Media Studies 2.0 proposes a new framework for understanding media that recognizes changes in the media landscape. The traditional model of Media Studies 1.0 treats audiences as passive receivers and producers as experts, focuses only on mainstream media, and uses conventional research methods. Media Studies 2.0 focuses on everyday meanings made by diverse audiences, the "long tail" of independent media, embraces international perspectives, and recognizes audiences are already capable interpreters. It uses new participatory research methods that value people's creativity rather than treating them as receivers or producers. This reframes understandings of power and participation in media.