Newswork and Precarity Chadha, Kalyani; Steiner, Linda
2022, 20211230, 2021, 2021-12-30
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This edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry.
In 14 ...original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work harder for less money, and few countries are proactive in alleviating the precarity of journalists.
Newswork and Precarity is a valuable addition to an important still-emerging area in journalism studies that will be of interest to both professionals and scholars of journalism, media studies, sociology, and labor history.
Americans pay famously close attention to "the market," obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the ...Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a wide audience, Knight shows how ordinary Americans became both emotionally and financially invested in the market. He analyzes popular investment manuals, brokers’ newsletters, newspaper columns, magazine articles, illustrations, and cartoons. He also introduces readers to fiction featuring financial tricksters, which was characterized by themes of personal trust and insider information. The book reveals how the popular culture of the period shaped the very idea of the market as a self-regulating mechanism by making the impersonal abstractions of high finance personal and concrete.From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance—and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.
The decision by Popsci.com editors to shut off public comments in 2013 surprised many scholars of science journalism--particularly since the decision was justified in large part by reference to ...science communication scholarship. This commentary engages in a rhetorical analysis of the events surrounding the decision--in particular, the popularization of Anderson et al. (2014), the editorial stance at Popsci.com, and the content of blog comments leading up to the shutoff--to better appreciate what led to the foreclosure of a significant forum for protodeliberation on science research and policy.
Gökyüzünden çekilen görüntülerin haber odalarında işlenmesiyle habercilik alanına yeni bir soluk getiren drone’lar, gazetecilik pratiğinde yaygın bir hale gelmektedir. Drone’lar bulunduğu konum ...nedeniyle geleneksel kameraların yakalayamayacağı birçok görüntüyü kaydedebilme olanağına sahiptir. Dünyada habercilik alanında kendisini kabul ettiren drone’lar Türkiye’de de bir gazetecilik uygulaması olarak yaygınlık kazanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, drone haberciliğinin Türkiye’deki gelişim süreci incelenerek haber kuruluşlarındaki muhabirler için ifade ettiği anlam ve haber toplamadaki kullanımı araştırılmıştır. Çalışmada ulusal anlamdaki haber ajansları olan Anadolu Ajansı, Demirören Haber Ajansı, İhlas Haber Ajansı’nın habercilikte drone kullanım pratikleri incelenmiştir. Haber kuruluşlarında drone kullanan muhabirlerle yapılandırılmış görüşmeler yapılarak, betimsel analiz yöntemi neticesinde drone haberciliğinin günümüzdeki mevcut durumu ve gelecekte gazetecilikle ilişkisinin ne yönde olacağı ortaya konulmaya çalışılmıştır. Bu bağlamda elde edilen bulgularda drone’un Türkiye’de habercilik alanında günden güne ağırlığını artırdığı, habercilik alanında oldukça olumlu katkılar sağladığı görülmüştür. Olumlu katkılarının yanı sıra drone’un güvenlik ve etik gibi konularda problemler çıkarabileceği ihtimali üzerinde de durulmuştur.
The drones that breathe new life into the field of journalism by processing the images taken from the sky in the news rooms have become more common in journalism practice. Drones have the ability to record many images due to their location that conventional cameras can not capture.The drones which has established itself in the field of journalism worldwide, has also become gained prevalence in Turkey as a journalism practice. This study examined the development process of drone journalism in Turkey; what means the drone journalism for the news reporters and the use of drone journalism in news gathering. In this context the usage practice of drone journalism of national news agencies Anadolu Agency, Demirören News Agency and İhlas News Agency has been investigated. A structured interview has been conducted with the reporters using the drone in the news organizations and the relationship between the current situation of drone journalism and the future of journalism has been tried to be explained by the descriptive analysis method. According to the findings obtained from the study, the drone become more effective in Turkey’s news institutions and has been shown to provide a very positive contribution to the field of journalism. In addition to the positive contributions, the possibility of drone being able to raise problems in security and ethics is also emphasized.
The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know ...about journalism; and how ‘truthiness’ tweaks our understanding of the journalistic tradition. Short section introductions contextualise the essays and highlight the issues that they raise, creating a coherent study of journalism today.
Introduction: Why Journalism’s Changing Faces Matter. Barbie Zelizer Part 1: On Tabloidization 1. Rethinking a Villain, Redeeming a Format: The Crisis and Cure in Tabloidization. Michael Serazio 2. Can Popularization Help the News Media? Herbert J. Gans 3. Tears and Trauma in the News. Carolyn Kitch 4. Tabloidization: What Is It and Does It Really Matter? S. Elizabeth Bird Part 2: On Technology 5. The Impact of Technology on Journalism. Lokman Tsui 6. Materiality and Mimicry in Contemporary Journalistic Practice. Pablo Boczkowski 7. The Guardian of the Real: Journalism in the Time of the New Mind. Julianne H. Newton 8. Technology and the Individual Journalist: Agency Beyond Imitation and Change. Mark Deuze Part 3: On Truthiness 9. Rethinking Truth through Truthiness. Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt 10. Two Cheers for Positivism: Factual Knowledge in the Age of Truthiness. Michael Schudson 11. The Moment of Truthiness. James Ettema 12. Believable Fictions: Redactional Culture and the Will to Truthiness. Jeffrey Jones Afterword: The Troubling Evolution of Journalism. Peter Dahlgren.
Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work in the area of journalism, culture, memory and images, particularly in times of crisis. Previous publications for Routledge include Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (2004) and Journalism After September 11 (2002) (both co-edited with Stuart Allan) and Explorations in Communication and History (2008).
"These essays invite the reader to see the opportunities for the renewal of journalism and contribute significant discussion to the debate over journalism's future...Highly recommended." - CHOICE
The biographical genre has achieved great success lately. Within the academic public as well as the general public, such worldwide phenomenon has been recorded in several areas of knowledge, among ...which we can highlight journalism and literature. The sodal sdences, espedally anthropology, albeit timidly, seek to contribute epistemologically to this field. In this article we aim to present theoretical-methodological notes on biographical writing, notably the dissension between Bourdieu and Sartre. And, as a methodological alternative, we present Roland Barthes' discussions regarding the notion of polyphonic romance. Our goal is to build a privileged debate space in the interlocution among theories, sources, methods and approaches. And, after the construction of this communication space, we will discuss the ways of apprehending a personal experience and the forms of reassessment and reconstruction of the past from the relations among individuals, groups and society, so that the cultural and political mechanisms of their production can be explained, starting with the collective and institutional dimensions that act on narratives of affirmation / construction of history.
The biographical genre has achieved great success lately. Within the academic public as well as the general public, such worldwide phenomenon has been recorded in several areas of knowledge, among ...which we can highlight journalism and literature. The sodal sdences, espedally anthropology, albeit timidly, seek to contribute epistemologically to this field. In this article we aim to present theoretical-methodological notes on biographical writing, notably the dissension between Bourdieu and Sartre. And, as a methodological alternative, we present Roland Barthes' discussions regarding the notion of polyphonic romance. Our goal is to build a privileged debate space in the interlocution among theories, sources, methods and approaches. And, after the construction of this communication space, we will discuss the ways of apprehending a personal experience and the forms of reassessment and reconstruction of the past from the relations among individuals, groups and society, so that the cultural and political mechanisms of their production can be explained, starting with the collective and institutional dimensions that act on narratives of affirmation / construction of history. Keywords Biography. Biographe. Trajectory. O genero biografico tem alcancado ultimamente grande sucesso. Tanto entre o publico academico quanto entre o publico em geral, tal fenomeno mundial registra ocorrencia em diversas areas do conhedmento, dentre as quais podem-se destacar o jornalismo e a literatura. As rienrias sodais, espedalmente a antropologia, ainda de maneira timida, buscam contribuir epistemologicamente com esse campo. Neste artigo, objetivamos apresentar alguns apontamentos teorico-metodologicos a respeito da pesquisa e escrita biografica, notadamente o dissenso entre Bourdieu e Sartre. E, como alternativa metodologica, apresentamos as discussoes de Roland Barthes a respeito da nocao de romance polifonico. Nosso objetivo e construir um espaco de debate privilegiado na interlocucao entre teorias, fontes, metodos e abordagens. E, a partir da construcao desse espaco comunicadonal, discutiremos os modos de apreensao de uma experienda pessoal e as formas de reavaliacao e reconstrucao do passado a partir das relacoes entre individuos, grupos e sodedade, para que se possa explidtar os mecanismos culturais e politicos de sua producao, a partir de dimensoes coletivas e institudonais que atuam em narrativas de afirmacao/construcao da historia. Palavras-chave Biografia. Biografema. Trajetoria.
Povodom pedeset godina izlazenja od (1966. do 2016.) napravljena je citatna analiza casopisa Acta stomatologica Croatica (ASCRO). Svrha: Namjera je bila utvrditi utjecaj promjena nastalih u ...posljednjih deset godina na vidljivost i citiranost ASCRO-a usporedbom dobivenih rezultata s rezultatima citatne analize ASCRO-a iz 2008. Materijali i metode: Uzorak je pribavljen pretrazivanjem baze podataka Web of Science Core Collection, a podatci su obradeni deskriptivnom statistikom. Rezultati: U ASCRO-u je objavljeno ukupno 1618 radova, a citirano je 477 za koje je zabiljezeno 903 citata. Svaki objavljeni rad citiran je prosjecno 0,6 puta, a svaki od citiranih radova dobio je prosjecno 1,9 citata. Najveci broj citata po radu je 20, a najvise citata po godini je 63 u 1991. Prema starosti rada najvise citata dobilo je 96 radova u trecoj godini poslije objavljivanja, a najstariji citirani radovi napisani su prije 45 godina. ASCRO je citiran u 302 casopisa, a najvise citata (19%) zabiljezeno je u Coll. Antropolu. Od ukupno 903 citata 41% citirali su samo hrvatski autori, 3,7% radova citirali su hrvatski i strani autori, a 55,3% radova citirali su samo strani autori. ASCRO su citirali autori iz 73 drzave--33 su europske, 19 je azijskih, 10 americkih, 9 africkih i 2 drzave Australije i Oceanije. Zakljucak: U svim analiziranim parametrima zabiljezen je rast kvalitete ASCRO-a u posljednjih deset godina u odnosu prema rezultatima dobivenima citatnom analizom 2008. Kljucne rijeci bibliometrija; stomatoloski casopisi; znanstveni casopisi; otvoreno dostupno izdavastvo Acta Stomatologica Croatica (ASCRO) citation analysis was made on the occasion of fifty years of publishing the journal (1966 to 2016). The aim of the study was to determine the impact of the changes that have been occurring over the last ten years on the visibility and citation of ASCRO by comparing the obtained results with the 2008 ASCRO citation analysis. Materials and Methods: The sample was obtained by searching the Web of Science Core Collection database, and the data were processed by descriptive statistics. Results: A total of 1,618 papers were published in ASCRO in which 477 papers were cited in 903 citations. Each published paper was cited on average 0.6 times, while each of the cited papers received 1.9 quotations on average. The largest number of citations per paper is 20, and the largest number of citations per year is 63 in 1991. According to age, 96 papers received the largest number of citations three years after they had been published, and the oldest cited papers are 45 years old. ASCRO was cited in 302 journals, and the largest number of citations (19%) was recorded in Collegium Antropologicum. Out of the total of 903 citations, 41% were made by Croatian authors. Croatian and foreign authors cited in 3.7% of papers, and in 55.3% of papers citations were made only by foreign authors. ASCRO is cited by authors from 73 countries, of which 33 are European, 19 are Asian, 10 American, 9 African and 2 authors come from Australia and Oceania. Conclusion: ASCRO's improvement in the quality has been recorded in all of the analyzed parameters over the past ten years with respect to the results obtained by citation analysis in 2008. Key words Bibliometrics; Dental Journalism; Periodicals as Topic; Open Access Publishing
This edited collection addresses climate change journalism from the perspective of temporality, showcasing how various time scales—from geology, meteorology, politics, journalism, and lived ...cultures—interact with journalism around the world.Analyzing the meetings of and schisms between various temporalities as they emerge from reporting on climate change globally, Climate Change and Journalism: Negotiating Rifts of Time asks how climate change as a temporal process gets inscribed within the temporalities of journalism. The overarching question of climate change journalism and its relationship to temporality is considered through the themes of environmental justice and slow violence, editorial interventions, ecological loss, and political and religious contexts, which are in turn explored through a selection of case studies from the US, France, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Canada, and the UK.This is an insightful resource for students and scholars in the fields of journalism, media studies, environmental communication, and communications generally.
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