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The Active Recipient:
Participatory Journalism Through the Lens of the
Dewey-Lippmann Debate
ORIGINAL ARTICLE - ISOJ 2011
Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia, Canada
David Domingo, Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain
Ari Heinonen, University of Tampere, Finland
Steve Paulussen, University of Antwerp, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Ghent University, Belgium
Thorsten Quandt, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Zvi Reich, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Jane B. Singer, University of Iowa, USA
Marina Vujnovic, Monmouth University, USA
Professional news outlets are providing numerous opportunities for the
public to contribute. This study draws on the perspectives of Walter
Lippmann and John Dewey to examine how journalists view participatory
journalism. Based on interviews with journalists from two dozen newspa-
per websites, as well as a consideration of those sites, we suggest that
news professionals view the user as an active recipient of the news. As
active recipients, users are framed as idea generators and observers of
newsworthy events at the start of the journalistic process, and then in an
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Belgium
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Alfred Hermida is an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media
scholar and journalism educator. He is an assistant professor at the
Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia, Canada.
His research into digital journalism and social media has been published
in Journalism Practice and M/C Journal. Hermida was a BBC journalist for
16 years, helping to found the BBC News website.
David Domingo, PhD, is a senior lecturer in online journalism at the De-
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gona, Spain. His research interests include online journalists’ professional
ideology and work routines, as well as participatory journalism and con-
vergence. He is co-editor, with Chris Paterson, of Making Online News:
The Ethnography of New Media Production (Peter Lang, 2008).
Ari Heinonen, PhD, is journalism teacher and researcher in the Depart-
ment of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tam-
pere, Finland. A former newspaper journalist, he has focused his aca-
demic research on explorations of the changing nature of professionalism
in journalism, concepts of journalism in the new media era and journalistic
ethics.
Steve Paulussen, PhD, is a part-time lecturer in journalism studies at
both the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, as well
as a senior researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His main research
kpvgtguvu"nkg"kp"vjg"Ýgnf"qh"lqwtpcnkuo"uvwfkgu."yjgtg"jg"jcu"rwdnkujgf"qp"developments in online journalism, newsroom convergence and the so-
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Thorsten Quandt, Dr. phil. habil. is a professor in Communication Stud-
ies / Interactive Media and Online Communication at the University of
Hohenheim, Germany. His widely published research includes studies on
online journalism, media evolution, network communication and computer
games.
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ies at the Department of Communication, Ben Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel. The author of Sourcing the News, (Hampton Press, 2009),
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his research interests focus on online news, sociology of news, and
sourcing and authorship in journalism.
Jane B. Singer is an associate professor in the School of Journalism
and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa, USA, and a visiting
professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Communication at the
University of Central Lancashire, UK. Her research explores digital jour-
nalism, including changing roles, perceptions, norms and practices.
Marina Vujnovic, PhD, is an assistant professor at Monmouth University,
USA. The author of Forging the Bubikopf Nation: Journalism, Gender and
Oqfgtpkv{"kp"Kpvgtyct"[wiquncxkc"*Rgvgt"Ncpi."422;+."jgt"rtkoct{"Ýgnfu"qh"research are participatory journalism and new media studies, media his-
tory and gender, critical political economy, and cultural studies.
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