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| Monologic News Model |
Q: What means this, dialogic news?
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| Dialogic News Model |
A: Mikhail Bakhtin. We define dialogic in opposition to monologic.
Q: You talk in riddles.
A: Not at all. I’m drawing on literary theory to explain media theory. A monologue is a soliloquy. There is only one direction. A monologist monopolizes. Bakhtin identified dialogic literature as being that which is in communication with other works. It goes in two directions; past literatures are altered by present ones.
Same thing is happening with media nowadays.
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Voiceover
Mikhail Bakhtin may have been referring to dialogues between writers
and their works of literature. Applying literary theory to media theory: Web
2.0 has resulted in news media evolving from a monologic model into a dialogic
one.
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