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With the growing popularity of social media as a news source, there is a need to explore the audience-inclusion function of these social media platforms for news reporting. It is imperative to explore how the audience uses these platforms... more
With the growing popularity of social media as a news source, there is a need to explore the audience-inclusion function of these social media platforms for news reporting. It is imperative to explore how the audience uses these platforms in the production of news to define the transformative nature of the media and its role in empowering society (the audience) to ‘break’ and tell their own story. Furthermore, it is necessary to understand how these social media platforms encourage audience inclusion and provide opportunities for the audience to participate in the production and dissemination of news items. In understanding this, society will be able to situate the role of emerging social media platforms in news dissemination, especially in the 21st century. The study conceptualised the audience inclusion theory to explore and examine the role of Facebook and Twitter in producing and disseminating news, particularly in reporting the #FeesMustFall campaign. It explored how social med...
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... If one of the goals of psychology is to understand persons, then, how can we ignore the way that persons put experiences into words and use language in social interactions? ... Page 19. 11 (2008) concur that although... more
... If one of the goals of psychology is to understand persons, then, how can we ignore the way that persons put experiences into words and use language in social interactions? ... Page 19. 11 (2008) concur that although 'narrative' is increasingly being put to use in both popular ...
... If one of the goals of psychology is to understand persons, then, how can we ignore the way that persons put experiences into words and use language in social interactions? ... Page 19. 11 (2008) concur that although... more
... If one of the goals of psychology is to understand persons, then, how can we ignore the way that persons put experiences into words and use language in social interactions? ... Page 19. 11 (2008) concur that although 'narrative' is increasingly being put to use in both popular ...
... If one of the goals of psychology is to understand persons, then, how can we ignore the way that persons put experiences into words and use language in social interactions? ... Page 19. 11 (2008) concur that although... more
... If one of the goals of psychology is to understand persons, then, how can we ignore the way that persons put experiences into words and use language in social interactions? ... Page 19. 11 (2008) concur that although 'narrative' is increasingly being put to use in both popular ...