Importance Of Participatory Media

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Participatory media technologies break the one-sidedness of traditional media platforms yet inherit improper ideas from audience’s perception of representation. Through participatory media technologies, people are able to aware of the monotonous representative in politics of representation, and by using various kinds of participatory media, people is challenging the stereotype brought by traditional politics of representation. As one of the most significant symbols of the development in the 21st century, participatory media technologies play important roles in the representation of democracy. From the extensive use of participatory media technologies today, it can be concluded that the trend of politics of representation is changing. Participatory media technologies contain features of liberty, equality, and …show more content…

For instance, although female now have more possible representative impressions in Bilibili, the representation of female can never surpass the constraint of being feminine. Comparing to traditional media, Bilibili highlights interaction between users, this feature also restrict the possibility of the politics of representation breaking the basic role of an impression. The openness of participatory media determines the universality of its audience. (Tiansiyu 2015)Everyone can use social media, but people’s understanding in message is diverse, different education backgrounds or different circumstances can all affect audience’s analytical ability. Therefore when an idea expressed by an extent does not fit with the common sense, it will not be accepted by the public sphere since public can not reach an agreement. So the idea of complete freedom in representation under the background of participatory media can never be realized, unless human are able to eliminate stereotypes in the

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