The places where citizens live their everyday lives constitute an important yet under-researched context for public connection. This paper presents an in-depth analysis of how citizens’ everyday media use entails connecting to local publics, and how an orientation towards local publics constitutes a component of public connection more broadly. Methodologically, the paper draws on recurring interviews and logging of the weekly media use and information practices of 24 citizens, thus combining insights on people’s everyday media use with their experiences of media, platforms, and content. The findings highlight the importance of media for citizens’ local public connection and the value of accounting for the local level in researching public connection, suggesting that the local level is more important to public connection than what is generally accounted for in the literature, which to some extent have devalued important aspects of ordinary citizens’ public connection.

This study aims to develop a mobile-based learning media to support the implementation of the Project Citizen model and to analyze its effectiveness in civic education within higher education settings. The research utilized a Research and Development (RD) approach, applying the ADDIE model which consists of five phases: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The development process involved one media expert, one subject matter expert, and 52 university students as participants. Validation from the media expert resulted in a score of 91%, indicating the media is very feasible. Similarly, the material expert gave a validation score of 94%, also categorized as very feasible. Student feedback, collected through questionnaires, yielded an effectiveness score of 83%, classifying the media as very effective. The findings demonstrate that the developed mobile-based Project Citizen learning media is both feasible and effective. It supports active civic engagement and structured learning, aligning well with the objectives of civic education in higher education institutions. The mobile-based Project Citizen media is a viable and effective tool for enhancing civic education. Its integration into the curriculum can facilitate meaningful student participation in democratic practices through project-based learning.

Destinasi wisata dan kawasan Madura memiliki prospek bagus dan cukup potensial untuk dipasarkan melalui media komunikasi digital. Selama ini komunikasi pemasaran dan medium masih belum atraktif dan massif dalam menjangkau konsumen yang lebih luas. Melalui pengembangan content creator dan citizen media pemasaran kawasan dan pariwisata Madura diyakini akan lebih efektif. Penelitian ini menggunakan riset aksi. Pendekatan yang akan dilakukan penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif menggunakan studi kasus. Riset ini juga menjadi riset pengembangan dan akan menghasilkan pengembangan kapasitas para pelaku content creator dan citizen media online Madura digital. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan media komunikasi warga (citizen media) yang dikembangkan ini sifatnya interaktif dinamis berkelanjutan. Dengan memanfaatkan media grup wa, facebook, dan youtube sebagai media pematik utama. Dalam konteks pengembangan konten kreator wisata Madura maka yang dilakukan adalah dengan membuat komunitas sadar wisata dan mendorong gerakan aktivism wisata yang akan menjadi pioner para content creator didalam mengisi content creatif melalui facebook dan youtube. Langkah awal adalah dengan membuat grup wa dan fb untuk menjadi kanal besar berbagai laporan dan liputan yang sifatnya naratif. Kemudian link youtube untuk kanal yang sifatnya audio vidual. Media warga citizen media publisitas selanjutkan dikembangkan sebagai media massa berbasis online secara dinamis dan berkelanjutan dengan bertumpu pada partisipasi netizen report diantaranya adalah 1) konsumen media dapat berkomunikasi dengan reporter atau kontributor yang didukung oleh teknologi Web 2.0 secara umum 2) setiap post memiliki bagian komentar dimana konsumen media dapat memberikan pendapat mereka 3) Disetiap artikel, terdapat nama dan kontak reporter sehingga konsumen media bisa bertanya, memberikan kritik atau koreksi 4) Terdapan ikon bola mata untuk menunjukkan sudah berapa kali artikel tersebut dibaca Penguatan kapasitas content creator Madura dan pengembangan citizen media online Madura sebagai pusat gagasan dan ide warga Madura secara berkelanjutan. Selain itu juga menjadi salah satu pelaksanaan program MBKM. Riset ini penting dilakukan sebagai upaya untuk pengembangan kapasitas pelaku content creator dan pengembangan media online digital warga Madura. Tourist destinations in the Madura region have good prospects and are quite potential to be marketed through digital communication media. So far, marketing communication and conventional mediums are still not attractive and massive in reaching a wider range of consumers. Through the development of content creators and citizen media, Madura regional marketing and tourism are believed to be more effective. The approach carried out in this study is a qualitative approach using case studies. The results of the study show that the citizen media developed is interactive, dynamic and sustainable. By utilizing the media of the WhatsApp group, Facebook, and Youtube as the main promotional media. In the context of the development of Madura tourism content creators, what is done is to create a tourism awareness community and encourage the tourism activism movement which will be a pioneer for content creators in filling in creative content through Facebook and YouTube. The first step is to create social media such as WhatsApp and Facebook group to become a large channel for various reports and coverage that are narrative in nature. Then the Youtube link for the channel is audio visual. Citizen media publicity media will continue to be developed as a dynamic and sustainable online-based mass media based on the participation of netizens. The results of this research are expected to increase the capacity of content creators and digital citizen media in Madura.

Review of: Nigeria’s Digital Diaspora: Citizen Media, Democracy, and Participation, Farooq A. Kperogi (2020) Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 274 pp., ISBN 978-1-58046-982-1, h/bk, $130

Research has noted that political content on social media, both accurate and fake, may lead users to reconsider their political opinions and be persuaded. This study contributes to this topic by examining how political attitude change in social media unfolds according to users’ perceptions. Our findings, based on in-depth interviews with 30 Spanish social media users, show how the centrality of social media in citizens’ everyday life nudges them into a persuasive relationship in these ecologies. We conceptualize this dynamic relationship as social media symbiosis , an analogy that draws on the biological concept of symbiosis, and that explains the characteristics of perceived online persuasion: (1) the primacy of social media persuasion over other information sources, (2) its gradual and evolutionary nature, and (3) the persuasive relationships in which users may engage: mutualism, in which both sender and receiver reciprocally benefit and persuade each other; and parasitism, in which fake news creators harmfully persuade receivers while benefitting. Our study contributes to extant literature by theorizing about the persuasive relationship in which users perceive to engage in social media, and the rationales that facilitate it.

The surge of disinformation in the digital sphere following the COVID-19 pandemic presents a considerable threat to democratic principles in contemporary societies. In response, multiple fact-checking platforms and citizen media literacy initiatives have been promoted. The fact checker has indeed become a new professional profile demanded by the sector. In this context, this research delves into the study of digital skills applied to information verification by journalism students. Adopting a comprehensive understanding of digital skills that extends beyond technical proficiency to encompass a shift in mindset, journalism students’ perceptions of their verification abilities are examined using a quantitative survey technique. This examination is based on an original list of competencies prepared specifically for this study. The results indicate that journalism students demonstrate awareness of the implications of disinformation, exhibiting scepticism towards content from unfamiliar sources or displaying clear signs of deceptive intent. Furthermore, they emphasise the importance of verification and fact-checking practices and express confidence in their proficiency in analysis, critical thinking, and social skills. However, their confidence in handling computer applications for verification and specialisation in data journalism is comparatively lower. Notably, significant gender disparities were observed in these areas, with women exhibiting greater confidence in social skills, collaborative work, and innovation, while men displayed a heightened proficiency in computer applications. Consequently, there is a need for improvements in teaching practices, which could potentially create new job opportunities for journalism students.

This research explores the urgency of Islamic political education through social media in shaping citizens' understanding of Islamic values. The research approach uses qualitative methods and content analysis by taking data from interviews and social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube. Through a qualitative approach, this research answers key questions related to the urgency of Islamic political education, the impact of social media, and citizen participation in the presidential election process. The Humanistic Theory of Political Education is the basis for understanding how Islamic political education can shape citizen understanding and participation. The research results show that social media is an effective channel for spreading Islamic political education. Islamic political education through social media has a strategic role in shaping citizens' understanding and participation in the presidential election. The implications of this research can be used to improve the quality of Islamic political education and utilize social media as an effective tool for spreading Islamic values ​​in the political realm.

Abstract: This discussion centers on Timeka Tounsel's book Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic (Routledge, 2022). In this meeting, participants examined the various ways in which Black women's empowerment became a commercial, image-driven enterprise and the ways Tounsel's methodology unpacks issues of race, gender, power, markets, identity, and visibility. Black Girl Magic, a central construct of the book, was a phrase coined in a 2013 tweet proclaiming Black women's resilience, which, less than five years later, was employed regularly commercially. A significant part of this book conversation discusses how the book explores how Essence , under the leadership of Susan L. Taylor, encouraged self-branding and conscious consumerism for Black women. The conversation also discusses how the book includes case studies of campaigns led by Black women and companies' corporate social responsibility efforts. Lastly, the book covers positive outcomes where media producers have used the idea of Black Girl Magic to advance more inclusive visions of media citizenship for Black women.

ABSTRACT Previous studies on the translation of sexuality into Chinese have been primarily limited to literary texts and scientific works. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the fansubbing of queer audiovisual material into Chinese. Against the backdrop of a global digital expansion of feminist and LGBTQ+ activists, this paper examines the translation of sexuality via social media. It focuses on the translations of JoinFeminism and Zhihe Society, two grassroots groups committed to addressing gender and sexuality issues in China. This paper uses Gideon Toury’s translation norms to analyse how the two groups collectively highlight sexuality as a means of resisting the repression of sexuality in the mainstream media. Moreover, it investigates the implications of the groups’ gender-sensitive translation and discusses their creation of an alternative sexual discourse. Drawing on insights from various areas of study such as fansubbing, feminist/queer translation and citizen media, this paper argues that the two groups’ translations, as a form of self-mediation, contribute to a specific type of feminist/queer activism in China: one that is less obsessed with political rights, but uses translation and social media to disseminate knowledge related to sexual diversity and therefore to create an online counter-discourse on sexuality.

Media have played a central role in developing democracy. It expects to provide citizens with the space or sphere where issues of importance to a community are discussed and debated. It encourages deliberation and civic participation. Since the New Order regime (1966-1998) collapsed, the media system in Indonesia has not only experienced ‘democratization but has given way to increasing corporations and liberalization of the media market. This condition has led to media oligopoly and the concentration of ownership which endangered the process of democracy in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the advancement of digital technologies and converged platforms are making media more ubiquitous. They also offer opportunities to reshape citizen media practices, especially in relation to the political and cultural spheres. The complexity of the citizen-consumers relationship with the media and the ways in which the practices of media consumption may contribute to the democratic condition in Indonesia. The objectives of this study aim to explore the theoretical framework of how people are (dis)connected toward public concerns and how they develop skills to cope with the range of civic practices (from access to information and evaluation to deliberative process and civic engagement) as part of the role as a citizen. Moreover, this study investigates the ways in which media interact both in developing or undermining civic practices.

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La pandemia provocada por el covid-19 impactó la esfera pública digital y obligó a los influencers a reflexionar sobre su agencia y rol social. Los usuarios y comunidades virtuales ampliaron su demanda informativa hacia espacios políticos informales donde conviven prácticas vinculadas al ocio y al entretenimiento. Este estudio exploratorio de tipo cualitativo está basado en entrevistas a profundidad a 13 influencers peruanos de distintos alcances y temáticas con la finalidad de comprender su proceso de adaptación en este escenario y sus perspectivas como ciudadanos mediáticos. Se concluye que la relación entre los influencers y sus comunidades puede adquirir un nuevo sentido de mayor compromiso cívico y social en un contexto crítico, aportando valor a partir de contenidos que complementan la información y el entretenimiento.

In many regions of the world, increasing use of media technologies for activism is shifting dynamics of peace and conflicts, particularly in fragile societies. However, there has been an extensive focus on the practical use of these media platforms, ignoring the social processes by which the latter becomes significant for different people. This article examines how citizens� everyday media practices are helping shape the dynamics of peace and conflict in fragile societies. The study used mixed methods, administering 241 cross-sectional survey questionnaires to members of the public and 18 structured interviews to peacebuilding organisations in the counties of Nairobi and Nakuru, Kenya. This study finds that citizen media practices are influencing (peace) activism because they help shape patterns of information use and engagement in actions furthering or undermining peace. Therefore, the article argues that while the increasing use of media technologies for activism may expand opportunities for accessing information and engagement, there are specific ways in which they can undermine peace, that is, help shape the dynamics of salient social processes.

This article explores how acts of citizenship are negotiated across populist, political, and networked mediascapes. This is done through a discursive analysis of rights-claims originating in a YouTube video depicting a young boy, who is denied broccoli at a refugee detainment and repatriation centre in Denmark. Besides the video the data consists of digital views and comments, texts sourced from citizen media publications, social media sites, digitally born and mainstream media. We make a distinction between alternative/citizen media, digitally born and mainstream media to examine how different types of media play a role in discursively constructing populist logics. Our key findings show that alternative/citizen media forward political acts and rights-claims for the people by the people, whereas mainstream media generally invite elite sources to speak for the people. Finally, digitally born media encompass elements of both, thus questioning journalistic boundaries. The networked media thereby produce the discursive construction of “the rights of the people” as an empty signifier.

Gilles Deleuze's early reflections on assemblage identify the idea of the diagram or possibility space as a framework to suggest the ways in which the assembling of technology and human practices merge to create distinctive and innovative new assemblages. Yet routinely it is the technological advances of the 21st century that receive the most revered credit for shifts within citizen-based video activism. Essential to the new and often undefined waves of digital documentary birthed in scattered alcoves of social activism and human rights movements are the relationships between the components of these assemblages. Particularly influential are the facilitating agents spearheading the means to digital video literacy that allow these narratives to be shared. Conducted over three years, my Ph.D. research has examined very specific emerging video practices rooted in social activism in a number of global settings. My fieldwork has sought out citizen media makers in order to discuss how these practitioners have approached their nascent video activism with the goal of identifying properties that might allow these surfacing video practices to become sustainable over time. This paper examines and critiques specific elements that these particular forms of video activism confront in their own unique global possibility spaces. Moreover, as traditional methods of video distribution and video recording continue to change even further through online platforms and mobile technology, how might we begin to identify emerging forms of citizen-based video activism and documentary media?

Book Review - Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges

The digitization of newspapers has opened up new possibilities for user involvement, yet established practices in the media industry hinder news organisations from fully exploiting the many new opportunities that exist in the age of the Internet and social media. In this conceptual and interdisciplinary article, we explain how news actors’ strategic choices for innovation related to citizen collaboration and knowledge creation leads to distinct ideal types for participatory business models for news organisations, which we label the three C’s (citizen reporting, citizen journalism, and citizen media). We contribute to the business model innovation literature by pointing to which specific parts of a business model that news actors need to change in order to cut their production costs, as well as contributing to innovation theory by showing that the three C’s is a continuum of innovational steps. We develop further the donation strategy for user involvement by discussing citizen collaboration in different parts of the journalistic value chain. We conclude that news actors need to rock their boats in order to innovate their business models in line with today's media landscape.

The journalistic style is a sociocultural phenomenon becoming more common in our reality because of the continuous exposition of media in citizens’ experience. This exposition formulates our conception, reinterpretation and construction of the world, as well as it allows us to get to know a great diversity of perspectives among one single concept. Throughout the following journalistic article, the journalistic style has been reconstructed to make students understand and learn new methods of communication regarding the linguistic and communicative norms that media possesses. Moreover, students will be able to learn the different essential features that compose the process of newspaper creation: journalistic article structuration, journalistic cohesion, advertisement production, sections that compose the journalistic piece, etc. Indeed, the aim was to teach and study the digitalization of the English language in a journalist style, thus, using the language in new formats and linguistic contexts. For this study, a group of students belonging to the second year of Secondary Education has been selected. The learning situation was initially based on the comprehension and interpretation of the journalist production of newspapers’ productions and eventually, a newspaper was created. Two major skills were developed during the learning of English as a foreign language: reading comprehension and written production. The results obtained were positive: Pupils demonstrated digital structures learning, assimilation of uses of English regarding descriptive and persuasive uses and knowledge about areas and structuration of newspapers.

يعيش الوطن العربي مرحلة تتسم بتسارع الأحداث والتحولات المتلاحقة منذ بداية الألفية الثانية متزامنا مع التطور في تکنولوجيا الاتصال والإعلام والذي أصبحت تقنياته المتقدمة وأدواته الرقمية في متناول المواطن العربي البسيط. فظهرت صحافة المواطن ثم إعلام المواطن کأوعية تفاعلية استفاد منها المواطن العربي في مواجهة بعض الأنظمة المستبدة وإصلاح منظومة الحکم والدفاع عن حقوق الإنسان وتعزيز دور المجتمع المدني في محاربة الفساد ونقد المنظومة الثقافية والتقليدية العربية. لذلک سعت هذه الدراسة إلى تقييم إعلام المواطن في نشرات أخبار الفضائيات العربية وخاصة التي تبث نشرات متخصصة تفاعلية تعتمد کليا على مشارکة المواطنين وتفاعلهم في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي، وکذا معرفة کيفية تناول ومعالجة تلک الأخبار للقضايا المثارة في الوطن العربي، کما أن هذه الدراسة تتحقق من فاعلية متغيرات نظرية الثراء الإعلامي ونظرية الأطر باعتبارها نموذجا واحد، فتعدد الوسائط واللغة والتعليق ونشر الفيديوهات والصور والموسيقى وعرض البيانات وتفاعلية نشر الأخبار الذي تتيحه مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي يعد ثراءا إعلاميا، لتأتي بعدها نظرية الأطر محددة ملامح واضحة لأخبار إعلام المواطن من خلال إعطائها سمات ونبره معينة أو الترکيز على جانب معين في الحدث وإغفال آخر أو الحذف وغيرها من أدوات التأطير. فقد تم اختيار عينة الدراسة لنشرة عربية تفاعلية في شهر مارس 2019م لــ (نشرتکم) التي تبث الساعة السابعة مساءا من قناة الجزيرة والتي تعتمد کليا على مشارکة المواطن العربي وتفاعله في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي، التي تما تحليلها کميا وکيفيا وأظهرت النتائج أن أخبار إعلام المواطن تعد ظاهرة جديدة تختلف في الشکل والمضمون عن أخبار الإعلام التقليدي للفضائيات وأن المرئيات من الصورة والفيديو الانفوجرافيک والموسيقى هي المسيطرة في عرض الأخبار خاصة مع بروز مصادر المدونات المرئية التي يتفاعل معها المواطن العربي ويقوم بعملية النشر، کما برز انخراط المواطن العربي في إبداء رأيه في الشأن العام والحقوق المدنية بجانب القضايا الاجتماعية والاهتمام الإنساني، وأظهرت النتائج أن قيما مدنية تتشکل من خلال تفاعل المواطن في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي من إثارة الاهتمام بقضايا حقوق الإنسان ومعارضة النظام عبر الوسائل السلمية من الاحتجاجات والحملات الإلکترونية وهذا تغير في منظومة الثقافة العربية والتي دلت عليه عملية التغيير في الجزائر والسودان والإفراج عن المعتقلين في بعض الدول العربية نتيجة تفاعل المواطنين في الدفاع عن الحقوق وإنفاذ القانون، کما أظهرت النتائج أن هناک ثراء في أخبار المواطنين في مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي انعکس إيجابيا على الإعلام التقليدي وأصبح مکملا له رغم أن عملية تأطير أخبار إعلام المواطن تم توظيفها في بعض الحالات لصالح توجهات القناة نحو دولا بعينها، وأن الصراع بين بعض الدول العربية کان له تأثيرا على عملية تأطير الأخبار وإثارة الاهتمام نحو قضايا متباينة وجهة النظر حولها، ولکن في مجمل الأمر فإن إعلام المواطن يعد ظاهرة قيمية وذات فاعلية في عملية التغيير وخلق مجتمع يعي بالشئون العامة والحقوق المدنية في مجتمعنا العربي. Abstract. The Arab world is living in Changing Phase rabidly from new century on events and transformation in technology specially, digital media, that new equipment become on hands citizens arab, who uses it face autocrat regimes, remain governance system, defended human rights, modern society developing, and get red off corruption. That’s study going to evolution citizen media in newscast news on arab channels of bulletins, that depend on arab Public by its interaction and participation in social media, and search how treatment that news in arab channel by examining new model, coming from richens theory and frame theory together. There are multimedia come from sits network like poste, comment, video, photos, music, and more effects that means richness, came after, framing operation news by add character or stress, focus on part news, delete, ignore, and use any tools of framing. That study take design sample of newscasts on channel Al Jazeera, one month, March 2019, that newscast based on interaction and participation arab public on social media, we analyses that sample qualitative and quantitative. The mean findings, there are new phenomenon constructer different call at citizen media on content and shape in news's off traditional media, the citizen media depend on visual to present news's like, video, photo, infographic, effectives, motion, music, and some word that interaction with arab publication. The results showed arab citizen engagement in annum affair and participate by him opinion, and modernization dues together social and humane issues. The findings showed the modern values start shape in arab world consequences interaction arab public in new media like stirring intention off humane rights issues, regime opposite, demonstration, electronic campaigns to change in arab traditional, that it successful in Algeria and Sudan, and gladdening some prisoners. The results showed citizen media positive reflex on traditional media and complement its. Moreover there are richness in news's in citizen media but treatment it change towards channel policy and conflict between some arab countries, final the citizen media success to increase the awareness in arab public.

This article traces the intersecting and interstitial spaces of political aesthetics in political street art featuring key activists of the Egyptian uprising of 2011–13 as well as the following struggle. We argue that the complex political expressions displayed in the images as recontextualized and embodied afford the images different roles in citizens’ political and social struggles. We develop three modalities of political street art – emplacement, travelling and conversation – that allow different works different roles in the political formation of subjectivity. In order to understand street art’s role in political subjectivity formation, this article applies visual discursive analyses to two expressions of political street art: first, the stencil of a blue bra, referring to sitt al-banat, a woman who was stripped naked in public as she was beaten unconscious by Egyptian military soldiers; second, the mural of then jailed activist Sanaa Seif in the Copenhagen borough of Christiania.