Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2023.02.3488
Lena Wuergler, Annik Dubied
Faced with an increasingly challenging environment, journalists and news organizations are looking to investigative journalism as a symbolic resource to assert their professionalism. However, while the literature recognizes a strong link between authority and professionalism on the one hand, and investigative journalism and professionalism on the other, it has overlooked how investigative journalism itself can be used to establish authority. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring how investigative pieces contribute to the legitimization of journalists in French-speaking Switzerland. To answer this question, we conducted a thematic and discursive qualitative analysis of 186 investigative pieces to examine identity markers that present journalists as particularly legitimate knowledge producers. Our findings show how print journalists perform an investigative identity throughout their texts. This includes playing a watchdog role, demonstrating an “investigative mindset,” claiming specialized skills, and / or highlighting their thorough verification procedure. By employing these strategies, investigative journalists seek recognition based on their social role, their individual traits, their specialized skills, and / or their incontrovertible knowledge claims. We analyze these four identity markers as strategic devices for claiming special authority within the journalistic profession.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-08DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2023.02.2809
B. Lange, H. Jonas, F. Schwab
Die vorliegende empirische Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem Vergleich der Tagesschau mit den Kindernachrichten von logo! Es wurde vermutet, dass der Wissenserwerb durch logo! höher ausfällt und sich logo! durch ein niedrigeres Sprachniveau auszeichnet, was zu höherem Wissen beitragen könnte. Zur Überprüfung der Annahmen wurde ein Online-Experiment konzipiert, welches das durch beide Sendungen in Form konkreter Beiträge vermittelte Wissen von 260 Versuchspersonen empirisch überprüfte. Die verwendete Sprache wurde mit der Software LIWC analysiert; zudem wurde der Flesch-Index bestimmt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass logo! zu einem höheren Wissen führt, allerdings nicht für alle Beiträge gleichermassen, und teils ein niedrigeres Sprachniveau aufweist (geringere Wortkomplexität und kürzere Sätze sowie höherer Flesch-Index). Das höhere Wissen in der logo!-Bedingung könnte dabei teils durch die eingesetzte Sprache erklärbar sein, obwohl die Befunde nicht eindeutig sind. Schliesslich zeigte sich, dass der logo!-Vorteil bei Personen mit Hochschulabschluss grösser war als bei anderen Personen, was vor dem Hintergrund der Wissenskluft-Hypothese verständlich wird. Aus unseren Befunden lassen sich Praxisempfehlungen u. a. zur sprachlichen Gestaltung von TV-Nachrichten ableiten, um den Wissenserwerb zu verbessern. The present empirical study deals with the comparison of the Tagesschau with the children’s news from logo! It was assumed that the acquisition of knowledge by logo! is higher and that logo! is characterized by a lower language level, which could contribute to higher knowledge. To test the assumptions, an online experiment was designed which empirically tested the knowledge conveyed by both programs in the form of concrete contributions from 260 study participants. The language used was analyzed with the LIWC software; the Flesch-Index was also determined. The results show that logo! leads to a higher level of knowledge, although not equally for all contributions, and in some cases has a lower language level (lower word complexity and shorter sentences as well as a higher Flesch-Index). The higher knowledge in the logo! condition could thereby be partly explained by the language used, although the findings are not entirely clear. Finally, the logo! advantage was found to be greater for individuals with a university degree than for others, which becomes understandable in light of the knowledge gap hypothesis. From our findings, practical recommendations can be derived, among other things, for the linguistic design of TV news in order to improve knowledge acquisition.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2023.01.3517
Arne L. Gellrich
This article seeks to shed some light on institutional monitoring practices employed by the League of Nations during the 1930s. It explores internal reception of external communication on the organisation and its work and asks (and partially answers) what processes and practices were established by the organisation concerning media monitoring and which views and interpretations these practices (re-)produced. For that purpose, it discusses findings from four exemplary hermeneutic case studies conducted on collections of a total of 701 press clippings collected and curated by League organs. To provide a topical focus (and, simultaneously, increase the transdisciplinary value of the presented research) all four collections concern the League of Nations’ project of international control over colonial policy and are accordingly sourced from the archival section files of the organisation’s Mandates Section. The article contextualises the findings concerning the clippings with information derived from the minutes and reports of the League’s experts’ commission on Mandates, the Permanent Mandates Commission.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-16DOI: 10.24434/j.scom2023.01.3334
Otávio Daros
As a regional international organization focused on education and research, the Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina (CIESPAL) played a key role in institutionalizing the field of communication studies in the so-called “Third World” countries. Founded in 1959, in Ecuador, it is an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the objective of implementing a set of strategies to improve the training of journalists and academics in the area. Referring to the Cold War context, its development was linked to other international organizations and political-cultural entities, which ended up stimulating the formation of an environment marked by relations of cooperation and cooptation, but also by resistance. By reconstructing the 60-year trajectory of this Latin American center, the aim is to show how its role has been dynamic and is related to the political and social changes that have taken place in the region, notably the rise and fall of military dictatorships in South America.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-12DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2023.01.3431
Pelle Van Dijk
Building on the growing literature on the communication strategies of the League of Nations, this article discusses the films that a variety of actors made on the activities of the international organization. While the efforts of the League’s Secretariat in Geneva are at the center of this article, it is important to acknowledge the films made by civil society actors, gathered in national League of Nations societies. Not constrained by the ban on propaganda that applied to the League officials, these societies tried to mobilize their audience by making emotional appeals and adapting the League’s message to the national political context. After long delays and eventually with limited success, the Secretariat made its own talkie in the late 1930s, The League at Work. In all three films discussed in this article, the horrors of the First World War were portrayed to convince the audience that international cooperation was necessary to prevent a new catastrophe. With these films, the various actors promoted the League as the organization that could oversee a stable world order.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2022.03.3878
R. Arafat
By presenting five studies on connected research questions, this cumulative dissertation develops a novel understanding of the concept of Hybrid Diasporic Public Sphere by examining how three groups of diasporic exiles, including journalists, activists, and ordinary refugees settled in democratic states, use digital media to engage in transnational conflicts and advocate for political and social change in their homelands. The study demonstrates that the roles of the three diasporic political actors are highly interactive, overlapping, and complementary and their digitally-empowered collaborations blur boundaries between their normative role distinctions creating new interchanging political logics, norms, and practices. The novel contribution of this thesis lies at three levels. First, it redefines diaspora journalism in conflict contexts by examining the Syrian journalists’ media advocacy strategies and digital networks that blend activism, human rights advocacy, and social movements. Second, it further identifies five barriers to the digital diasporic political participation of ordinary refugees demonstrating new forms of democratic divides. Third, the study develops the concept of connected diaspora activist identifying the current challenges that undermine the potential of social media use for mobilizing a political change in non-revolutionary times. The dissertation employs four qualitative research methods including digital ethnography, content analysis, metajournalistic discourse analysis, and a total of 94 in-depth interviews.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2022.03.3994
H. P. Peters
Organizational science communication of higher education institutions (and research institutes outside the university sector) came into view of scholars of “science journalism” soon after the begin of systematic studies of the scientist-journalist relationship. While the pioneering French study of scientists’ relationship with the mass media by Boltanski and Maldidier (1970) focused on implications of the norms of the scientific community for public communication by scientists, early surveys of scientists in the United States (Dunwoody & Ryan, 1982, 1983) and – peripherally – also in Germany (Krüger, 1985; Peters & Krüger, 1985) considered both the scientific community and the university (or other public research organizations) as relevant contexts of the scientist-journalist relationship. The issue of organizational science public relations (PR) was also addressed by scholars and practitioners in publications and workshops in Europe (see, e.g., Peters, 1984; Ruß-Mohl, 1990; Zerges & Becker, 1992) in the 1980s and early 1990s. While researchers were not oblivious of self-interests’ influence in public communication activities of universities and other research institutions, the dominant perspective on science communication was that of the relationship of science and the media, and PR officers at science organizations were largely conceptualized as “mediators between scientists and journalists” (Dunwoody & Ryan, 1983) or as “practitioner in the middle” (Rogers, 1988).
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2022.03.3286
C. Voigt
Higher education institutions (HEIs) create a range of media products. Among them are college media produced by students. Even though this heterogeneous media form exists throughout Germany and is therefore part of HEIs’ public visibility, it remains unnoticed in the field of higher education communication. This study aims to examine the specific type of college television (CTV) in terms of organizational and editorial structures and altered workflows due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study combines a two-wave online survey among all operating German CTV stations in 2017 and 2021 with a qualitative social media analysis of twelve stations. In 2017, intra-curricular CTV operations rated a higher satisfaction level than extra-curricular cases, whereby the explicit support and cooperation with the HEI scores better. The data shows that CTV operations with an intra-curricular linkage to the respective HEI enjoyed a more stable continuity than extra-curricular operations, some of which were forced to cease production over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has limited the CTV operations’ workflows in terms of access to equipment and social exchange but has also stimulated a shift in topic selection and distribution strategy.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2022.03.3991
Roger Blum
Im Fokus von Morresis neuestem Buch stehen der Schweizer Presserat sowie der Journalismus-Kodex, auf den sich der Presserat bei seinen Erwägungen abstützt. Bisher hat sich die wissenschaftliche Literatur, in der der Schweizer Presserat eine Rolle spielt, vor allem auf die Funktionen (Blum, 1998), die Strukturen (Blum & Prinzing, 2010; Blum & Prinzing, 2020), die Arbeitsweise (Blum, 2000), die Akzeptanz (Prinzing & Blum 2015; Wyss, 2007) und den internationalen Ver-gleich (Blum, 2012; Puppis, 2009) konzentriert, nur wenig auf die Spruchpraxis. Das holt Morresi nun nach. Und während sich der praktische Ratgeber für Journalistinnen und Journalisten (Studer & Künzi, 2011) auf die grossen Linien stützt, zieht Morresi rund 300 Fälle bei. Er ordnet die Fälle entlang den elf Pflicht-Ziffern des berufs-ethischen Kodex (1: Wahrheitspflicht, 2: Informations-, Kommentar- und Kritikfreiheit, 3: Quellengerechtigkeit, 4: Verzicht auf unlautere Methoden, 5: Berichtigungspflicht, 6: Redaktionsgeheimnis, 7: Res-pektierung der Privatsphäre, 8: Diskriminierungsverbot, 9: Korrup-tionsverbot, 10: Abstand von der Werbung, 11: Journalistische Weisungen nur von Berufskolleg:innen) und fasst die wichtigsten und interessantesten aus der Gesamtmenge von gegen 1600 Stellung-nahmen zusammen.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.24434/j.scoms.2022.03.3936
Quirin Ryffel, Sarah Marschlich, Silke Fürst, Stefanie Thai
The precarious situation of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, resulting from fixed-term contracts and the demanding working conditions of young researchers at Swiss universities, has been increasingly discussed in recent years by academic organizations, political actors, and the broader public. While discussions on various levels are intensifying, concrete measures remain largely absent, and young researchers find themselves in an environment of job insecurity and a lack of prospects. Therefore, we organized a panel discussion on why and how to create permanent positions in the Swiss academic system during this year’s annual conference of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM). The panel included presentations of preliminary results from a recent study analyzing the working conditions of young and emerging communication and media scholars in Switzerland as well as discussions with researchers and actors from science organizations regarding: 1) the need for improvement of the current working conditions and the future perspectives of mid-level staff at Swiss universities, 2) the responsibilities of different actors, and 3) alternatives to the status quo that help solve the precarious situation of young and emerging scholars in Switzerland and beyond. The discussion showed several reasons for establishing more permanent positions and inducing a systemic change. While there are manifold arguments for creating more permanent positions, these arguments must appeal to those with decision-making power.
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