Public Media and Marginalized Publics: Online and Offline Engagement Strategies and Local Storytelling Networks^*

* The project would not have been possible without the generous participation of WBEZ's Curious City project and Hearken, and the journalists, listeners and community members who participated in interviews. This work was supported by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; and University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. To access the original research article, please see the full reference and DOI here: Wenzel, Andrea. 2019. “Public Media and Marginalized Publics: Online and Offline Engagement Strategies and Local Storytelling Networks.” Digital Journalism 7 (1): 146–163. doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2017.1398594

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Andrea Wenzel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-7660

Notes

* The project would not have been possible without the generous participation of WBEZ's Curious City project and Hearken, and the journalists, listeners and community members who participated in interviews. This work was supported by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; and University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. To access the original research article, please see the full reference and DOI here: Wenzel, Andrea. 2019. “Public Media and Marginalized Publics: Online and Offline Engagement Strategies and Local Storytelling Networks.” Digital Journalism 7 (1): 146–163. doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2017.1398594

1 Apart from Curious City's editor, and the founder of Hearken, the names of all other interview participants have been omitted or changed.

2 This refers to communication infrastructure theory's concept of “storytelling networks” (Ball-Rokeach, Kim, and Matei 2001; Kim and Ball-Rokeach 2006).

3 Correspondence with Jennifer Brandel, 13 May 2019.

4 For a diagram of Hearken's “story cycle” model: https://www.wearehearken.com/hearken-overview-about/

5 Following the publication of the original longer article, Curious City implemented a process that included marketing materials and circling back to communities after stories broadcast.

6 See for example Sacramento's Capital Public Radio's efforts to use community coordinating councils to engage people on issues related to a documentary series: http://www.capradio.org/media/6434963/From%20Storytelling%20To%20Solutions.pdf

7 See for example the work of Resolve Philadelphia: https://resolvephilly.org/

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Funding

This work was supported by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; and University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.