Opening-up the black box of participation: a reception study into the conditions of possibility of mediated participatory practices
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Opening-up the black box of participation: a reception study into the conditions of possibility of mediated participatory practices
Original language description
Within the Web 2.0 hype, participation (again) became a key signifier, promising the fulfilment of our democratic fantasies. This chapter aims to add to the debates on the democratic revolution and the political-ideological significance of mediated participation by comparing the reception of two North Belgian participatory media products. One of these case studies is based on the "new" world of a YouTube-like online platform called 16plus, the second case study is based on the "old" concept of access television in a 2002 TV programme called Barometer. In both cases, the reception study shows little enthusiasm or downright rejection from the part of their audiences, although the focus group members still use a maximalist (and almost contradictory) discourse of media democracy, and fiercely critique the mainstream media and their professionals. Through an analysis of these multi-layered audience receptions, this chapter will show that participatory practices are not unconditionally appre
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Media in the Swirl
ISBN
978-81-8274-653-4
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
155-173
Number of pages of the book
338
Publisher name
Pentagon Press
Place of publication
New Delhi
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