Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Joanah Gadzikwa and Dr Nicola Jones Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 160 ISBN: 9783843372954
Описание
This book carries work that was part of an academic study for the purposes of completing a master''s degree. This study itself discusses the potential for promoting cyber democracy through interactivity, on the Internet. Both interactivity and cyber democracy will lead to a broadening of the Zimbabwean public sphere by including online newspapers in the media circle. It views interactivity, cyber democracy and the public sphere as central to free expression. Zimbabwean online newspapers are not fully exploiting the Internet''s potentials to promote the threefold ideal for public deliberations identified in this study. The content analysis of 22 Zimbabwean online newspapers revealed that many newspapers are providing interactive tools that are of limited relevance to interactive communication. The different models for assessing interactivity, cyber democracy and the public sphere in the online newspapers that were employed in this study point to very low levels of interactivity, hence...
