Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1177/10776990241240118
Itai Zviyita, Admire Mare
There is a deep-seated realization that the uptake of digitization in newsrooms has necessitated the need for an ethical reformation. This article examines ethical issues confronting operations of selected Namibian hybrid media organizations. Using the Namibia Media Holdings and The Namibian as case studies, this article argues that the platformization of news work, ever-changing technological landscape, the immediacy of internet, media sustainability concerns, and the changing nature of public interest have reconfigured ethical decision-making in hybrid media organizations in Namibia. It demonstrates that although traditional journalism ethics are still relevant, there are new ethical issues confronting hybrid media organizations.
人们深刻地认识到,新闻编辑室采用数字化后,有必要进行伦理改革。本文探讨了选定的纳米比亚混合媒体组织在运营中面临的伦理问题。本文以纳米比亚媒体控股公司(Namibia Media Holdings)和《纳米比亚人报》(The Namibian)为案例研究,认为新闻工作的平台化、不断变化的技术环境、互联网的即时性、媒体的可持续发展问题以及公共利益性质的不断变化,重新构建了纳米比亚混合媒体组织的伦理决策。文章表明,尽管传统的新闻伦理仍然适用,但混合媒体组织面临着新的伦理问题。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1177/10776990241238247
Katherine Ognyanova
The quality of information consumed by citizens remains a crucial aspect of a working democracy. In recent years, fact-checking has emerged as an important safeguard against the spread of false and misleading content. This themed article offers an overview of notable recent studies on this topic published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Included works examine the practices and effects of fact-checking across diverse national contexts.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1177/10776990241232083
Gabriel Miao Li, Fan Liang, Qinfeng Zhu
Previous studies have identified various individual factors explaining news avoidance, but the understanding of how these factors function within the broader political information environment is limited. This study, leveraging a large-scale cross-national survey, reveals that the relationships between individual news interests, news trust, and news avoidance differ across countries with varying levels of press freedom. In nations where the press is strong and free, personal preferences minimally influence individuals’ active avoidance of hard news. News avoidance is not solely a product of individual-level attributes. Rather, the impact of these individual factors is significantly shaped by the overarching political information environment.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1177/10776990241233670
Danielle Deavours, Chris Roberts
Credibility is an ancient, well-studied, complicated construct. Most credibility measurements consider messenger (ethos) and/or message (logos). Aristotle’s definition includes pathos—the speaker’s emotion, important in visual journalism but rarely applied to visual mediums. This experimental research seeks to fill that gap. It analyzed 45 variables representing ethos, logos, and pathos. High correlations among Aristotle’s three concepts suggest the need to consider each when measuring visual journalism credibility. Factor analysis yielded a three-pronged credibility measure for visual journalists, with 15 variables representing the three concepts. The scale can be used with studies of visual reporting, adding the nuance of pathos-derived credibility.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1177/10776990241238324
Joy Kibarabara
{"title":"Book Review: Constructive Journalism: Precedents, Principles and Practices, by Peter Bro","authors":"Joy Kibarabara","doi":"10.1177/10776990241238324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241238324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1177/10776990241232084
Makenzie Schroeder, Andrea Figueroa-Caballero
Given the importance of both family and partisanship in identity formation, these two may be at odds for those in cross-partisan families. Within these households, exposure to cross-partisan media is inevitable, serving to prime partisan identity and even acting as a catalyst for partisan conflict. Although much work has investigated the role of media in affective polarization, and the role of family in partisanship, little work bridges the two. Therefore, this post-test-only experiment ( N = 411) investigates the role of family in the relationship between outgroup attack-focused partisan media exposure and affective polarization.
{"title":"The (Political) Show Must Go On: The Effects of Political Media and Family Relationships on Affective Polarization","authors":"Makenzie Schroeder, Andrea Figueroa-Caballero","doi":"10.1177/10776990241232084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241232084","url":null,"abstract":"Given the importance of both family and partisanship in identity formation, these two may be at odds for those in cross-partisan families. Within these households, exposure to cross-partisan media is inevitable, serving to prime partisan identity and even acting as a catalyst for partisan conflict. Although much work has investigated the role of media in affective polarization, and the role of family in partisanship, little work bridges the two. Therefore, this post-test-only experiment ( N = 411) investigates the role of family in the relationship between outgroup attack-focused partisan media exposure and affective polarization.","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1177/10776990241236760
Hayley Booth
{"title":"Book Review: To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms, by Mora Matassi and Pablo J","authors":"Hayley Booth","doi":"10.1177/10776990241236760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241236760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140149732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1177/10776990241235943
Job Allan Wefwafwa
{"title":"Book Review: Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology, by Hopeton S. Dunn, Dumisayo Moyo, William O. Lesitaokana and Shanade Bianca Barnabas","authors":"Job Allan Wefwafwa","doi":"10.1177/10776990241235943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241235943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140057156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1177/10776990241235690
Guodong Jiang
{"title":"Book Review: Changing Models for Journalism: Reinventing the Newsroom, by Brant Houston","authors":"Guodong Jiang","doi":"10.1177/10776990241235690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241235690","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140057197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1177/10776990241234438
Daniela Dimitrova
{"title":"Evolution and Challenges for Peer Review","authors":"Daniela Dimitrova","doi":"10.1177/10776990241234438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241234438","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140057271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}