Between individual and collective social effort: Vocabularies of informed citizenship in different information environments

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URL:	https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17240
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-639523
Document Type:	Article
Year of publication:	2023
The title of a journal, publication series:	International Journal of Communication : IJoC
Volume:	17
Page range:	1510-1529
Place of publication:	Los Angeles, Calif.
Publishing house:	The Annenberg Center for Communication
ISSN:	1932-8036
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Humanities > Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Naab 2022-)
Pre-existing license:	Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Subject:	070 News media, journalism, publishing
Keywords (English):	informed citizenship , information disorder , news consumption , comparative research , good citizenship , misinformation
Abstract:	Information disorder and digital media affordances challenge informed citizenship as an ideal and in practice. While scholars have attempted to adapt the normative ideal to contemporary changes and challenges by introducing new metaphors and normative benchmarks, this study investigates citizens’ ideals and practices of informed citizenship by deploying the concept of citizenship vocabularies. Drawing on interviews with citizens from different information environments—Germany and Serbia—we offer a conceptual outline of informed citizenship as an individual and collective social effort. Our findings illustrate the role of the information environment in shaping citizenship vocabularies. We advance the idea of informed citizenship as a relational practice, arguing for a social ontological approach to theorizing informed citizenship today.

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