Renés-Arellano, P, Hernandez-Serrano, M, Graham, G orcid.org/0000-0002-9908-4974 et al. (1 more author) (2017) From Prosumer to “Prodesigner”: Participatory News Consumption. Comunicar, XXV (50). pp. 77-87. ISSN 1134-3478
Abstract
New democratic participation forms and collaborative productions of diverse audiences have emerged as a result of digital innovations in the online access to and consumption of news. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework based on the possibilities of Web 2.0. Outlining the construction of a “social logic”, which combines computer and communicative logics, the conceptual framework is theoretically built to explore the evolution of news consumption from a pure circulation of designed products towards a global conversation of proactive news designers. Then, the framework was tested using an empirical database built by the Pew Research Centre, which investigates the future of the news industry, through a large-scale survey with adults. Results show significant differences (by age, gender and educational level) in the forms of participation, access and consumption of news. However, whilst immersed in the culture of Web 2.0 there is a low-level of user participation in news production; far from being proactive news designers, findings suggest that citizens still located in the lower participatory levels of our conceptual framework. Conclusions suggest there is a need for media education providers to carry out training initiatives according to the social logic possibilities through proposed guidelines.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License CC BY-NC 3.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/] |
Keywords: | Social logic; prosumers; media literacy; news consumption; participation; media skill; Web 2.0; media education. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Logistics, Info, Ops and Networks (LION) (LUBS) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC No Ext Ref British Academy SG100163 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2016 09:56 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:13 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3916/C50-2017-07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Grupo Comunicar |
Identification Number: | 10.3916/C50-2017-07 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:104511 |