The video of Alfred Hermida’s presentation at the International Symposium on Online Journalism at UT Austin in April 2011 is now available. The talk draws on the research for the Participatory Journalism book. In the presentation, Prof Hermida suggests that journalists view audiences as “active recipients”, somewhere between passive receivers and active creators of content.

Co-author Alfred Hermida presented a paper drawing on the research for the Participatory Journalism book at the International Symposium on Online Journalism on April 2, 2011. The paper (PDF), The Active Recipient: Participatory Journalism through the Lens of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate, draws on the perspectives of Walter Lippmann and John Dewey on the role of the media […]