Ordinary people’s media visibility is not inherently democratic.

Evidence

Turner uses the term “demotic turn” to suggest that the growing visibility of “ordinary people” in media should not be understood as fundamentally democratic. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love, 801

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘demotic turn’ as visibility without democracy.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s running distinction between democratized tools and actual democracy in social media. — connects to: The web’s mass reach makes ordinary consumers into potential broadcasters. — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 632; Whether unpaid online activity is expression or exploitation structures the digital labor debate — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 113; Media access structurally favors elites against out-groups whose problems get defined for them — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 851 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Media access structurally favors elites against out-groups whose problems get defined for them #corroborates (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 851