Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism
Special issue in Digital Journalism: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism features articles from professor II Irene Costera Meijer, and professors Hallvard Moe and Brita Ytre-Arne
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The special issue of Digital Journalism calls for a radical audience turn in journalism studies and features articles discussing different approaches to, as well as challenges of and requirements for pursuing a radical audience turn.
As Swart, Kormelink, Costera Meijer and argue in their article 鈥淎dvancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism鈥�, there is a need for a more radical audience turn in journalism studies. The aim is to 鈥渙pen up the discussion about what counts as the societal roles and functions of journalism鈥攊f any鈥攆rom an audience perspective鈥�.听
Moe and Ytre-Arne鈥檚 contribution to the special issue, 鈥淭he Demographic Significance of Everyday News Use鈥�, approaches the issue of demographic significance of news use, utilizing the concept of public connection. The article discusses challenges of audience centered journalism research, reviews methodological approaches, and proposes media diaries as a methodological approach to understanding how audiences engage with news.听
Moe and Ytre-Arne argue that there is a need to 鈥渧enture beyond mainstream news outputs鈥� to understand 鈥渉ow audiences engage with news as mixed with, and relative to, other aspects of public connection鈥�.听
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