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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.
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.
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.
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]
Although citizens express their intention to participate in public engagement activities, in real world, they are less likely to show up. For example, the average turnout at annual town meetings in Massachusetts in 1996 was 7.6 percent which was much lower than the average municipal election turnout of 31.1 percent. [ 36 ]
Researcher Estelle Clements defines digital civics as "the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizens who inhabit the info-sphere and access the world digitally." [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Clements, who was a doctoral researcher at the Dublin Institute of Technology , first put forward this definition in 2010 as part of an educational project done ...
Participatory culture has been around longer than the Internet. The emergence of the Amateur Press Association in the middle of the 19th century is an example of historical participatory culture; at that time, young people were hand typing and printing their own publications.
Individuals learning to produce media themselves is the step that moves citizens from literacy to participation. Fan fiction, community radio (or low-power FM), and hyper-local blogging are just a few ways that citizens can produce media content to participate in the production of alternative media.