Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022

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Workshop: Co-creating the citizen news interface for the 21st century.
The field of journalism is increasingly forced to acknowledge that news consumers and citizens are paying less attention to journalistic media. Tuning out from the news and a rich source of choices in social media and online fora make some dimensions of journalism less central (and often less important) to serve its central democratic function (Peters & Witschge 2014). As one step to face this challenge we are convinced that citizen engagement is a crucial point. In this workshop, we want to bring together citizens (e.g. students or traditional news consumers), media practitioners and citizen science researchers. The aim is to reflect on the kinds of citizen engagement with journalism and other channels of public communication, involving citizens as co-creators of a new kind of (speculative) news interface based on their demands and preferences. Inspired by perceptions of citizens’ daily habits of navigating media, the workshop will be a starting point to rethink the role that journalistic media has in society and democracy, for example in negotiations over pressing social and political issues. We therefore propose to employ a citizen science framework to rethink the participation in civic communication in a complex media environment (D’Ignazio & Zuckermann 2017; Allan & Ewart 2015, Robinson & Wang 2018). The preferred language will be in English and we aim for up to 20 participants. The 1.5 hour of the workshop will be organised in three parts: (1) presentations with Q&A (30min); (2) co-creation exercise (30 min); and (3) discussion of results (30 min): The first part of this workshop will be structured around three/four presentations and discussions engaging with all the participants. The second part of the workshop will be a co-creation activity, where participants will 1) map their daily news and communication habits and 2) speculate on a news interface that would satisfy their needs as citizens to be informed and engaged with society. The third part of the workshop will be a discussion with participants of the results of the exercise and an exploration of how journalistic media in Aarhus could get involved in further activities.

Periode	25 apr. 2022
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Aarhus, DanmarkVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	National