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dc.contributor.authorSteensen, Steen
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-10T11:01:23Z
dc.date.available2023-08-10T11:01:23Z
dc.date.created2023-08-09T15:40:32Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.issn2183-2439
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3083349
dc.description.abstractThis article reports findings from an in‐depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid‐19 pandemic, and it investigates how news, information, and deliberation related to this crisis were facilitated in the communities. The article embarks from ideas of informed citizenship and problems of misinformation and free speech related to the pandemic, and it aims to uncover developments in local democracy in places left behind by local journalism and dominated by platforms. The article argues that “news desert” is not an accurate term describing such places. Instead, such places and their social media platform dependency constitute what is identified as “casual democracies.” In casual local democracies, who and what gets to dominate the local public spheres is difficult to predict, as are the credibility and trustworthiness of local news and information and the interests that local news and information providers serve. Such local democracies are, to a large degree, shaped by informal power structures, individual agency, and the infrastructure of platforms.en_US
dc.description.abstractDealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democraciesen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6807
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleDealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democraciesen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i3.6807
dc.identifier.cristin2165969
dc.source.journalMedia and Communicationen_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 302303en_US


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