Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1177/14648849231200137
Meron Wondemaghen
This article is interested in the ways in which a serious public health issue, the COVID-19 pandemic, was used to categorize and reconfigure sections of the British citizenry into conformists and deviants. In constructing these categories, the print press was utilizing specific labels to identify those who were sceptical and noncompliant of preventative health strategies. Scepticism of Covid policy was reported along political lines, distinguishing between right-leaning conspiracy theorists who pose threats to health and safety, and those sceptics who were simply without access to accurate information and guidance. In its claims-making activity, the print media was portraying some concerns as more legitimate than other equally significant social issues. The politicization of a biological vector is not without serious implications for public health communication and, ultimately, compliance with disease preventative measures.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1177/14648849231203089
Maxine De Wulf Helskens, Sarah Van Leuven, Frederik Dhaenens
This study set out to understand how student audiences make sense of fictional representations of journalism in television series. To do so, we conducted five focus groups with American students. First, participants expressed a need for more diversity in representations of journalism in terms of narratives and characters as they see fiction as a complementary source of information on the profession. They relied on non-fictional reference media, normative journalistic discourses, and if applicable, experiences with working in (school) newsrooms to make sense of these representations. Second, they discussed how public opinion on journalism is influenced by fiction and consequently fear that one-sided and stereotypical representations of journalism contribute to increasing the already low levels of mistrust in U.S. news media. This fear was also found to be gendered as the participants expressed concerns about the stereotypical representation of female and minority journalists as “bitchy” and “promiscuous.” This manuscript puts forward journalism fiction as a metajournalistic discourse in which non-fictional and fictional journalism blur in confounding ways.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-16DOI: 10.1177/14648849231192789
Thorsten Quandt
Digital journalism and its research have evolved significantly over the last twenty-five years. When the first online media were installed on an experimental basis in the mid-1990s, neither media companies nor scientific observers expected them to transform the way journalism operates. However, very soon after these humble beginnings, a seemingly infectious euphoria spread among journalism scholars who hoped to rejuvenate journalism and democracy with the help of user participation and a resulting “dialogue with the audience.” Still, many of these promises remained unfulfilled, and this led to considerable disenchantment of academics with online media and user participation during the second decade of the 2000s. Indeed, current journalism scholars exhibit a preoccupation with fears of disinformation and forms of “dark” participation. This essay analyzes the process of co-evolution in digital journalism and academia from the personal perspective of a European scholar. Four broad empirical phases are discussed: (1) niche, (2) euphoria, (3) disillusionment, and (4) doom and gloom. Using this typology, a fifth phase will be suggested to extend the current state of the field.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1177/14648849231202054
Mehdi Q. Qohroudi, Toktam N. Joorabchi, Amin F. Haghighat
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.25384/SAGE.C.4342877.V1
Erik Bleich, J. P. Callison, Georgia Grace Edwards, Mia Fichman, Erin Hoynes, Razan Jabari, A. V. Veen
We examine how the US print media portray Latinos and Hispanics, drawing on computer-assisted coding of 185,244 articles in 17 American newspapers between 1996 and 2016. We explore the prevalence o...
{"title":"The good, the bad, and the ugly: A corpus linguistics analysis of US newspaper coverage of Latinx, 1996–2016:","authors":"Erik Bleich, J. P. Callison, Georgia Grace Edwards, Mia Fichman, Erin Hoynes, Razan Jabari, A. V. Veen","doi":"10.25384/SAGE.C.4342877.V1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25384/SAGE.C.4342877.V1","url":null,"abstract":"We examine how the US print media portray Latinos and Hispanics, drawing on computer-assisted coding of 185,244 articles in 17 American newspapers between 1996 and 2016. We explore the prevalence o...","PeriodicalId":357407,"journal":{"name":"Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121919525","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}
Pub Date : 2020-08-04DOI: 10.1177/1464884920947909
J. P. L. Tuazon, J. E. Y. Arcalas, J. Soliman, Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
Creativity in journalism has always been a challenging concept. Journalism has not often been seen as creative due to its structured conventions. In response, a few journalism scholars claim there ...
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Pub Date : 2020-06-17DOI: 10.25384/SAGE.C.5027438.V1
Logan Molyneux, Rodrigo Zamith
As journalism undergoes widespread changes, it finds itself in a ‘new normal’. Research seeking to understand these changes by surveying journalists faces new methodological hurdles that span diffe...
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Pub Date : 2019-03-07DOI: 10.25384/SAGE.C.4427192.V1
Jason T. Peifer, J. Myrick
This study explores the question of how the use of satire, as embedded within the trappings of a traditional news outlet (i.e. a reputable newspaper like the Boston Globe), could influence percepti...
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Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1464884918778208
M. Walsh
Book review of new work by journalism and elections experts Stephen Cushion and Richard Thomas.
新闻和选举专家Stephen Cushion和Richard Thomas的新书书评。
{"title":"Reporting Elections: Rethinking the Logic of Campaign Coverage by Stephen Cushion and Richard Thomas","authors":"M. Walsh","doi":"10.1177/1464884918778208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884918778208","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of new work by journalism and elections experts Stephen Cushion and Richard Thomas.","PeriodicalId":357407,"journal":{"name":"Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115370513","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}
Pub Date : 2003-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1464884903004001484
H. D. Burgh
This article argues that journalism can be taught as, and should be regarded as, a serious academic discipline and not simply a vocational training. Trends in society and polity place new responsibilities on, and require a better education of journalists. They must be equipped to make essential contributions as analysts and brokers of information. Journalism education has aspects specific to it: the particular balance of academic, applied and occupational learning; simulations of real working experience and engagement with the world; the conformity to professional standards of behaviour; the involvement with local communities; the application of the competency concept in assessment criteria; the high degree of transferability of skills, particularly research and composition skills. This combination can make for stimulating courses which provide a useful base for many types of work in later life and which compare favourably with other social science and humanities disciplines.
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