Reconsidering Informed and Participatory Citizenship in the Current Media Ecosystem
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2021
Authors
Grabe, M.E.
Bas, O.
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Open Access Color
OpenAIRE Downloads
OpenAIRE Views
Abstract
The focus of this chapter is on how changes in the media landscape have forced the reconsideration of the way in which ‘memory’, ‘knowledge’, and ‘informed citizenship’ are understood, defined, and researched. Thus, for example, journalism needs to take account of the phenomenon of so-called news grazing (the active consumption of news by flipping through channels and skipping unwanted material) and that of incidental news exposure (unintended exposure to news when media users go online for non-news functions). Traditional views of informed citizenship (as simply acquiring appropriate facts and information) are challenged by calls to include applied understanding and comprehension of social issues and emotional responses to those issues. The chapter is critical of an excessive reliance on verbal tests of memory and stresses the need to develop visual measures, given that the human brain is better adapted for visual than verbal processing. © Oxford University Press 2021.
Description
Keywords
Comprehension, Incidental exposure, Informed citizenship, Knowledge, Memory, Misinformation, News grazers, Visual knowledge
Turkish CoHE Thesis Center URL
Fields of Science
Citation
3
WoS Q
N/A
Scopus Q
N/A
Source
The Psychology of Journalism
Volume
Issue
Start Page
87
End Page
110