15Journalism’s digital publics

Researching the “visual citizen”

Stuart Allan and Chris Peters*

Disruptions associated with either financial or technological change have long garnered most of the attention when considering the democratic challenges facing journalism in a digital era (Pavlik, 2000; Picard, 2014; Usher, 2010). The proliferation of media platforms offering repurposed content has fragmented formerly stable audience profiles to varying degrees (Fletcher & Nielsen, 2017); declining advertising and subscription ...

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