This article assesses the dominant debates about the agency in media narratives for community-based peacebuilding. By locating the common challenges facing the agency in media narratives for the purposes of community-based peacebuilding, the article contributes to the ongoing debates on ways in which media discourses can be tailored toward the prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts between, within and among communities. This is predicated on the assumption that conflict is a function of discourse, and that media narratives take active part in the construction, negotiation, and circulation of discourse, all of which inform the degree of congruity between news content and expected outcomes. The primary objective of this article is therefore to generate conceptual and theoretical debates on the agentic and formative roles media narratives play in community-based peacebuilding.
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The article examines how nuclear risk was perceived by German and Japanese journalists covering the Fukushima Disaster. Drawing from the theoretical framework of Beck’s World Risk Society, the journalists’ personal risk perceptions are reconstructed from narrative interviews, adding an important variable to the understanding of journalistic communication on risk and disaster. The results indicate that German correspondents in Japan were highly concerned about their personal safety while Japanese journalists hardly showed any anxiety with regard to the nuclear disaster. The varying perceptions also widely applied to the journalists’ professional experience of the disaster, although further influences like organizational culture came into play as well. The article concludes that historically shaped discourses are an important macro factor for media reporting on risk and disaster.
{"title":"The Fukushima Disaster and the “Clash of Risk Cultures” : Japanese and German Journalists’ Perceptions of a Nuclear Crisis","authors":"F. Meissner","doi":"10.22032/DBT.40623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.40623","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines how nuclear risk was perceived by German and Japanese journalists covering the Fukushima Disaster. Drawing from the theoretical framework of Beck’s World Risk Society, the journalists’ personal risk perceptions are reconstructed from narrative interviews, adding an important variable to the understanding of journalistic communication on risk and disaster. The results indicate that German correspondents in Japan were highly concerned about their personal safety while Japanese journalists hardly showed any anxiety with regard to the nuclear disaster. The varying perceptions also widely applied to the journalists’ professional experience of the disaster, although further influences like organizational culture came into play as well. The article concludes that historically shaped discourses are an important macro factor for media reporting on risk and disaster.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82635197","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}
Die lateinamerikanische Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (LMKW) erlebt seit etwa drei Jahrzehnten eine Stagnation im empirischen und theoretischen Bereich. Deshalb ist es an der Zeit fur eine Selbstkritik seitens der lateinamerikanischen Scientific Community. Begrunden lasst sich dieser Stillstand mit 1) der historischen ideologischen Pragung der Disziplin in der Region, die zu einer Ablehnung nordamerikanischer Theorien und Autor*innen fuhrt und 2) mit der eingeschrankten Internationalisierung der Disziplin in Lateinamerika, die im Zusammenhang mit einer begrenzten De-Westernization und den lokalen Produktionsbedingungen wie Unterfinanzierung steht. Trotz dieser Probleme kann die LMKW auf globaler Ebene bereichern, indem viele der Akademiker*innen aus der Region ihren westlichen Kolleg*innen die Bedeutung politischen Engagements zeigen konnen. Denn die kritische Tradition, auf die die lateinamerikanischen Wissenschaftler*innen so stolz sind, ist nach wie vor notwendig, um die heutigen gesellschaftliche /medialen Phanomene zu analysieren.
{"title":"Die lateinamerikanische Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft zwischen ideologischer Prägung und begrenzter Internationalisierung: Zeit für Selbstkritik","authors":"Saucedo Añez, Patricia","doi":"10.22032/DBT.40625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.40625","url":null,"abstract":"Die lateinamerikanische Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (LMKW) erlebt seit etwa drei Jahrzehnten eine Stagnation im empirischen und theoretischen Bereich. Deshalb ist es an der Zeit fur eine Selbstkritik seitens der lateinamerikanischen Scientific Community. Begrunden lasst sich dieser Stillstand mit 1) der historischen ideologischen Pragung der Disziplin in der Region, die zu einer Ablehnung nordamerikanischer Theorien und Autor*innen fuhrt und 2) mit der eingeschrankten Internationalisierung der Disziplin in Lateinamerika, die im Zusammenhang mit einer begrenzten De-Westernization und den lokalen Produktionsbedingungen wie Unterfinanzierung steht. Trotz dieser Probleme kann die LMKW auf globaler Ebene bereichern, indem viele der Akademiker*innen aus der Region ihren westlichen Kolleg*innen die Bedeutung politischen Engagements zeigen konnen. Denn die kritische Tradition, auf die die lateinamerikanischen Wissenschaftler*innen so stolz sind, ist nach wie vor notwendig, um die heutigen gesellschaftliche /medialen Phanomene zu analysieren.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83857904","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 research focuses on a Twitter protest about the Ayotzinapa case (the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014) that for years has existed under the hashtag #PaseDeLista1al43. The main purpose is to assess if this protest can be understood as a counterpublic. Through thematic analyses of tweets and 15 semi-structured interviews, the study found the following: Protesters deconstruct power relations within the case and challenge the government’s version about the students; seek to disrupt mainstream narratives with their messages; and developed a collective identity that helped maintain the protest alive for years. These findings point to the possibility of Twitter to house a long-lasting public that challenges dominant political narratives. A public that came together with a hashtag can go beyond short connective actions on Twitter and develop a community to discuss and solidify opinions, and then get attention from other publics.
{"title":"Counterpublics on Twitter: Analysis of the #PaseDeLista1al43 Protest about the Ayotzinapa Case","authors":"Rocío Araceli Galarza Molina","doi":"10.29105/GMJMX16.31-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/GMJMX16.31-2","url":null,"abstract":"This research focuses on a Twitter protest about the Ayotzinapa case (the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014) that for years has existed under the hashtag #PaseDeLista1al43. The main purpose is to assess if this protest can be understood as a counterpublic. Through thematic analyses of tweets and 15 semi-structured interviews, the study found the following: Protesters deconstruct power relations within the case and challenge the government’s version about the students; seek to disrupt mainstream narratives with their messages; and developed a collective identity that helped maintain the protest alive for years. These findings point to the possibility of Twitter to house a long-lasting public that challenges dominant political narratives. A public that came together with a hashtag can go beyond short connective actions on Twitter and develop a community to discuss and solidify opinions, and then get attention from other publics.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"122 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76307468","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}
Dorismilda Flores-Márquez, Luis Ángel Galindo Román, Frida Estefanía Gattás Ollervides
Este trabajo explora el vinculo entre publicidad y activismo, mediante el analisis de una seleccion de spots comerciales sobre problemas publicos, presentados por marcas mexicanas en el periodo 2009-2019. La primera fase consistio en buscar y contextualizar los spots, para identificar las marcas y los problemas publicos abordados en la publicidad, tales como la xenofobia y la discriminacion, la violencia de genero, la contaminacion ambiental, entre otros. En la segunda fase se realizo un analisis de contenido cualitativo de tres spots —“Borders” de Aeromexico, “Make great again?” de Corona y “Palabras a prueba de balas” de Article 19—, mientras que en la tercera se esbozo una exploracion del impacto que los spots tuvieron en medios digitales. Los hallazgos permiten ver que las marcas se posicionan como actores relevantes en torno a los problemas publicos, al presentar perspectivas orientadas al cambio social.
{"title":"Problemas públicos, activismo y publicidad: una exploración de tres spots comerciales","authors":"Dorismilda Flores-Márquez, Luis Ángel Galindo Román, Frida Estefanía Gattás Ollervides","doi":"10.29105/GMJMX16.31-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/GMJMX16.31-5","url":null,"abstract":"Este trabajo explora el vinculo entre publicidad y activismo, mediante el analisis de una seleccion de spots comerciales sobre problemas publicos, presentados por marcas mexicanas en el periodo 2009-2019. La primera fase consistio en buscar y contextualizar los spots, para identificar las marcas y los problemas publicos abordados en la publicidad, tales como la xenofobia y la discriminacion, la violencia de genero, la contaminacion ambiental, entre otros. En la segunda fase se realizo un analisis de contenido cualitativo de tres spots —“Borders” de Aeromexico, “Make great again?” de Corona y “Palabras a prueba de balas” de Article 19—, mientras que en la tercera se esbozo una exploracion del impacto que los spots tuvieron en medios digitales. Los hallazgos permiten ver que las marcas se posicionan como actores relevantes en torno a los problemas publicos, al presentar perspectivas orientadas al cambio social.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82001329","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}
Lidia Pamela Cortés Morales, Sandra Luz Guerrero Ramírez, Vanesa del Carmen Muriel Amezcua
El presente trabajo de investigacion tiene como objetivo plantear la importancia de la gestion de conocimiento para el area de produccion de un medio de comunicacion multiplataforma de una institucion educativa. Es una investigacion del tipo cuantitativa con alcances exploratorios-descriptivos, mediante un estudio de caso en la televisora de la Universidad de Queretaro, TvUAQ, en la ciudad de Queretaro. Se realiza la revision teorica sobre la gestion del conocimiento y modelos del conocimiento, con la finalidad de disenar un instrumento que nos permitiera conocer los aspectos y las condiciones para disenar la metodologia basada en gestion de conocimiento. Finalmente, se analiza la gestion del conocimiento y su aplicabilidad en un medio de comunicacion multiplataforma. Se confirmo que la productividad tiene una relacion directa con la gestion del conocimiento en un medio de comunicacion, asi mismo la existencia de condiciones para el diseno de la propuesta metodologica. La aplicacion de estrategias o metodologias basadas en gestion del conocimiento mejorarian la productividad de un medio de comunicacion, en una institucion educativa en Mexico.
{"title":"La importancia de la gestión del conocimiento en los medios de comunicación en una institución educativa en México","authors":"Lidia Pamela Cortés Morales, Sandra Luz Guerrero Ramírez, Vanesa del Carmen Muriel Amezcua","doi":"10.29105/GMJMX16.31-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/GMJMX16.31-3","url":null,"abstract":"El presente trabajo de investigacion tiene como objetivo plantear la importancia de la gestion de conocimiento para el area de produccion de un medio de comunicacion multiplataforma de una institucion educativa. Es una investigacion del tipo cuantitativa con alcances exploratorios-descriptivos, mediante un estudio de caso en la televisora de la Universidad de Queretaro, TvUAQ, en la ciudad de Queretaro. Se realiza la revision teorica sobre la gestion del conocimiento y modelos del conocimiento, con la finalidad de disenar un instrumento que nos permitiera conocer los aspectos y las condiciones para disenar la metodologia basada en gestion de conocimiento. Finalmente, se analiza la gestion del conocimiento y su aplicabilidad en un medio de comunicacion multiplataforma. Se confirmo que la productividad tiene una relacion directa con la gestion del conocimiento en un medio de comunicacion, asi mismo la existencia de condiciones para el diseno de la propuesta metodologica. La aplicacion de estrategias o metodologias basadas en gestion del conocimiento mejorarian la productividad de un medio de comunicacion, en una institucion educativa en Mexico.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80232061","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}
El presente articulo busca dar a conocer la metodologia utilizada para analizar un juego de rol como lo es Calabozos y Dragones , el desarrollo de la investigacion, su aparato teorico metodologico, asi como sus respectivos resultados y conclusiones para encontrar los elementos de conformacion de la narrativa experiencial en un medio de comunicacion particular como lo es Calabozos y Dragones . La denominada narrativa experiencial, en este caso en especifico, opero como metodologia de analisis que arrojo como resultado la identificacion de los elementos fundamentales para la generacion de momentos significativos en la mente de los jugadores de Calabozos y Dragones. Como parte de los resultados, se encontro que las interacciones de los jugadores y de los personajes con sus entornos son los que predominantemente generan la experiencia, es decir, por el lado de los jugadores es la interaccion entre ellos, con los dados, hojas de personaje, reglas y musica ambiental lo que determina la experiencia en su linea de tiempo; mientras que por el lado de los personajes, es el conjunto de interacciones en el ambiente virtual lo que determina sus momentos significativos que generan la narrativa experiencial en conjunto.
{"title":"La narrativa experiencial como propuesta teórico-metodológica al campo de la comunicación y su aplicación en dos grupos de juego de Calabozos y Dragones","authors":"Mauricio Rangel Jiménez","doi":"10.29105/GMJMX16.31-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/GMJMX16.31-6","url":null,"abstract":"El presente articulo busca dar a conocer la metodologia utilizada para analizar un juego de rol como lo es Calabozos y Dragones , el desarrollo de la investigacion, su aparato teorico metodologico, asi como sus respectivos resultados y conclusiones para encontrar los elementos de conformacion de la narrativa experiencial en un medio de comunicacion particular como lo es Calabozos y Dragones . La denominada narrativa experiencial, en este caso en especifico, opero como metodologia de analisis que arrojo como resultado la identificacion de los elementos fundamentales para la generacion de momentos significativos en la mente de los jugadores de Calabozos y Dragones. Como parte de los resultados, se encontro que las interacciones de los jugadores y de los personajes con sus entornos son los que predominantemente generan la experiencia, es decir, por el lado de los jugadores es la interaccion entre ellos, con los dados, hojas de personaje, reglas y musica ambiental lo que determina la experiencia en su linea de tiempo; mientras que por el lado de los personajes, es el conjunto de interacciones en el ambiente virtual lo que determina sus momentos significativos que generan la narrativa experiencial en conjunto.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83226353","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}
Uno de los problemas en el estudio sobre el servicio publico de radiodifusion es que se ha estudiado, sobre todo, desde un punto de vista historico (p. ej. Lewis, 1993; Thompson, 1998), a partir del analisis de una perspectiva europeo-occidental o norteamericana (p. ej. Bustamante, 2000, 2001, 2008; Hallin y Mancini, 2004; Tremblay, G. 1988). Pero pocos autores han intentado formular un concepto del servicio publico de radiodifusion desde la realidad sociopolitica en America Latina (p. ej. Fuenzalida, V. 2000, 2002; Ortega, P. 2007). Particularmente, en todos estos ejemplos se ha dejado de lado un analisis sistematizado acerca de la programacion y una explicacion de como las emisoras se han instituido desde las practicas cotidianas de los realizadores (p. ej. guionistas; investigadores; productores; etc). El texto pretende contribuir a explicar como se formulo la estrategia metodologica (basada, en parte, desde la hermeneutica profunda de Thompson, 1998), para poder conceptualizar una nocion de servicio publico de radio en contextos sociopoliticos distintos. El presente trabajo es parte de un estudio mas amplio sobre la construccion del servicio publico en Mexico, el cual intenta abonar a la reflexion teorico-metodologica sobre la transformacion del servicio publico de radio en Mexico. Abstract The Public Media Service has been studied mainly from a historical perspective (e.g Lewis, 1993; Thompson, 1998) or from a Western-European point of view (e.g Bustamante, 2000, 2001, 2008; Hallin and Mancini, 2004; Tremblay, G. 1988). But few authors have intended to elaborate a Public Media Service concept based on the sociopolitical reality of Latin America (p. e.g Fuenzalida, V. 2000, 2002; Ortega, P. 2007). These examples have stepped away from systematically analyzing programming, to focus on how radio professionals (writers, reporters, researchers, editors, presenters, etc.) have shaped radio stations out of their ordinary work. Therefore, this paper proposes an explanation of a methodological strategy developed to formulate a concept of Public Radio Service in diverse sociopolitical contexts. This work is part of a broader study on the construction of a public broadcasting system in Mexico; it seeks to add to the theoretical and methodological reflection on the transformation of Public Radio Service in Mexico.
{"title":"Nuevos trazos metodológicos para comprender la noción del servicio público de radio","authors":"L. Martell","doi":"10.29105/GMJMX16.31-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/GMJMX16.31-7","url":null,"abstract":"Uno de los problemas en el estudio sobre el servicio publico de radiodifusion es que se ha estudiado, sobre todo, desde un punto de vista historico (p. ej. Lewis, 1993; Thompson, 1998), a partir del analisis de una perspectiva europeo-occidental o norteamericana (p. ej. Bustamante, 2000, 2001, 2008; Hallin y Mancini, 2004; Tremblay, G. 1988). Pero pocos autores han intentado formular un concepto del servicio publico de radiodifusion desde la realidad sociopolitica en America Latina (p. ej. Fuenzalida, V. 2000, 2002; Ortega, P. 2007). Particularmente, en todos estos ejemplos se ha dejado de lado un analisis sistematizado acerca de la programacion y una explicacion de como las emisoras se han instituido desde las practicas cotidianas de los realizadores (p. ej. guionistas; investigadores; productores; etc). El texto pretende contribuir a explicar como se formulo la estrategia metodologica (basada, en parte, desde la hermeneutica profunda de Thompson, 1998), para poder conceptualizar una nocion de servicio publico de radio en contextos sociopoliticos distintos. El presente trabajo es parte de un estudio mas amplio sobre la construccion del servicio publico en Mexico, el cual intenta abonar a la reflexion teorico-metodologica sobre la transformacion del servicio publico de radio en Mexico. Abstract The Public Media Service has been studied mainly from a historical perspective (e.g Lewis, 1993; Thompson, 1998) or from a Western-European point of view (e.g Bustamante, 2000, 2001, 2008; Hallin and Mancini, 2004; Tremblay, G. 1988). But few authors have intended to elaborate a Public Media Service concept based on the sociopolitical reality of Latin America (p. e.g Fuenzalida, V. 2000, 2002; Ortega, P. 2007). These examples have stepped away from systematically analyzing programming, to focus on how radio professionals (writers, reporters, researchers, editors, presenters, etc.) have shaped radio stations out of their ordinary work. Therefore, this paper proposes an explanation of a methodological strategy developed to formulate a concept of Public Radio Service in diverse sociopolitical contexts. This work is part of a broader study on the construction of a public broadcasting system in Mexico; it seeks to add to the theoretical and methodological reflection on the transformation of Public Radio Service in Mexico.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79875489","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}
Stamatis Poulakidakos, Christos A. Frangonikolopoulos
Having as theoretical basis the notion of the public sphere and its manifestations within the EU, the current paper seeks to trace similarities and differences in the public discourse developed in German and Greek news sites, regarding the financial and refugee crises. Our quantitative content analysis shows that there are both similarities and differences in the two distinct public spheres, regarding the evaluation of the EU, its policies on the aforementioned issues and the ways in which the public discourse is being articulated mainly on behalf of politicians and journalists, who appear to be the main carriers of the public discourse in the media under scrutiny.
{"title":"The European financial and refugee/immigrant crises in the press: similarities and differences of the Greek and German public spheres","authors":"Stamatis Poulakidakos, Christos A. Frangonikolopoulos","doi":"10.22032/DBT.38716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.38716","url":null,"abstract":"Having as theoretical basis the notion of the public sphere and its manifestations within the EU, the current paper seeks to trace similarities and differences in the public discourse developed in German and Greek news sites, regarding the financial and refugee crises. Our quantitative content analysis shows that there are both similarities and differences in the two distinct public spheres, regarding the evaluation of the EU, its policies on the aforementioned issues and the ways in which the public discourse is being articulated mainly on behalf of politicians and journalists, who appear to be the main carriers of the public discourse in the media under scrutiny.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86385231","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}
Media Monitoring Africa (hereafter MMA), is a Johannesburg-based non-governmental organization (NGO) with the goals to increase media quality, refocus media ethics, foster media diversity, and advance media democracy. Via an institutional ethnography, conducted during six weeks of fieldwork, I take up MMA’s particular case to investigate how the NGO has become understood as “part” of the South African mediascape, rather than an auxiliary agent. Through participant observation of the NGO’s daily routines, in-depth interviews with MMA members and local media professionals, as well as textual analysis of organizational documents, I found that MMA has managed to weave into the organizational fabric of the South African mediascape. The ethnographic data reveals that MMA is commonly perceived as a necessary element of the South African mediascape—a status that moves beyond the often strictly interventionist role of activist NGOs. I argue that MMA has achieved this unique social position in the mediascape through four central organizational-activist practices: 1. consistent intervention on the same sets of issues; 2. activist innovation around the mode of their intervention(s); 3. multilateral activism (political economy, media policy, media content); and 4. successful curation of relationships with media stakeholders.
{"title":"Weaving into the mediascape: an institutional ethnography of NGO Media Activism in South Africa","authors":"G. Sorce","doi":"10.22032/DBT.38715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.38715","url":null,"abstract":"Media Monitoring Africa (hereafter MMA), is a Johannesburg-based non-governmental organization (NGO) with the goals to increase media quality, refocus media ethics, foster media diversity, and advance media democracy. Via an institutional ethnography, conducted during six weeks of fieldwork, I take up MMA’s particular case to investigate how the NGO has become understood as “part” of the South African mediascape, rather than an auxiliary agent. Through participant observation of the NGO’s daily routines, in-depth interviews with MMA members and local media professionals, as well as textual analysis of organizational documents, I found that MMA has managed to weave into the organizational fabric of the South African mediascape. The ethnographic data reveals that MMA is commonly perceived as a necessary element of the South African mediascape—a status that moves beyond the often strictly interventionist role of activist NGOs. I argue that MMA has achieved this unique social position in the mediascape through four central organizational-activist practices: 1. consistent intervention on the same sets of issues; 2. activist innovation around the mode of their intervention(s); 3. multilateral activism (political economy, media policy, media content); and 4. successful curation of relationships with media stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"81 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77377997","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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