Audience feedback in the news media
by Reader, Bill
As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical development of audience feedback, the book considers how news media has changed its approach to accommodating audience participation, and explores how audience feedback can serve the needs of both ind…
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- Full title :Audience feedback in the news media / Bill Reader.
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As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical development of audience feedback, the book considers how news media has changed its approach to accommodating audience participation, and explores how audience feedback can serve the needs of both individuals and collectives in democratic society. Reader writes from a position of authority, having worked as a "letters to the editor" editor and has written numerous research articles and professional essays on the topic over the past 15 years.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 187 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781138775336, 1138775339, 9781138548657, 1138548650
- oclc:ocn886491964
- LC Classification:P96.P83
- Dewey Decimal:302.23
Table of Contents
Audience comments, the spice of history -- "Packets of letters": audience comments before freedom of the press -- "A sure sign of liberty, and a cause of it": audience feedback and the emergence of the free press -- Commodification of comments: professional bias and gatekeeping of letters to the editor -- Professional journalism's transformation of "a quaint tradition" -- Concerning "crackpots": the media's love-hate relationship with feedback -- "In my opinion ... ": commenting as individual agency -- "We, the people ... ": commenting as collective action -- Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an age without fences.
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