Emerging Topics in the Research on Digital Audiences and Participation
Fecha
2013Disciplina/s
Ciencias de la ComunicaciónMateria/s
AudiencesParticipation
Political communication
Media industry
Resumen
This article discusses the many implications of participation in a cross-media scenario where actions and behaviours
of digital audiences are reshaping some key processes in journalism, politics and the media industry.
The development of this research agenda is based on an analysis of a state of the art of the latest researches
in the ield of communication and media studies, as identiied in 26 individual reports, written by members
of Working Group 2 of the Cost Action Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies (TATS). This article
frames these emerging research topics as tensions, arguing that the idea of tension is the best metaphor to
identify and analyse the challenges of the 21st century media landscape