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Discussing the News : The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public / by Simon Smith

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Online-Ressource (XIII, 151 p. 16 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)

Englisch

Druckausg.: Discussing the news / Simon Smith

978-3-319-52965-3

978-3-319-52964-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 986524667 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-319-52965-3

AP 13800      Ähnliche Literatur

HM1206-1211

302.23

Basisklassifikation: 05.30 (Massenkommunikation; Massenmedien: Allgemeines) ; 05.32 (Öffentliche Meinung)

bicssc: JHB ; bisacsh: SOC052000

*Journalismus ; Massenmedien ; Soziologie      Zum Register

*Journalismus ; Massenmedien ; Soziologie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social sciences ; Communication ; Social media ; Ethnography ; Mass media ; Social sciences in mass media ; Journalism ; Sociology ; Social Sciences

Journalism / Social aspects ; Mass media

This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a participatory media environment - the administration (moderation) of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in comments below their articles. The author argues that it is precisely because both roles are treated as peripheral and undignified in newsrooms that they are so revealing, following the maxim: to make sense of what professions are and where they are heading, look at their boundaries and their dirty work. Based on a three-year ethnographic study, it offers key insights about the role of the media as democratic intermediaries in political participation, the creative possibilities for ‘amateurs’ as co-producers of digital news, the changing character of the knowledge professions and the dynamics of organisational innovation. The book argues that as media organisations face a crisis in their ability to represent the public, the challenge is to orchestrate participatory journalism as a collective accomplishment in which everyone is not a journalist but everyone can be a contributor. Bridging the divides between communication studies, linguistics, STS, organisational and occupational sociology it will interest social scientists and media studies experts

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Introduction -- Chapter 1: Participatory journalism as a way of knowing -- Chapter 2: Contextualising the research setting -- Chapter 3: Judging the quality of online discussion: the invisible work of ‘admins’ -- Chapter 4: The conversations between participatory journalists and critical publics -- Chapter 5: Defending the authenticity of online public spheres -- Conclusion