Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies

IF 2.7 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Steen Steensen
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Abstract

This article reports findings from an in-depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid-19 pandemic, and it investigates how news, information, and deliberation related to this crisis were facilitated in the communities. The article embarks from ideas of informed citizenship and problems of misinformation and free speech related to the pandemic, and it aims to uncover developments in local democracy in places left behind by local journalism and dominated by platforms. The article argues that “news desert” is not an accurate term describing such places. Instead, such places and their social media platform dependency constitute what is identified as “casual democracies.” In casual local democracies, who and what gets to dominate the local public spheres is difficult to predict, as are the credibility and trustworthiness of local news and information and the interests that local news and information providers serve. Such local democracies are, to a large degree, shaped by informal power structures, individual agency, and the infrastructure of platforms.
在临时民主政体中应对新冠肺炎
本文报道了对丹麦和英国当地新闻业遗留下来的当地社区进行的深入的民族志研究的结果。这项研究是在新冠肺炎大流行期间进行的,主题是由这场大流行确定的,它调查了与这场危机有关的新闻、信息和审议是如何在社区中得到促进的。这篇文章从知情公民的思想以及与疫情相关的错误信息和言论自由问题出发,旨在揭示地方新闻业落后、平台主导的地方民主的发展。文章认为,“新闻沙漠”并不是描述这些地方的准确术语。相反,这些地方及其对社交媒体平台的依赖构成了所谓的“随意民主”。在随意的地方民主国家,谁和什么能够主导地方公共领域很难预测,地方新闻和信息的可信度和可信度以及地方新闻和信息提供商所服务的利益也是如此。这种地方民主在很大程度上是由非正式的权力结构、个人机构和平台基础设施塑造的。
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Media and Communication
Media and Communication COMMUNICATION-
CiteScore
5.80
自引率
3.20%
发文量
108
审稿时长
18 weeks
期刊介绍: Media and Communication (ISSN: 2183-2439) is an international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields
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