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The participation paradigm in audience research

Livingstone, Sonia ORCID: 0000-0002-3248-9862 (2013) The participation paradigm in audience research. Communication Review, 16 (1-2). pp. 21-30. ISSN 1071-4421

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Identification Number: 10.1080/10714421.2013.757174

Abstract

As today's media simultaneously converge and diverge, fusing and hybridizing across digital services and platforms, some researchers argue that audiences are dead-long live the user! But for others, it is the complex interweaving of continuities and changes that demands attention, especially now that audiencing has become a vital mode of engaging with all dimensions of daily life. This article asks how we should research audiences in a digital networked age. I argue that, while many avenues are being actively pursued, many researchers are concentrating on the notion of participation, asking, on the one hand, what modes of participation are afforded to people by the particular media and communication infrastructures which mediate social, cultural or political spheres of life? And, on the other hand, how do people engage with, accede to, negotiate or contest this as they explore and invent new ways of connecting with each other through and around media? The features of this emerging participation paradigm of audience research are examined in this article.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gcrv20
Additional Information: © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Divisions: Media and Communications
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2013 15:42
Last Modified: 20 Nov 2024 22:15
Projects: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies
Funders: European Science Foundation COST Action IS0906
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49630

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