Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2284810
S. Ashraf, Azmat Khan, Faizullah Jan
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2283757
Christiana Karayianni
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2280625
Ryan Broussard, Marcus Funk, Prachi Vashisht
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2280676
Reidun J. Samuelsen, Bente Kalsnes, Steen Steensen
Growing concerns about disinformation have led to the development of new digital tools and systems designed for journalists’ verification and fact-checking needs. Despite these technological developments, research has demonstrated that emerging technologies are not utilised as often and are not as highly valued as industry narratives suggest. There are indications that the typical journalist values traditional skills such as writing and interviewing higher than digital technology skills and that many journalists do not consider the new tools to be very useful in their everyday work. This article takes on a sociotechnical approach to study the interplay between journalists, technology, organisational and professional routines. Specifically, we examine journalists’ use of verification technologies to detect disinformation during an election period. Our findings show a discrepancy between the alleged potential of new technologies and the everyday practices of newswork and fact-checking – also in the digitally advanced Norwegian media industry. We found tensions between established routines and cultures in the newsroom and the push for the renewal of journalistic methods which can be sorted under two headings: strategy vs. practice and proximity vs. distance to the beat and sources.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-12DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2282082
Pablo Berdón Prieto, Virginia Martín Jiménez, Jacobo Herrero Izquierdo, Itziar Reguero Sanz
ABSTRACTThe Spanish far-right Vox party ran for the first time as a candidate for the Catalan parliamentary elections in February 2021. This paper analyses the party's political discourse on Twitter during the Catalan parliamentary election campaign in order to assess whether the degree of dialectical confrontation of their messages can exceed the limits of democratic debate. The results reveal how this far-right party's inflammatory messages, which seek to insult its political opponents, ultimately foster an undemocratic environment that turns Vox's political rivals into its enemy, driving social polarisation and a discourse of hatred towards individuals defending other ideologies or parties. Ultimately, it is intended to add that political-ideological nuance for future research that surpasses traditional hate speech —such as those based on criteria such as race or sex— and the suitability of Twitter for the proliferation of the latter.KEYWORDS: Hate speechfar-rightelectoral campaignTwitterCataloniaVox Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The follow unfollow technique is used to gain followers on social networks and consists of following a massive number of accounts so that a proportion of them follow you back. Once the follow is achieved by the other user, the follow is unfollowed.2 Vox MP for Cordoba.3 Vox MP for Badajoz.4 Vox Spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies and Deputy Foreign Affairs.5 Deputy Spokesperson and Secretary General of Vox in the Congress of Deputies.6 Vox MP for Valencia.7 See Sociological Research Centre survey at: http://datos.cis.es/pdf/3309_Estimacion.pdf (last accessed: 04/03/2021).8 This phenomenon did not occur in other regional elections (Aladro-Vico and Requeijo-Rey Citation2020, 215), so the publication of this poll was a decisive factor in their social media communication strategy.9 “Let's take back Catalonia”, or “Let's recover Catalonia”.10 “Only Vox is left”.11 “Only Vox”.12 “Vox extreme necessity”.13 “Now you have Vox”.14 “Progre”, an abbreviation of “progresista”. Vox uses this term in a pejorative sense to suggest a person who fervently engages in arguments on social justice, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, in order to raise their own personal reputation. Equivalents in English include “social justice warrior” (SJW), the “Twitter lynch mob”, among many others.15 The term “podemita” is used pejoratively by Vox to identify followers of Unidas Podemos party [the United We Can party].16 Journalism for progres.17 The term “caste”, popularised by Unidas Podemos, denotes “a closed and inbred group that has turned corruption into a system of government to further their interests” (Criado-Aguilera Citation2017, 69). Vox uses this term as a weapon, since for them it is precisely the members of that left-wing party who enjoy privileges compared to the rest of the citizens. The hashtag reads: “The caste at the cost of your dosh”.18 The hashtag read
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Pub Date : 2023-11-12DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2282081
Stan Jastrzebski, Lars Willnat
ABSTRACTThis study compares the demographics, professional values, and attitudes of public and commercial journalists in the United States. Based on survey interviews with representative samples of 394 public broadcasting journalists and 1,491 commercial journalists, the study finds significant differences in demographics, attitudes, and role perceptions between the two groups. Public media journalists, who tend to be younger, more politically left-leaning, more racially diverse, and work in more gender-balanced newsrooms than their commercial colleagues, appear more mission-driven and prefer to tell complex, interpretive stories to help the public take action. By contrast, commercial journalists prize publishing quickly to the broadest possible audience while showing less interest in influencing public affairs.KEYWORDS: Public broadcastingjournalismNPRPBScomparativesurvey Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 We define the terms “liberal” and “conservative” in relation to these two American political parties to separate our definition from broader conceptions that are often grounded in political ideologies. Feldman (Citation2013), for example, defines left-wing ideologies such as socialism to be “based on the values of equality, social justice, and widespread involvement in the political system” (p. 594) and right-wing ideologies—including nationalism and fascism—as those that “emphasize social control and unequal influence over political and economic systems” (p. 594). Since the United States is neither a socialist nor a fascist nation, we align political beliefs with the two dominant U.S. parties. In so doing, we follow a rich tradition of literature about the U.S. media, which equates “liberal” and “conservative” attitudes with being “Democratic” and “Republican,” respectively (e.g., Garrett and Bond Citation2021; Hmielowski et al. Citation2020; Lee and Hosam Citation2020). While we asked journalists to identify their preferred party affiliations, we also allowed them to place themselves on an ideological scale ranging from “very liberal” to “very conservative.” We offer these multiple opportunities at definition in part because, as Barber and Pope (Citation2019) note, researchers have consistently found that Americans identify themselves using an entanglement of both party and political affiliation.2 Because both commercial and public media journalists received the same questionnaire (except for a series of some questions on the performance of U.S. public broadcasting), this move of respondents from the main to the public sample does not affect the statistical analyses nor does it significantly impact the representativeness of each sample.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Syracuse University and the John Ben Snow Foundation.
摘要本研究比较了美国公共新闻记者和商业新闻记者的人口结构、职业价值观和态度。基于对394名公共广播记者和1491名商业记者的代表性样本的调查访谈，该研究发现，这两个群体在人口统计学、态度和角色认知方面存在显著差异。与商业记者相比，公共媒体记者往往更年轻，政治上更左倾，种族更多元化，在性别更平衡的新闻编辑室工作，他们似乎更有使命感，更喜欢讲述复杂的、解释性的故事，以帮助公众采取行动。相比之下，商业记者看重的是迅速向尽可能广泛的受众发表文章，而对影响公共事务的兴趣则较少。关键词:公共广播新闻比较调查披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1:我们将“自由主义”和“保守主义”这两个术语与这两个美国政党联系起来，以便将我们的定义与通常基于政治意识形态的更广泛的概念区分开来。例如，费尔德曼(Citation2013)将社会主义等左翼意识形态定义为“基于平等、社会正义和广泛参与政治体系的价值观”(第594页)，而右翼意识形态——包括民族主义和法西斯主义——则是“强调社会控制和对政治和经济体系的不平等影响”(第594页)。由于美国既不是社会主义国家，也不是法西斯主义国家，我们的政治信仰与美国两大主要政党保持一致。在这样做的过程中，我们遵循了关于美国媒体的丰富文学传统，将“自由”和“保守”的态度分别等同于“民主党”和“共和党”(例如，Garrett和Bond Citation2021;Hmielowski等人。Citation2020;Lee and Hosam Citation2020)。当我们要求记者确定他们喜欢的党派关系时，我们也允许他们将自己置于从“非常自由”到“非常保守”的意识形态范围内。我们在定义时提供了这些多重机会，部分原因是，正如Barber和Pope (Citation2019)所指出的那样，研究人员一直发现，美国人通过政党和政治派别的纠缠来识别自己由于商业媒体和公共媒体记者收到的问卷是相同的(除了一系列关于美国公共广播表现的问题)，因此受访者从主要样本转向公共样本并不影响统计分析，也不会显著影响每个样本的代表性。本研究得到了雪城大学和约翰·本·斯诺基金会的支持。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2279334
Lyton Ncube, Admire Mare, Itai Muzondo
ABSTRACTSocial media has opened up alternative spaces for the production, distribution, and consumption of sports news across the world. Previously, legacy media were the main spaces through which sports news and commentaries were mediated. Despite these transformations, few empirical studies have unpacked the disruptive impacts of these digital technologies in the global South. Utilising insights from Pfaffenberger’s concept of “technological dramas”, we investigate how sports journalism has been reconfigured by social media in Zimbabwe. Further, we assess ways in which sports journalists are incorporating social media into their everyday newsmaking routines. We also examine the extent to which sports journalists have the appropriate digital skills and competencies required to operate in a multimedia environment. Importantly, we highlight the ethical challenges that Zimbabwean sports journalists are navigating in the digital age. Data was collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews with 15 purposively sampled sports journalists from across Zimbabwe’s hybrid media ecosystem. Findings show that sports journalists are increasingly depending on social media for news production, distribution, and audience engagement. Notable challenges facing multimedia sports journalists include limited access to digital devices and internet connectivity.KEYWORDS: Sports journalismsocial mediamisinformationethical dilemmasmultimediatechnological dramasZimbabwe Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2280667
Nisha Sridharan
ABSTRACTWith the audience turn in journalism being actively embraced, media organizations are increasingly hiring audience-oriented experts. Drawing on interviews with 57 audience-oriented professionals working in 46 U.S. news organizations, this study situates audience-oriented roles as boundary spanning experts and aims to understand how they conceptualize engagement through job roles and routines and communicate the value of their expertise within the organization. The findings suggest that these individuals are faced with challenges of communicating their expertise to the various actors in news work, especially when faced with a paradox of adaptability to journalistic authority and institutional norms. These experts face structural challenges including continuous lack of understanding and acceptance of engagement experts within news organizations, despite the growing emphasis placed on audience engagement. Media organizations are internally resisting the expertise of these nominated boundary spanners by being bound to traditional institutional models of news production and promotion.KEYWORDS: Journalismaudience engagementboundary spanningexpertiserole conceptionrole performance Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2279339
Sean R. Sadri, Candice D. Roberts
ABSTRACTOn 6 January 2021, American citizens stormed the US Capitol in an effort to reverse the results of the presidential election. The incident and the baseless claims that ignited the insurrection highlight the shortcomings of media platforms at curbing misinformation. To better understand factors that influence media credibility, the researchers conducted a survey across a nationwide sample of US adults (N = 413). Study participants evaluated the credibility of a political news article about the congressional response to the insurrection and assessed the likelihood they would share the article on social media. Additionally, a survey of hostile media perceptions was conducted to determine potential correlations between online behaviors and offline political ideologies. Study findings offer evidence of political affiliation as a strong predictor for specific cognitive heuristic processes related to political incidents and online news. The correlations between media hostility, perceived credibility, and online share likelihood highlight differences in cognitive engagement across political lines.KEYWORDS: news credibilitysocial mediaonline share likelihoodhostile media effectmedia indignationpolitical affiliation Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2279336
Dimitris Trimithiotis, Chris Voniati
ABSTRACTThis article draws on existing research suggesting that media discourses may contribute in normalising xenophobia. Its objective is to advance these studies by investigating not only how journalists become complicit in naturalising officials’ expressed anti-immigration stance, but also the potential of journalists to counterbalance the normalisation of xenophobic discourse. In doing so, the article emphasises the role of the features of the online news production. The research draws on a multimethod research design that approaches online journalistic reporting on two separate yet interconnected levels: the media reports on migration, through discourse analysis, and the news production process, through in-depth interviews with news producers. The findings reveal that churnalism, sensationalist reporting, excessive reliance on elite sources and the discursive construction of immigrants and refugees as threat and Cyprus as victim work to reinforce the normalisation of xenophobia. Respectively, representing immigrants and refugees as rights-holders and Cyprus as duty-bearer, drawing information from diverse sources, conducting investigative journalism and (re)contextualising migration-related news in a non-negative perspective are elements that resist and challenge xenophobic discourse. However, journalists need to put in extra effort to overpass standardised online news production practices that facilitate the reproduction of xenophobic narratives.KEYWORDS: Journalism practicemedia discourseonline journalismxenophobiamedia resistanceCyprus journalismmigrationnews production AcknowledgementsThe authors are grateful to the participants who accepted to share their views and experiences in this research.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 There are no single visitors data available for Philenews and Sigmalive.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the University of Cyprus Start-Up Scheme Grant.
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