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[ecrea] Special Journal Issue on Histories of media(ted) participation (WG2 COST TATS Action)

Mon Jan 27 18:25:32 GMT 2014



Special journal issue on Histories of media(ted) participation
Edited by Nico Carpentier & Peter Dahlgren
CM - Communication Management Quarterly
Nr. 30 (2014)

Free to download from:
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/system/files/pub/CM30-SE-Web.pdf

This special issue takes on the challenge to combine historical research with the study of participatory media, and participation in/through the media. The attention spent on the notion of participation has oscillated over time and within different academic disciplines and societal fields. In recent years, we can see a hopeful celebration of the capacities on online technologies to facilitate (or even embody) participatory practices. Reflections on these 'new' technologies in many cases have led to formulations of strong claims to novelty and uniqueness, in combination with processes of amnesia in relation to the societal roles of old media technologies. As Ekström et al. (2011: 4) write: "by overstating the newness of participatory media, the history of audience activity [and media participation] is made invisible and the present elusively vague." Apart from the need for historical research for its own sake, and the need to show the complexities and differences over time by going back to periods "when old technologies where new" -- to quote Marvin's (1988) book title -- historical research is also very necessary to compensate for the mythologies of novelty that characterize contemporary reflections about 'new' -- or better: online -- media. Today's digital media landscape is of course in constant evolution, and it is important to understand how its patterns of development, not least in regard to its political economy, technical architecture, and socio-cultural usage, embody built-in contingencies that both engender and delimit its efficacy for democratic participation. This special issue contains 6 articles that, each in their own ways, demonstrate the complexities, fluidities and limitations of specific participatory practices, located in the past and present, and the interconnections between different societal fields, such as the technological, the cultural, the political and the journalistic.

Table of Contents

Histories of media(ted) participation: An introduction (p. 7--14)
Nico Carpentier, Peter Dahlgren

Fighting for a regime change through active listening (p. 15--34)
Nelson Ribeiro

For an archeology of online participatory literary writing: Hypertext and hyperfiction (p. 35--54)
Francesca Pasquali

Wrong turns towards revolution? Grassroots media and political participation in Italy (1967-2012) (p. 55--78)
Fausto Colombo

Propaganda, critical media literacy and participation: Tracing memories of the Soviet media (p. 79--104)
Natalija Maz(eikiene, Kristina Juraite

The tales of the three digital cities of Amsterdam: The application of ICT for social and political participation (p. 105--130)
Dennis Beckers, Peter van den Besselaar

Historicising the journalist--audience relationships in the internet era: A case study of the Slovenian newspaper Delo (p. 131--156)
Igor Vobic

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Other publications of WG2 of the TATS COST Action are:

- Special issue on "Interrogating audiences: theoretical horizons of participation" in CM Communication Management Quarterly, 2011, nr. 21. url: http://www.cost.eu/library/publications/12-02-Interrogating-audiences-Theoretical-horizons-of-participation-in-CM-Communication-Management-Quarterly - Special issue on "Public voice and mediated participation" in COMMUNICATIONS. The European Journal of Communication Research, 2012, volume 37, issue 3. url: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/commun.2012.37.issue-3/issue-files/commun.2012.37.issue-3.xml - Special issue on "Audience Research and media management" in the International Journal on Media Management, 2012, volume 14, issue 2. url: http://www.mediajournal.org/ojs/index.php/jmm/issue/view/53. - Special issue on "Networked belonging and networks of belonging" in Observatorio (OBS*), 2012. ulr: http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/issue/view/34 - Special section on "Audience Involvement and New Production Paradigms" in Participations. Journal of audience and reception studies, 2012, volume 9, issue 2. url: http://www.participations.org/Volume%209/Issue%202/contents.htm. - Special section on "COST - audience interaction & participation" in Participations. Journal of audience and reception studies, 2013, volume 10, issue 1. url: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2010/Issue%201/contents.htm. - Special issue on "New media, audience and emotional connectivity" in Sociedad de la Información, 2013, nr. 44. url: http://www.sociedadelainformacion.com/cost_2013/specialissue_44.pdf - Special Issue on "Participatory Journalism: Possibilities and Constraints for Audience Participation" in Medijska istraz(ivanja/Media Research, 2013, volume 19, issue 2. url http://www.mediaresearch.cro.net/

An overview of all WG2 publications can be found on WG2's output page:
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu/node/303

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