What follows below is some reflections on Dimitra L. Milioni’s recent article “Probing the online counterpublic sphere: the case of Indymedia Athens”, published in Media, Culture & Society.
It’s long(ish). You’ve been warned.
Correspondence – reflections on Dimitra Milioni’s article
June 4, 2009
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AR; on blogs and political participation
June 3, 2009
It has been established that traditional informational media consumption correlates with political participation: in general, the more someone uses the media for informational purposes, the higher the chances that they will also be politically active (I’ll add a brief note on the causality behind this). Homero Gil De Zúñiga and his two colleagues looked at whether this applies in relation to blog consumption too; in an article recently published in New Media & Society.
Sparing the detailed description of methodology (quantitative analysis of surveys), here are the results.
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