature of online data and the ethical considerations for the conduct of research. In spite of a massive research activity, there remain gaps and underprivileged areas that call for a re-prioritization of research. In the conclusion of this paper, we offer recommendations to orient future research. Keywords: Online Audience, New Media, Research Method, Methodology, Literature Review, Big Data, Ethnography, Contextualization, Ethics, Mixed Method, Convergence.
    [Show full text]