The Epistemologies of Breaking News Ekström, Mats; Ramsälv, Amanda; Westlund, Oscar
Journalism studies (London, England),
01/2021, Letnik:
22, Številka:
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The study analyses the epistemologies of online breaking news, focusing on the distinctive epistemic practices and challenges in the production of continuous news updates and online live broadcast. ...The analytical framework identifies three central aspects of news epistemology: the articulation of knowledge claims; how journalists know what they claim to know; and the justification of knowledge claims. The study draws on data from ethnographic research at a Swedish online first. Participant observations and interviews were carried out during spring and summer 2018. The study shows differences in the epistemic claims of news updates and live broadcast, how commitments to facts are carefully balanced in the enactment of discursive resources, and how justification is related to the calculation of epistemic efforts. The implications of different temporalities in news production are analyzed. The study identifies three forms of epistemic dissonance that ultimately jeopardize the authority of news media as a provider of valuable public information.
Media Life of the Young Westlund, Oscar; Bjur, Jakob
Young (Stockholm, Sweden),
02/2014, Letnik:
22, Številka:
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This is a thorough investigation into contemporary young people and their media life. The article conceptualizes a typology of media life, drawing on a theoretical body involving the sociology of ...generations, life course research, media life and individualization. This empirically derived typology makes a strong instrument for an understanding of the media life of the young, furnishing insights into how they have constructed their use of media. The investigation is based on a robust national survey with Swedes born 1994–2001, conducted in 2010 and focusing on four media: television, gaming, the Internet and mobile devices. Two of the findings are particularly surprising. Firstly, the results reveal that the young generally lead heterogeneous media lives, varying with age and sex. Secondly, although some young people literarily live their life in media, there are also de facto young who live a life without media. This is particularly pronounced for gaming and mobile use.
This article by the Digital Journalism Editorial Team surfaces with the explicit ambition to reassess the field of Digital Journalism Studies and map a future editorial agenda for Digital Journalism. ...The article dissects two important and closely interrelated questions: "What is 'digital journalism'?", and "What is 'digital journalism studies'?" Building on the commissioned conceptual articles and the review article also published in this issue, we define Digital Journalism Studies as a field which should strive to critically explore, document, and explain the interplay of digital and journalism, continuity and change, and further focus, conceptualize, and theorize tensions, configurations, power imbalances, and the debates these continue to raise for digital journalism and its futures. We also present a useful heuristic device-the Digital Journalism Studies Compass-anchored around digital and journalism, and continuity and change, as a guide for discussing the direction of the growing field and this journal.
This article focuses on journalistic practices and coordination, more specifically how journalists coordinate when producing Online Live Broadcasts (OLB). An analytical framework that lends from the ...Knowledge-Based View is developed and used to study directives for OLBs, as well as problems solved in critical moments of coordination. The researchers used mixed methods for the study of an online-first news publisher in Sweden that has won international awards for developments in OLBs. The news publisher has developed directions for how four distinct actors participate in OLBs, working from the newsroom, from the field, and from a TV-production studio. These actors have different general- and specialized expertise and are instructed to coordinate via teleconference and Slack. Our analysis identifies four key stages for an OLB: (1) Initiating and committing, (2) Knowledge coordination, (3) Performing the live moment, and (4) Boosting. These stages encompass seven critical moments of coordination, which refer to how problems requiring diverse explicit- and tacit knowledge are solved by the actors participating in the news production process. The seven critical moments of coordination are (1) Observing and initiating, (2) Initiation approved, (3) Mobilizing MoJo, (4) Knowledge-building, (5) Coordinating explicit knowledge, (6) Performing the live moment, and (7) Boosting.
This study reviews the scholarly literature on participatory journalism and mediatized audience engagement as two emergent perspectives of digital journalism studies. We discuss four propositions ...drawn from an interdisciplinary literature. We find that a review and critical discussion of the nexus of relations and impacts of these perspectives provides valuable insights to the transformation of journalism and the news media industry. Furthermore, we believe that thinking about participatory journalism and mediatized audience engagement can be fruitfully applied to various novel approaches regarding research on the fundamental transformation of journalism in the digital age.
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