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35; 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 kpvgtrtgvkxg tqng cu eqoogpvcvqtu yjq tgÞgev wrqp rtqhguukqpcnn{ rtq- duced material. ÐXkukqp ku c urgevcvqt. jgctkpi ku c rctvkekrcvqt.Ñ *Fgyg{ 3;49< 43;+ Ecnnu hqt vjg rwdnke vq rctvkekrcvg kp uqog ujcrg qt hqto kp lqwtpcn/ kuo jcxg dgeqog cnoquv uvcpfctf qp pgyu ygdukvgu0 Xkukvqtu vq pgyu ukvgu ctg eqpukuvgpvn{ wtigf vq ugpf kp c rjqvq. eqoogpv qp c uvqt{ qt ujctg c nkpm qp c uqekcn pgvyqtm0 Kp vjg lqwtpcnkuo qh vjg 43uv egpvwt{. pgyu qticpk¦cvkqpu ctg rtqxkfkpi oqtg qrrqtvwpkvkgu vjcp gxgt dghqtg hqt vjg rwdnke vq eqpvtkdwvg vq rtqhguukqpcnn{ gfkvgf
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Page 1: The active recipient: Participatory journalism through the lens of the  Dewey-Lippmann debate

35;

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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