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Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South

Participatory Journalism in Africa: Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South

Mawindi Mabweazara, Hayes
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Series: Disruptions

General ReferenceWriting InstructionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032002131
ISBN13: 9781032002132
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book offers an African perspective on how news organisations are embracing digital participatory practices as part of their everyday news production, dissemination and audience engagement strategies.

Drawing on empirical evidence from news organisations in sub-Saharan Africa, Participatory Journalism in Africa investigates and maps out professional practices emerging with journalists' direct interactions with readers and sources via online user comment spaces and social media platforms. Using a social constructivist approach, the book focuses on the challenges relating to the elite-centric nature of active participation on the platforms, while also highlighting emerging ethical and normative dilemmas. The authors also point to the hidden structural controls to participation and user engagement associated with artificial intelligence, chatbots and algorithms. These obstacles, coupled with low digital literacy levels and the well-established pitfalls of the digital divide, challenge the utopian view that in Africa interactive digital technologies are the sine qua non spaces for democratic participation.

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