Abstract The potential of audience participation constitutes a most important characteristic of digital journalism. This article presents an inductive study of audience participation in the production of online news in a Danish context, analysing how audiences participate, and what relationships between journalists and audiences accompany this participation. The article discusses the concept of participation, arguing on the basis of sociological theory that it should be understood as those instances where the audience influences the content of the news through their intentional actions. Applying this definition, it proposes four ideal types of audience participation in the production of online news, namely sharing of information, collaboration, conversation and meta-communication.

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受众参与在线新闻的制作

摘要受众参与的潜力构成了数字新闻的最重要特征。本文介绍了在丹麦语境下对受众参与在线新闻制作的归纳研究，分析了受众如何参与，以及这种参与伴随着记者与受众之间的关系。本文讨论了参与的概念，并根据社会学理论认为应将其理解为受众通过故意行为影响新闻内容的那些情况。应用此定义，它提出了在线新闻制作中四种理想的受众参与类型，即信息共享，协作，对话和元通信。