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Civic engagement can take many forms—from individual volunteerism, community engagement efforts, organizational involvement, and electoral participation.These engagements may include directly addressing a problem through personal work, community based, or work through the institutions of representative democracy. [4]
Community engagement is a community-centered orientation based in dialogue. [14] Community engagement enables a more contextualized understanding of community members’ perceptions of the topics and contexts, and facilitates stronger relationships among and between community members.
Public participation, also known as citizen participation or patient and public involvement, is the inclusion of the public in the activities of any organization or project. Public participation is similar to but more inclusive than stakeholder engagement .
The goal of citizen journalists is to increase civic engagement, similar to how the goal civic journalism is to increases civic engagement. Citizen journalists may be influencers as opposed to accredited journalists, but still have a substantial means of conveying their message to the general public.
Wikimania 2007 Citizen Journalism Unconference. Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, [1]: 61 participatory journalism, [2] democratic journalism, [3] guerrilla journalism, [4] grassroots journalism, [5] or street journalism, [6] is based upon members of the community playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.
Participatory media is communication media where the audience can play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating content. [1] Citizen / participatory journalism, citizen media, empowerment journalism and democratic media are related principles.
It is important to note that the participation of the public can occur at many different levels. Due to this ambiguity, modalities for public engagement have been categorized based on the types of information flow and level of involvement of the public and/or sponsor (i.e. academia, government, private sector): [1] [4] [5]
Focus must be inclusive for all, not just the leaders but each and every citizen of that community. While building a community, beliefs are at the base of that community. Some foundational beliefs are functional , ethical , value-laden , social , cultural , spiritual , economic , political , rights-oriented , and valuing of diversity .