Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1177/10776990231181682
Juma Kasadha
nowhere in the section did Mathewson mention the role ethics of care in centering these issues, failing to draw on the potential to shift the discourse on journalism ethics and objectivity. The ethics of care is an important and helpful framework for promoting diversity by “teaching journalists to incorporate more sustained and focused attention to the suffering and discrimination of vulnerable groups in society” (p. 82). Care ethics is more important for journalism given the crisis in trust and democracy that requires journalists to be reflective and responsive to the needs of the community in addition to traditional ethical principles of accuracy, transparency, and fairness. Unfortunately, the book’s structure fails to do justice to some of the strong and useful contributions for both academics and media professionals. Having said that, the abundant examples sprinkled throughout the book present a useful guide for media professors to deepen the understanding of students’ care ethics. The book is bound to start conversations regarding an idea that is central to the future of journalism ethics and diversity and centers on embracing empathy and emotions in the news media.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01Epub Date: 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1177/10776990231168599
Jane B Singer
Based on a study of U.S.-tagged items in a global database of fact-checked statements about the novel coronavirus throughout the first year of the pandemic, this article explores the nature of fact-checkers' "retroactive gatekeeping." This term is introduced here to describe the process of assessing the veracity of information after it has entered the public domain rather than before. Although an overwhelming majority of statements across 16 thematic categories were deemed false and debunked, often repeatedly, misinformation continued to circulate freely and widely.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01Epub Date: 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1177/10776990231164168
Luisa Martínez-García, Iliana Ferrer
This study explores how fact-checkers understand information disorder in Ibero-America, in particular the COVID-19 disinformation. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of the LatamChequea Coronavirus alliance database and in-depth interviews with journalists from the network. Evidence found that one of the most prevalent disinformation topics was the government's restrictive measures, threatening to jeopardize the effectiveness of public health campaigns. This, added to disinformation that eroded the trust in the institutions and the press, and the opacity of governments constituted a political crisis in Ibero-America. Under this scenario, fact-checkers created relevant journalistic collaborations and strategies to fight disinformation in the region.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/10776990231178233
Henrik Örnebring
{"title":"Book Review: <i>Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet: A Short History of Disruptive Technologies, 1990–2010</i>, by Will Mari","authors":"Henrik Örnebring","doi":"10.1177/10776990231178233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231178233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135642758","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 : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/10776990231176304
Litzy Galarza
administration, they feared the invalidation and exclusion of their community by the next president (p. 60). So, Martin concludes it was only natural for them to look for a new icon to ensure their survival. Third, Martin unpacks this constituency’s passive acceptance of Trump. Martin says Christian evangelicals carried out a mantra of “give it to God but still vote as God would have you to.” Now that Trump was interwoven neatly into this constituency’s narrative, they could passively ignore his dissimilar faults and vote for him (p. 77). Particularly in Chapter 6, Martin exemplifies this passivism in how evangelicals overlooked the contradictions of faith presented by Trump’s sexual abuse allegations. From reviewing live digital video recordings, blogs, and social media posts of women pastors and evangelical leaders who were anti-Trump, Martin’s core argument emerges: that the hypocrisy of the narrative Trump has been written into is fallible and that women are the demographic to collapse this narrative. The most significant contribution of this book is that it opens the door for future studies to examine the breaks in consubstantial rhetoric of Christian groups who have written Trump out of their narratives. We have seen in the 2022 midterms evidence of Martin’s claims given that women turned the tide against the red wave by disrupting the evangelical narrative surrounding Trumpism for its ad verrecundiam hypocrisy. By integrating ourselves through digital rhetorical ethnography, rhetoricians can uncover passive hegemonic forces in a digitized, polarized political environment.
{"title":"Book Review: Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism, by Summer Harlow","authors":"Litzy Galarza","doi":"10.1177/10776990231176304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231176304","url":null,"abstract":"administration, they feared the invalidation and exclusion of their community by the next president (p. 60). So, Martin concludes it was only natural for them to look for a new icon to ensure their survival. Third, Martin unpacks this constituency’s passive acceptance of Trump. Martin says Christian evangelicals carried out a mantra of “give it to God but still vote as God would have you to.” Now that Trump was interwoven neatly into this constituency’s narrative, they could passively ignore his dissimilar faults and vote for him (p. 77). Particularly in Chapter 6, Martin exemplifies this passivism in how evangelicals overlooked the contradictions of faith presented by Trump’s sexual abuse allegations. From reviewing live digital video recordings, blogs, and social media posts of women pastors and evangelical leaders who were anti-Trump, Martin’s core argument emerges: that the hypocrisy of the narrative Trump has been written into is fallible and that women are the demographic to collapse this narrative. The most significant contribution of this book is that it opens the door for future studies to examine the breaks in consubstantial rhetoric of Christian groups who have written Trump out of their narratives. We have seen in the 2022 midterms evidence of Martin’s claims given that women turned the tide against the red wave by disrupting the evangelical narrative surrounding Trumpism for its ad verrecundiam hypocrisy. By integrating ourselves through digital rhetorical ethnography, rhetoricians can uncover passive hegemonic forces in a digitized, polarized political environment.","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46303162","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 : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/10776990231163871
Zachary Ingle, D. Sutera, Tamy Burnett, Miriam J. Johnson
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Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1177/10776990231162370
Cheng Yeung Yang
{"title":"Book Review: Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives, by Deepti Ganapathy","authors":"Cheng Yeung Yang","doi":"10.1177/10776990231162370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231162370","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49176020","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 : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1177/10776990231166941
Carolyn M. Byerly, B. Sha, Rachel L. Grant, G. Daniels, Mikayla Pevac, Carolyn E. Nielsen
The term “intersectionality” invokes a different understanding of relationality than that advanced within earlier Western scholarship and political practice. Intersectionality’s basic heuristic, the seemingly simple idea that entities that are typically treated as separate may actually be interconnected, has had a major impact on disciplinary knowledge. (p. 232)
{"title":"The Versatility of Intersectionality in Journalism and Mass Communication Research","authors":"Carolyn M. Byerly, B. Sha, Rachel L. Grant, G. Daniels, Mikayla Pevac, Carolyn E. Nielsen","doi":"10.1177/10776990231166941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231166941","url":null,"abstract":"The term “intersectionality” invokes a different understanding of relationality than that advanced within earlier Western scholarship and political practice. Intersectionality’s basic heuristic, the seemingly simple idea that entities that are typically treated as separate may actually be interconnected, has had a major impact on disciplinary knowledge. (p. 232)","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48928886","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 : 2023-03-25DOI: 10.1177/10776990231161035
B. McKeever, Robert McKeever, Minhee Choi, Shudan Huang
Although advocacy and activism have been discussed in communication literature, are important in society, and often aid in organizational success, conceptual definitions and valid measurement of the concepts are lacking. By searching the literature, seeking two rounds of expert feedback, and employing two surveys (N = 1,300) for scale development, this study advances a new measurement model of behavior that may be useful for future research and practice. The findings support six distinct factors of behavioral advocacy and activism, three representing advocacy and three representing activism. The behaviors are communicative, collective, and combative in nature. Implications are discussed, along with suggestions for future research.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1177/10776990231162371
Rebecca J. Oliver
The text attaches great importance to scrutinize the dynamic process in which different social agents (regimes) with varying socioeconomic statuses articulate and negotiate their power on the Chinese internet. Then Yuan introduces us to various forms of internet sociality which is “fluid, porous, and interstitial, embodying the multi-layered complexity of contemporary communication.” These diverse discursive practices can not only help express and build the internet identities of social actors, but can also significantly reorganize the structure underlying those symbolic exchanges and social interactions. Yuan reiterates the important role that the internet plays in changing the contemporary China culturally, economically, and politically, while recognizing both macrodiscourses of power and authority, and micro-discursive practices of individuals and groups. Yuan argues that the Web of Meaning has provided us a more “pluralistic, open, relational” perspective of the contemporary public sphere on the Chinese internet. The conclusion recommends the field framework adopted in the book over the prominent public sphere theory for understanding the Chinese internet. Relatively, the last case of Alibaba seems to be a little weak when it was used to exemplify the perfect combination of two extraordinary developments in China: market economy and network technology in past 20 years due to lack of empirical evidence. The rise of Alibaba is indeed phenomenal as the largest e-commerce company in China. We suspect that the author has elevated the symbolic power of market economy and network technologies over that of the Chinese authoritarian government. The state-sanctioned capitalism can only flourish under the hegemony of the Chinese Communist Party. The more recent crackdown of Chinese internet companies including Alibaba and Didi demonstrated to the world who is actually in charge. Overall, this book has made significant contributions to the understanding of the social, cultural, and political implications of Chinese internet. It will be of great value to students and researchers in such fields as new media and the internet studies, critical cultural studies, cultural sociology, and media economics. Because of its focus on critical discourse and the sociology of practices, the book will also be of interest to the scholars of linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and cultural sociology.
{"title":"Book Review: Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump, by Stephanie Martin","authors":"Rebecca J. Oliver","doi":"10.1177/10776990231162371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231162371","url":null,"abstract":"The text attaches great importance to scrutinize the dynamic process in which different social agents (regimes) with varying socioeconomic statuses articulate and negotiate their power on the Chinese internet. Then Yuan introduces us to various forms of internet sociality which is “fluid, porous, and interstitial, embodying the multi-layered complexity of contemporary communication.” These diverse discursive practices can not only help express and build the internet identities of social actors, but can also significantly reorganize the structure underlying those symbolic exchanges and social interactions. Yuan reiterates the important role that the internet plays in changing the contemporary China culturally, economically, and politically, while recognizing both macrodiscourses of power and authority, and micro-discursive practices of individuals and groups. Yuan argues that the Web of Meaning has provided us a more “pluralistic, open, relational” perspective of the contemporary public sphere on the Chinese internet. The conclusion recommends the field framework adopted in the book over the prominent public sphere theory for understanding the Chinese internet. Relatively, the last case of Alibaba seems to be a little weak when it was used to exemplify the perfect combination of two extraordinary developments in China: market economy and network technology in past 20 years due to lack of empirical evidence. The rise of Alibaba is indeed phenomenal as the largest e-commerce company in China. We suspect that the author has elevated the symbolic power of market economy and network technologies over that of the Chinese authoritarian government. The state-sanctioned capitalism can only flourish under the hegemony of the Chinese Communist Party. The more recent crackdown of Chinese internet companies including Alibaba and Didi demonstrated to the world who is actually in charge. Overall, this book has made significant contributions to the understanding of the social, cultural, and political implications of Chinese internet. It will be of great value to students and researchers in such fields as new media and the internet studies, critical cultural studies, cultural sociology, and media economics. Because of its focus on critical discourse and the sociology of practices, the book will also be of interest to the scholars of linguistics, semiotics, discourse analysis, and cultural sociology.","PeriodicalId":48095,"journal":{"name":"Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44792960","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}
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