Raising Our Game: Effects of Citizen Journalism on Twitter for Professional Identity and Working Practices of British Sport Journalists

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon McEnnis
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Breaking News ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Using Data

This article presents a study that examined what citizen journalism on Twitter has meant for the professional identity and working practices of British sport journalists, using data from a series of in-depth, semistructured interviews. Sport journalists recognized the need to strive for higher professional standards to ensure that their output is of greater cultural significance than that of citizen journalists. Trust—achieved through the ideologies of truth, reliability, and insight—was seen as essential to achieving this distinction. The democratization of breaking news has meant that red-top tabloid and 24-hr rolling news environments must reinvent themselves by making greater use of other journalistic practices including investigative reporting.

9Mobile news SMS entrepreneurship and citizen journalism potentials in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Isaac Imo-Ter Nyam ◽  
Stella-Maris Ngozi Okpara
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Mobile Telecommunications ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Telecommunications Company

Abstract There is increased mobile telecommunications penetration across Nigeria. One of the realities connected to such penetration is the news-text services offered by the country’s 9Mobile mobile telecommunications company. This content analysis and covert non-participant observation research examined news entrepreneurial and citizen journalism potentials of the service. Findings show that news SMS service is encouraging, but issues such as delayed delivery and incomplete replications concurrently hamper entrepreneurial and citizen journalism benefits. The degree of diversity of 9Mobile news SMS contents is also poor. Nevertheless, there was significant use of prominent news stories – as derived from the hardcopies of the sourcing national newspapers. The research notes the need for news SMS copyright and plagiarism checks alongside other professional standards. Overall, it is pertinent to reiterate that irrespective of shortcomings, convergent news deliveries of 9Mobile SMS-MoreNews retain significant potentials for entrepreneurship and citizen journalism.

Exploring Culturally Sustaining Writing Pedagogy in Urban Classrooms

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Woodard ◽  
Andrea Vaughan ◽  
Emily Machado
Keyword(s):  
Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Writing Curriculum ◽  
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Critical Practices ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Urban Classrooms

We examine how culturally sustaining pedagogy that fosters linguistic and cultural pluralism might be taken up in writing instruction. Using data collected through semistructured interviews with nine urban elementary and middle school writing teachers, we document teachers’ conceptualizations and enactments of culturally sustaining writing pedagogy. Findings indicate that these teachers tended to make space for explicit discussions of language, culture, and power in the writing curriculum and to problematize expressions of dominant culture, such as an emphasis on official languages. We also explore the tensions that these teachers experienced in their pedagogy while engaging in culturally sustaining methods; for example, we documented teachers’ sense that writing needed to be more formal than speech and instances where their critical practices put them at odds with stakeholders in their schools. This work represents an emerging understanding of how culturally sustaining literacy pedagogy might be implemented in practice.

scholarly journals Towards professional responsibility for language and literacy: exploring vocational teachers’ emerging language and literacy understandings and identities

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Bak ◽  
Pauline O'Maley
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Professional Responsibility ◽  
Vocational Teachers ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Dialogic Approach ◽  
Language Literacy ◽  
Using Data

The role of vocational teachers is complex and evolving (Moodie & Wheelahan 2012). The imperative to also attend to students’ language literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills adds to this complexity. Using data from interviews with eight teachers, this paper explores this emergent space in relation to impacts on their sense of capacity and confidence to attend to LLN, and ways this is being incorporated into a renewed, but often still fragile sense of professional identity (Brookfield 2000). Where the focus of discussion is often on LLN requirements, we concentrate here on the perceptions and experiences of the teachers themselves, and how these insights may inform our approach as LLN specialists. We conclude that vocational teachers appear willing travellers on this journey, but often feel they have a distance to go. We make a case for a collaborative dialogic approach to this shared challenge.

“What We Do Crosses over to Activism”

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Cifor ◽  
Michelle Caswell ◽  
Alda Allina Migoni ◽  
Noah Geraci
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Archives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Orientations ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Using Data

Using data gleaned from semistructured interviews with seventeen community archives founders, volunteers, and staff at twelve sites, this paper examines the relations and roles of community archives and archivists in social justice activism. Our research uncovered four findings on the politics of community archives. First, community-based archivists identify as activists, advocates, or community organizers, and this identification shapes their understandings of community archives work and the missions of community archives. Second, community-based archives offer substantial critiques of neutrality in their ethical orientations and thus present new ethical foundations for practice. Third, by activating their collections, community archives play significant roles within contemporary social movements including struggles for racial justice and against gentrification. Finally, community archives are at the forefront of the profession in their engagements with activists. Community archives have much to contribute to practice and scholarship on activism, outreach, and public engagement with the past.

Images of a ‘good nurse’ presented by teaching staff

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 687-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia de Araujo Sartorio ◽  
Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Nursing School ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Patient Advocates ◽  
Good Nurse ◽  
Combine Authority

Nursing is at the same time a vocation, a profession and a job. By nature, nursing is a moral endeavor, and being a ‘good nurse’ is an issue and an aspiration for professionals. The aim of our qualitative research project carried out with 18 nurse teachers at a university nursing school in Brazil was to identify the ethical image of nursing. In semistructured interviews the participants were asked to choose one of several pictures, to justify their choice and explain what they meant by an ethical nurse. Five different perspectives were revealed: good nurses fulfill their duties correctly; they are proactive patient advocates; they are prepared and available to welcome others as persons; they are talented, competent, and carry out professional duties excellently; and they combine authority with power sharing in patient care. The results point to a transition phase from a historical introjection of religious values of obedience and service to a new sense of a secular, proactive, scientific and professional identity.

The Nightly Round: Space, Social Capital, and Urban Black Nightlife

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Spatial Isolation ◽  
Urban Blacks ◽  
Black Lesbians ◽  
Using Data

Using data generated from participant observation and semistructured interviews, I consider the ways in which nightlife, or what might be imagined as the nightly round—a process encompassing the social interactions, behaviors, and actions involved in going to, being in, and leaving the club—is used to mitigate the effects of social and spatial isolation, complementing the accomplishment of the daily round. Through an analysis of the social world of the Spot, I argue that understanding the ways in which urban blacks use space in the nightclub to mediate racial segregation, sexual segregation, and limited social capital expands our current understanding of the spatial mobility of urban blacks as well as the important role of extra–neighborhood spaces in such processes. Further, I highlight the ways that urban blacks use space in the nightclub to leverage socioeconomic opportunities and enhance social networks. While I found that black heterosexual and lesbian and gay patrons used space in similar ways at the Spot, black lesbians and gays were more likely to use the club as a space to develop ties of social support.

scholarly journals R̶e̶s̶i̶s̶t̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ censorship is futile

First Monday ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zubair Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
State Level ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Using Data

The Internet has become the new battle ground between authoritarian regimes and ordinary individuals who want unimpeded access to information. The immense popularity of online activism and citizen journalism enabled by social media has instigated state level players to partially or completely block access to the Internet. In return, individuals and organizations have been employing various anti-censorship tools to circumvent these restrictions. In this paper, we claim that censorship is futile as not only has it been ineffective in restricting access, it has also had the side effect of popularising blocked content. Using data from Alexa Web rankings, Google Trends, and YouTube Statistics, we quantify the ineffectiveness of state level censorship in Pakistan and Turkey and highlight the emergence of the Streisand Effect. We hope that our findings will, a) prove to governments and other players the futility of their actions, and b) aid citizens around the world in using legal measures to counteract censorship by showing its ineffectiveness.

scholarly journals Role of Technology in Self-Assessment and Feedback Among Hospitalist Physicians: Semistructured Interviews and Thematic Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Lukas Yin ◽  
Pargol Gheissari ◽  
Inna Wanyin Lin ◽  
Michael Sobolev ◽  
John P Pollak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Patient Relationships

BACKGROUND Lifelong learning is embedded in the culture of medicine, but there are limited tools currently available for many clinicians, including hospitalists, to help improve their own practice. Although there are requirements for continuing medical education, resources for learning new clinical guidelines, and developing fields aimed at facilitating peer-to-peer feedback, there is a gap in the availability of tools that enable clinicians to learn based on their own patients and clinical decisions. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the technologies or modifications to existing systems that could be used to benefit hospitalist physicians in pursuing self-assessment and improvement by understanding physicians’ current practices and their reactions to proposed possibilities. METHODS Semistructured interviews were conducted in two separate stages with analysis performed after each stage. In the first stage, interviews (N=12) were conducted to understand the ways in which hospitalist physicians are currently gathering feedback and assessing their practice. A thematic analysis of these interviews informed the prototype used to elicit responses in the second stage. RESULTS Clinicians actively look for feedback that they can apply to their practice, with the majority of the feedback obtained through self-assessment. The following three themes surrounding this aspect were identified in the first round of semistructured interviews: collaboration, self-reliance, and uncertainty, each with three related subthemes. Using a wireframe, the second round of interviews led to identifying the features that are currently challenging to use or could be made available with technology. CONCLUSIONS Based on each theme and subtheme, we provide targeted recommendations for use by relevant stakeholders such as institutions, clinicians, and technologists. Most hospitalist self-assessments occur on a rolling basis, specifically using data in electronic medical records as their primary source. Specific objective data points or subjective patient relationships lead clinicians to review their patient cases and to assess their own performance. However, current systems are not built for these analyses or for clinicians to perform self-assessment, making this a burdensome and incomplete process. Building a platform that focuses on providing and curating the information used for self-assessment could help physicians make more accurately informed changes to their own clinical practice and decision-making.

“Most [False Reports] Involve Teens”: Officer Attitudes Toward Teenage Sexual Assault Complainants—A Qualitative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Eryn Nicole O’Neal ◽  
Brittany E. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sex Crimes ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Officer Attitudes ◽  
Practical Implications

Scholars, advocates, and victims have repeatedly criticized the police treatment of sexual assault (SA) complainants. Apathetic attitudes and hostile behavior on the part of the police have likely resulted from socialization into a culture that condones the use of force and violence and blames SA victims for their victimization. Using data from in-depth semistructured interviews with 52 Los Angeles Police Department sex crimes detectives, we examine officer attitudes toward teenage complainants of SA. Notably, almost three fourths of the respondents ( n = 38; 73%) mentioned that teenagers lie about SA. Practical implications, theoretical advancements, and directions for future research are discussed.

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