Review of: The Securitisation of News in Turkey, Journalists as Terrorists? , Natalie Martin (2020) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 134 pp., ISBN 978-3-030-49380-6, h/bk, £49.99 Transmediality in Independent Journalism: The Turkish Case , Dilek Gürsoy (2020) Abingdon: Routledge, 114 pp., ISBN 978-0-36785-913-8, h/bk, £44.99 Discourse and Identity in Turkish Media , Süheyla Nil Mustafa and Ayşe Dilara Bostan (eds) (2021) Oxford: Peter Lang, 188 pp., ISBN 978-3-63182-234-0, p/bk, £31.00 Journalism in Turkey: Practices, Challenges, Opportunities , Devrim İnce and Yurdagül Bezirgan Arar (eds) (2020) Oxford: Peter Lang, 304 pp., ISBN 978-3-63182-886-1, p/bk, £51.00
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In this editorial we reflect on the first ten years of our journal’s mission to bring together voices from the Global North and Global South as a platform for scholars and practitioners to discuss and debate the key issues affecting journalism. We acknowledge the great vision and work of our founding editor, professor Leon Barkho, who is stepping down in his role as principal editor. He has developed and implemented the ideas that have shaped our journal and who championed cultural diversity and gender balance as reflected in our editorial board, from the outset. Stepping up to the role of main editor, Jairo Lugo-Ocando talks about the powerful legacy of the journal in making important and critical contributions to academic debates and practitioners’ work and then explains how we will meet the challenges that lie ahead. We outline our continued commitment to a robust peer-review process, a refresh of our editorial board with younger faces to renew and connect the journal to new trends and areas from the emerging scholarship. We highlight a series of Special Issues that will add to our unique collection and focus on specific themes and our intention to relaunch a prize for best article submitted, in conjunction with a major partner. We introduce the six articles for our latest publication bringing together a selection of themes and authors that opens a series of discussions in new areas.
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Review of: News Values from an Audience Perspective , Martina Temmerman and Jelle Mast (eds) (2021) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 189 pp., ISBN 978-3-03045-045-8, h/bk, $119.99
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There is increased mobile telecommunications penetration across Nigeria. One of the realities connected to such penetration is the news-text services offered by the country’s 9Mobile mobile telecommunications company. This content analysis and covert non-participant observation research examined news entrepreneurial and citizen journalism potentials of the service. Findings show that news SMS service is encouraging, but issues such as delayed delivery and incomplete replications concurrently hamper entrepreneurial and citizen journalism benefits. The degree of diversity of 9Mobile news SMS contents is also poor. Nevertheless, there was significant use of prominent news stories – as derived from the hardcopies of the sourcing national newspapers. The research notes the need for news SMS copyright and plagiarism checks alongside other professional standards. Overall, it is pertinent to reiterate that irrespective of shortcomings, convergent news deliveries of 9Mobile SMS-MoreNews retain significant potentials for entrepreneurship and citizen journalism.
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Felix Odartey-Wellington, Amin Alhassan, Sarah MacRae
Following the 2017 killing of Maxwell Adam Mahama by a lynch mob in Ghana, this article engages with the subject of lynching in Ghana through a content analysis of newsmedia items relating to the practice. While reactions to Mahama’s killing invite optimism that lynching as a form of instant (in)justice is being problematized in Ghana, this study leads to a less optimistic position. State, media and public responses to Mahama’s killing were compared vis-à-vis similar killings of two police officers ‐ Jerry Wornoo and Richard Owusu-Sekyere ‐ in 1998. Drawing on the relevant literature, this study concluded that a number of factors combined to make Mahama, Wornoo and Owusu-Sekyere ‘newsworthy victims’. In contrast, victims in several lynching cases reported by Ghanaian media between 1999 and May 2017 were not deemed newsworthy, thus attracting less attention. Consequently, there have been missed opportunities following the Wornoo and Owusu-Sekyere killings to make critical systemic interventions in Ghana to prevent lynching. Hence, it is argued, the mere sensationalization of Mahama’s lynching may not trigger the requisite systemic social change. Recommendations are made to harness the momentum from Mahama’s killing to address instant (in)justice.
继2017年麦克斯韦·亚当·马哈马(Maxwell Adam Mahama)在加纳被一群私刑暴徒杀害之后，本文通过对与该做法相关的新闻媒体项目的内容分析，探讨了加纳私刑的主题。虽然对Mahama被杀的反应令人乐观地认为私刑作为一种即时司法形式在加纳正在成为问题，但这项研究导致了不那么乐观的立场。国家、媒体和公众对Mahama被杀的反应与-à-vis 1998年两名警察——Jerry Wornoo和Richard Owusu-Sekyere——类似的被杀事件进行了比较。根据相关文献，本研究得出结论，许多因素综合起来使Mahama, Wornoo和Owusu-Sekyere成为“有新闻价值的受害者”。相比之下，加纳媒体在1999年至2017年5月期间报道的几起私刑案件中的受害者被认为没有新闻价值，因此引起的关注较少。因此，在Wornoo和Owusu-Sekyere杀人事件之后，加纳错过了采取关键的系统性干预措施以防止私刑的机会。因此，有人认为，仅仅是对马哈马私刑的耸人听闻可能不会引发必要的系统性社会变革。有人建议利用马哈马被杀的势头来解决即时(不)正义问题。
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Utilizing social construction as a foundation, this study examines discourse surrounding big data. By analysing metajournalism published from 2000 to 2017 by nineteen trade presses (N=379), it attempts to ascertain how the industry defines the term, the tone surrounding it and the practices associated with it. It finds that a non-lexical definition of big data does not exist within the industry; discourse is binary and wildly optimistic or pessimistic; and big data journalism will significantly affect journalistic practices.
{"title":"What’s it all mean? Examining metajournalistic discourse concerning big data","authors":"Patrick Ferrucci","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00012_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00012_1","url":null,"abstract":"Utilizing social construction as a foundation, this study examines discourse surrounding big data. By analysing metajournalism published from 2000 to 2017 by nineteen trade presses (N=379), it attempts to ascertain how the industry defines the term, the tone surrounding it and\u0000 the practices associated with it. It finds that a non-lexical definition of big data does not exist within the industry; discourse is binary and wildly optimistic or pessimistic; and big data journalism will significantly affect journalistic practices.","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129219847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses news coverage by CNN and Democracy Now! of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Through an ethnographic content analysis (ECA) of a strongly and weakly market-oriented television news organization, we examine frames, sources used and time devoted to the story, to understand how market orientation may influence the journalistic decisions of television news outlets. We find that although both outlets framed the story primarily through the lens of protest and violence, the ways in which this was done differed significantly.
{"title":"Framing Standing Rock: Market orientation and television news","authors":"Gino Canella, Patrick Ferrucci","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00014_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00014_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses news coverage by CNN and Democracy Now! of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Through an ethnographic content analysis (ECA) of a strongly and weakly market-oriented television news organization, we examine frames,\u0000 sources used and time devoted to the story, to understand how market orientation may influence the journalistic decisions of television news outlets. We find that although both outlets framed the story primarily through the lens of protest and violence, the ways in which this was done differed\u0000 significantly.","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127941726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pakistan is currently facing severe challenges for sustainable development, including a lack of safety and governance, demographic issues, poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, gender violence and inequality, injustice, water shortage, energy crises, rapid increase in pollution and climate change. In addition, the country’s progress towards development and adaptation strategies is quite slow. This study recognizes that journalism has a very crucial role in many aspects of sustainable development in Pakistan, ranging from facilitation of good governance to social cohesion, peace, public participation, empowerment and inclusion. For this purpose, journalists need freedom of expression and require unrestrained access to information. However, Pakistani journalists often confront legal and other restrictions to practicing these two rights, resulting in a lack of their ability to report on critical issues especially relevant to sustainable development. Therefore, drawing on the development communication theory, this study identifies the areas of sustainable development that are reported most by Pakistani journalists. It strives to find out whether Pakistani journalists receive training for development journalism. It also analyses the extent and the ways journalists’ rights to freedom of expression and access to information are restrained when reporting on issues of sustainable development. The study uses thematic analysis to analyse the gathered data through a quantitative method of survey and a qualitative method of in-depth interviews.
{"title":"Journalism for sustainable development: The imperative of journalists’ rights to freedom of expression and access to information for promoting sustainable development in Pakistan","authors":"S. Jamil","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00016_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00016_1","url":null,"abstract":"Pakistan is currently facing severe challenges for sustainable development, including a lack of safety and governance, demographic issues, poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, gender violence and inequality, injustice, water shortage, energy crises, rapid increase in pollution and\u0000 climate change. In addition, the country’s progress towards development and adaptation strategies is quite slow. This study recognizes that journalism has a very crucial role in many aspects of sustainable development in Pakistan, ranging from facilitation of good governance to social\u0000 cohesion, peace, public participation, empowerment and inclusion. For this purpose, journalists need freedom of expression and require unrestrained access to information. However, Pakistani journalists often confront legal and other restrictions to practicing these two rights, resulting in\u0000 a lack of their ability to report on critical issues especially relevant to sustainable development. Therefore, drawing on the development communication theory, this study identifies the areas of sustainable development that are reported most by Pakistani journalists. It strives to find out\u0000 whether Pakistani journalists receive training for development journalism. It also analyses the extent and the ways journalists’ rights to freedom of expression and access to information are restrained when reporting on issues of sustainable development. The study uses thematic analysis\u0000 to analyse the gathered data through a quantitative method of survey and a qualitative method of in-depth interviews.","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114875404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 2016, the United States elected a populist president who had no public service, legal or military experience. Donald J. Trump was a New York real estate developer, known for his involvement in the Miss Universe Pageant, World Wide Wrestling and the reality television show, The Apprentice. Although the news media covered his unorthodox campaign extensively, after the election, the new president turned on the press, repeatedly accusing it of publishing ‘fake news’ about him and his administration and going so far as to call the press ‘the enemy of the people’. Alarmed by these accusations, journalists are discovering that without civics education in the public schools, US citizens no longer understand the role a free press plays in a democracy.
2016年，美国选出了一位没有公共服务、法律或军事经验的民粹主义总统。唐纳德·j·特朗普(Donald J. Trump)是纽约的一名房地产开发商，以参与环球小姐选美大赛(Miss Universe Pageant)、世界摔跤大赛(World Wide Wrestling)和电视真人秀节目《学徒》(the Apprentice)而闻名。尽管新闻媒体广泛报道了他的非正统竞选活动，但在选举之后，这位新总统把矛头指向了媒体，一再指责媒体发布关于他和他的政府的“假新闻”，甚至称媒体为“人民的敌人”。记者们对这些指控感到震惊，他们发现，如果没有公立学校的公民教育，美国公民就不再理解新闻自由在民主中所扮演的角色。
{"title":"Why don’t US citizens trust professional journalists?","authors":"S. Reilly","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00013_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00013_1","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, the United States elected a populist president who had no public service, legal or military experience. Donald J. Trump was a New York real estate developer, known for his involvement in the Miss Universe Pageant, World Wide Wrestling and the reality television show, The\u0000 Apprentice. Although the news media covered his unorthodox campaign extensively, after the election, the new president turned on the press, repeatedly accusing it of publishing ‘fake news’ about him and his administration and going so far as to call the press ‘the enemy\u0000 of the people’. Alarmed by these accusations, journalists are discovering that without civics education in the public schools, US citizens no longer understand the role a free press plays in a democracy.","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"42 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120817692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Twitter has already become one of the most important social media platforms for political communication. Concerning the use of Twitter in politics, two possible developments have been at the core of the theoretical discussion ‐ equalization and normalization. As normalization seems to be the case in most western countries about politicians’ Twitter use, it is yet unknown to what extent this debate can be applied to non-election times. The aim of our study is threefold. First, we address the debate of normalization on Twitter with a focus on the activity level on Twitter. Second, we classify the politicians based on their activity level in order to investigate to what extent the Twitter use still differs even if a high level of adoption has been reached. Third, we analyse the impact of the traditional media on the Twittersphere during parliamentary and non-parliamentary phases, thus focusing on non-election times. Our results show that even though media attention gives some politicians an advantage online, equalization tendencies are still possible on Twitter if politicians actively use the platform.
{"title":"Beyond normalization and equalization on Twitter: Politicians’ Twitter use during non-election times and influences of media attention","authors":"Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00021_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00021_1","url":null,"abstract":"Twitter has already become one of the most important social media platforms for political communication. Concerning the use of Twitter in politics, two possible developments have been at the core of the theoretical discussion ‐ equalization and normalization. As normalization\u0000 seems to be the case in most western countries about politicians’ Twitter use, it is yet unknown to what extent this debate can be applied to non-election times. The aim of our study is threefold. First, we address the debate of normalization on Twitter with a focus on the activity level\u0000 on Twitter. Second, we classify the politicians based on their activity level in order to investigate to what extent the Twitter use still differs even if a high level of adoption has been reached. Third, we analyse the impact of the traditional media on the Twittersphere during parliamentary\u0000 and non-parliamentary phases, thus focusing on non-election times. Our results show that even though media attention gives some politicians an advantage online, equalization tendencies are still possible on Twitter if politicians actively use the platform.","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"50 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126056428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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