‘Downright dangerous’: Citizen reactions to media diversity issues in public submissions

IF 1.5 3区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Media International Australia Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1177/1329878x231212945
Timothy Koskie
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Despite its prominence in societal and scholarly discourse, a consistent definition and scope for media diversity remains elusive. This leaves ambiguous its characteristics, concerns, and impacts and complicates efforts to achieve its benefits. This study sought a new approach to identifying its role that leverages lived experiences of the public interacting with their media ecosystem. Public submissions to the Media diversity in Australia inquiry presented a unique opportunity to pursue this goal. The 5068 texts were dominated by citizens perspectives that went beyond reframing and redefining media diversity to explain how they saw it affecting their daily lives, families, and communities. Using multi-stage thematic analysis, this study worked to consolidate these diverse and grounded views into the shared themes that confronted citizens, finding concerns about the diminishing reliability of media functions, with losses in media diversity leading to unsatisfactory media performance, media avoidance, and harms for communities and individuals.
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“彻头彻尾的危险”:公众对媒体多样性问题的反应
尽管媒体多样性在社会和学术话语中占有突出地位,但它的一致定义和范围仍然难以捉摸。这使得它的特征、关注点和影响模糊不清,并使实现其利益的努力复杂化。这项研究寻求一种新的方法来确定其作用,利用公众与媒体生态系统互动的生活经验。公众向澳大利亚媒体多样性调查提交的意见为实现这一目标提供了一个独特的机会。5068篇文章以公民的观点为主导,这些观点超越了对媒体多样性的重构和重新定义,解释了他们如何看待媒体多样性对他们的日常生活、家庭和社区的影响。本研究采用多阶段专题分析,将这些不同的、有根据的观点整合到公民面临的共同主题中,发现媒体功能可靠性下降的担忧,媒体多样性的丧失导致媒体表现不理想、媒体回避以及对社区和个人的伤害。
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