Journalism and the Public-Service Model

Author(s):  
Stephen Coleman

Amongst the loftiest of journalism’s grand claims has been the ideal of “public service,” a term suggesting the antithesis of self-serving mendacity or mean-spirited motivation. To characterize oneself as a public servant is to profess a certain kind of civic virtue: an intention to act for all rather than some. This chapter addresses the question: What does it mean for journalists to provide a public service? The chapter considers the claims of journalists to be providers of a public service and the conditions that allow or inhibit the realization of such a high-minded aspiration. Further discussion explores the grounds upon which journalists have claimed to serve the public and concludes by offering a normative framework for public-service journalism within the contemporary media ecology.

Communicology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
D.A. Kemenev

The article investigates the imageological aspect of mentor’s communicative competence in public service and reveals the communicative functions of mentor’s image in relation to the mentees. The author determines the communicative skills necessary for the mentor in all processes and stages of this personnel technology. Based on the analysis of scientific publications, the author discloses and justifies the role models of mentor’s behavior in relation to the mentees from the perspective of the mentor’s image, authority, and communicative competence. The author has conducted an expert survey among public servants, which allowed identify the main professional, business, moral, psychological, and integral qualities that are the most effectively developed by the public servant in the process of performing mentor’s functions. As a result, the author suggests a structural-logical model of the communicative competence of a mentor in the public service in the process of perceiving its communicative knowledge, skills, and competencies for achieving the effectiveness of mentoring.


Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mastracci

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.30) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Aminu Mohammed Lawan ◽  
Razlini Mohd Ramli

Globalization is the increasing interaction of peoples, states or countries through the growth of the global trade, international flow of capital, ideas and culture. The paper discusses how privatization of public corporations and invention of information and communication technology (ICT) lead to the retrenchment and casualization of public servant. The aim of this study is to examines the impact of globalization on the public servant in Nigeria. The methodology involves the use of secondary data, through a systematic literature review which entails the document analysis of related matters. The findings reveal that globalization infringes on the right of a public servant by making them vulnerable without job security. The paper concludes that government must stop unfair labor practice such as retrenchment and casualization of workers, and improve good working conditions to make public servant more productive. 


Author(s):  
Afif Al Farizi ◽  
Dian Suluh Kusuma Dewi ◽  
Insyira Yusdiawan Azhar

This study aims to determine how the application of the New Public Service concept to the WADUL-E Service (Aspiration and Electronic Complaints Forum) in Pacitan Regency. This study used a qualitative approach and the determination of informants using the purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the concept of the New Public Service was not fully applicable to the Pacitan WADUL-E Service, because the researchers did not find data related to the 6th indicator, which is serving not directing which contains the position of the leader here, not as the owner but as a public servant or public servant. However, the rest of the concept of the new public service is in accordance with the real situation in the Pacitan Wadule Service. Hence, it is necessary to have in-depth research to find out the leadership side in the service. Based this research, it can be conculed that it is one of the public innovation efforts created by the Pacitan Regency Government is to provide Complaint Services in the form of WADUL-E Services of Pacitan Regency which was formed and inaugurated on March 14, 2018. By utilizing this service, it is hoped that the aspirations and complaints of the Pacitan citizens are connected to regional government. Keywords: E-Service, New Public Service, WADUL-E Pacitan


Author(s):  
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

Research on emotion and intimacy has been slow to develop in journalism studies. This is due to an allegiance to the model of liberal democracy and the associated ideal of objectivity. However, a growing body of work has shown that despite the historical allegiance to the ideal of objectivity, journalistic texts are—and always have been—profoundly infused with emotion. Emotion and intimacy serve crucial roles in the public discourse of journalism. They are used deliberately and strategically by journalists because they facilitate audience engagement and understanding. Audiences appear to connect with concrete stories of lived experience that dramatize the large and often abstract events that make up the news. Such connection can facilitate the cultivation of compassion—or feeling with others—and thereby engender cosmopolitan sensibilities. Growing scholarly attention to emotion and intimacy in journalism has occurred within the context of a rapidly changing media ecology. Technological changes associated with the digital era, including the rise of user-generated content and the emergence of social media, have ushered in a greater role for “ordinary people” in news production and participation. This has brought about the privileging of more emotional and embodied forms of storytelling. At the same time, these transformations, alongside broader existential threats to journalism, have rendered attention to the emotional impact of journalistic labor particularly urgent.


Author(s):  
Ryan M. Milner

This book presents an analysis of internet memes, the linguistic, image, audio, and video texts created, circulated, and transformed by countless cultural participants across vast networks and collectives. They can be widely shared catchphrases, auto-tuned songs, manipulated stock photos, or recordings of physical performances. They’re used to make jokes, argue points, and connect friends. As these texts have become increasingly prominent and prolific, the logics underscoring them—multimodality, reappropriation, resonance, collectivism, and spread—have become lynchpins of mediated participation. Even as individual internet memes rise and fall, the contemporary media ecology persists in being memetic. In this ecology, vibrant collective conversations occur across constellations of mediated commentary, remix, and play. Through memetic media, everyday members of the public can contribute their small strands of expression to the vast cultural tapestry. This book assesses the relationship between those small strands and that vast tapestry, exploring the good, the bad, and the in-between of collective conversation. Memetic media are used to connect participants across distance and context, but they’re also used to dehumanize others through the dominant perspectives they normalize. They’re used to express beyond narrow gatekeeping systems, but they’re still embedded in wider culture industries. Memetic media bring with them a mix of new potentials and old tensions, woven into the cultural tapestry by countless contributors. This book charts that intertwine.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
С. М. Серьогін ◽  
Н. Г. Сорокіна ◽  
О. М. Шеломовська

The article is devoted to the study of the motivation of the civil servants and local government officials’work. The concept of the motivation was revealed. The elements of moral and psychological methods ofthe motivation were analyzed. The importance of material and immaterial stimulation in public service wasexplained. The main motives and peculiarities of stimulation of a public servant in the modern conditionsof public service development in Ukraine were studied on the basis of empirical data. In particular, ithas been found out that the main motive for joining the public service is a stable salary and the desire ofpublic servants to work for the benefit of the state and society. So, mercantile aspirations in financial termsdominate - stable payment for work, as well as patriotic, valuable, moral and ethical desire to work forthe benefit of the state are in the minds of the citizens. The results of the study show that the prestige ofpublic service remains quite low. The main problems which negatively influence the image of the publicservice and make it unattractive to the public are high staff turnover, incomplete implementation of socialguarantees, poor financial support, and partial satisfaction of the basic needs of public servants, whichreduce the effectiveness of public administration in Ukraine.It is determined that the main way to increase the efficiency of public servants and in general publicadministration is to develop effective methods of the motivation and the stimulation, both economic andnon-economic. It was proven, that effective motivation in the public service depends to a large extent notonly on its filling of highly qualified personnel and efficiency, but also on trust and respect of the population.


Author(s):  
Fendy Artha Prissando

AbstrakPelayanan publik merupakan salah satu perwujudan dari fungsi pada aparatur negara sebagai abdi masyarakat. Pelayanan publik yang professional itu artinya pelayanan publik yang bercirikan oleh adanya akuntabilitas dan responsibilitas dari pemberi layanan. Pelayanan publik pada dasarnya merupakan sebuah upaya individu, kelompok atau birokrasi untuk memberikan bantuan serta kemudahan kepada masyarakat untuk mencapai suatu tujuan tertentu. Tugas terpenting dari pelayanan publik ini adalah memberikan pelayanan terbaik kepada masyarakat. Pelayanan publik memiliki suatu tujuan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat. Penelitian ini ditujukan untuk mengetahui bagaimana Pelayanan Publik di Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah (BPBD) Kota Kediri serta mengetahui strategi posko siaga penanganan penyebaran Covid-19. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif dan teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi, wawancara secara mendalam kepada informan, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menujukkan bahwa kualitas pelayanan publik di Kantor Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah (BPBD) Kota Kediri sudah baik dan sudah memberikan pelayanan publik dengan tepat kepada masyarakat yang membutuhkan bantuan dengan posko siaga.Kata Kunci: Kualitas; Pelayanan Publik; Prinsip Pelayanan. AbstractPublic service is one manifestation of the function of the state apparatus as a public servant. Professional public service means public service characterized by accountability and responsibility from service providers. Public service is basically an individual, group or bureaucratic effort to provide assistance and convenience to the community to achieve a certain goal. The most important task of this public service is to provide the best service to the community. Public services have a purpose to meet the needs of the community. This study was aimed to find out how the Public Service in the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Kediri City and to find out the strategy of the standby post for handling the spread of Covid-19. The research method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method and data collection techniques through observation, in-depth interviews with informants, and documentation. The results of the study show that the quality of public services at the Office of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Kediri City is good and has provided appropriate public services to people who need assistance with standby posts.Keywords: Quality; Public service; Service Principles.


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