The power of the cover: Symbolic contests around the Boston bombing suspect’s Rolling Stone cover

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Jenkins ◽  
Edson C Tandoc
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Cover Story ◽  
Interpretive Community ◽  
Rolling Stone ◽  
Boston Marathon ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Shed Light

Rolling Stone ignited a debate in July 2013 when it published a cover featuring alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The online version of the cover story drew comments expressing criticism and support of the cover. A qualitative analysis of comments posted within the first week of the cover story shed light on the image’s institutional meaning for Rolling Stone and cultural meaning for readers. Assessing this cover as a critical incident, this study shows how readers, through their comments, participated in the ongoing boundary work in the journalistic field, joining journalism’s interpretive community in defining professional roles, norms, and routines.

Out of bounds? How Gawker’s outing a married man fits into the boundaries of journalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 581-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson C Tandoc ◽  
Joy Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Interpretive Community ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Conde Nast

Gawker ignited a controversy when it published an article about a married Conde Nast executive who allegedly sought the services of a gay escort. The popular blog eventually removed the article following condemnation from readers and other journalists. Guided by the frameworks of boundary work and field theory, this study analyzed 65 news articles and 2203 online comments and found that journalists and audiences problematized Gawker’s identity as a journalistic organization and evaluated the article based on traditional standards of newsworthiness, audiences asserted their role in journalism’s larger interpretive community, and that the larger interpretive community assessed the article based on the ethics of outing. Investigating the discourse generated by this critical incident is important because it identifies where journalists and readers draw the boundaries of legitimate journalism, specifies the place of ethics in boundary discourse, and informs journalistic practice about the phenomenon of outing in the news.

scholarly journals Hybrid professionalism in journalism: Opportunities and risks of hacker sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Di Salvo ◽  
Colin Porlezza
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Online News ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Shed Light

Hackers have a double relevance with regard to the transformation of the journalistic field: first, they have established themselves as journalistic actors, even if their work may sometimes seem unfamiliar. Second, hackers have not only become important sources for information but they are also a topic of public interest in a data-driven society increasingly threatened by surveillance capitalism. This paper critically discusses the role of hackers as news sources by analyzing the “stalkerware” investigation carried out by the online news magazine Motherboard. Drawing from field theory and boundary work, the article sheds light on how hackers exert an increasing influence on journalism, its practices, epistemologies, and ethics, resulting in an increasing hybridization of journalism. Journalism has become a dynamic space, in which hackers are not only becoming relevant actors in the journalism field, but they often represent the only sources journalists have to shed light on wrongdoings. Hence, hackers are increasingly defining the conditions under which journalism is carried out, both in terms of its practices as well as in its normative framework.

scholarly journals Concerns Related to the COVID-19 in Adult Norwegians during the First Outbreak in 2020: A Qualitative Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4312
Author(s):  
Laila Skogstad ◽  
Inger Schou-Bredal ◽  
Tore Bonsaksen ◽  
Trond Heir ◽  
Øivind Ekeberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Response Options ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Norwegian Population ◽  
Shed Light

Concerns related to the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Norwegian population are studied in a cross-sectional web-survey conducted between 8 April and 20 May 2020. The qualitative thematic analysis of the open-ended question “Do you have other concerns related to the pandemic?”, followed a six-step process. Concerns from 1491 informants were analyzed, 34% of women and 30% of men (p = 0.05) provided concerns. Respondents with higher educational level reported concerns more often (86% vs. 83%, p = 0.022). The qualitative analysis revealed five themes—society, health, social activities, personal economy and duration—and 13 sub-themes, mostly related to the themes “society” and “health” (724 and 704, respectively). Empathy for others was prominent, for society (nationally and globally), but also concerns related to infecting others and family members at risk for developing serious illness if infected. The responses to the open-ended question yielded additional information, beyond the information obtained from questions with pre-categorized response options, especially related to concerns about society and health. Themes arising from the qualitative analysis shed light on what are important concerns for people during the pandemic and this may serve as targeted measures for the authorities.

One Year of #GamerGate: The Shared Twitter Link as Emblem of Masculinist Gamer Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 982-1003
Author(s):  
David O. Dowling ◽  
Christopher Goetz ◽  
Daniel Lathrop
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
One Year ◽  
Gaming Communities

Since the #GamerGate controversy erupted in 2014, anti-feminist gamers continue to lash out at feminists and supporters of progressive and inclusive gaming content. A key strategy in this discourse is the sharing of content via links on Twitter, which accompany messages positioning the sender on either side of the debate. Through qualitative analysis of a data set drawn from 1,311 tweets from 2016 to 2017, we argue that tweeted links are a salient tool for signaling affiliation with gaming communities. For anti-feminist gamers, the tweeted link defines masculinist gamer identity and constructs social boundaries against the increasing diversification of video game culture reflected in higher overall rates of feminist tweets. Links can be construed as revelatory of boundary work and thus can help shed insight on the extent to which #GamerGate discourse was intended to defend gaming culture as an exclusively masculine space.

Temporal-magnitudinal construal coding

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-151
Author(s):  
Mikołaj Deckert ◽  
Marek Molenda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Meaning Construction ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Coding Variants ◽  
Linguistic Coding ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This article looks into the interface of temporality and quantification. Drawing on the principles of Cognitive Linguistics, we use experimental as well as corpus methods to provide evidence on how the conceptual organisation and linguistic coding of content can play a role in meaning construction. With that broad agenda in mind, a major objective is to shed light on the construct of conventionalisation. For that purpose, construal coding variants are examined with a focus on nominal phrases that express time quantities. The examination involves two construal types (termed “cumulative” and “fractional”) that differ primarily in their prominence configurations, across three granularity levels of time conceptualisation. Our main finding – that the fractional and cumulative constructions are asymmetrically conventionalised – is contextualised through a qualitative analysis of naturally-occurring data to identify additional language use patterns and offer explanatory hypotheses.

Making collaboration work – developing boundary work and boundary awareness in emergency exercises

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Andersson ◽  
Berner Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rescue Services ◽  
Hazardous Environments ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose This study aims to investigate how boundary work is carried out at the incident site during exercises with police, ambulance and rescue services, and how boundary awareness is developed based on this boundary work. Collaboration in emergency work is challenging on many levels. The unforeseen and temporary nature of incidents presents basic challenges. Another important challenge is boundaries between specialised and autonomous emergency service organisations. Knowledge on how exercises are performed to increase the individuals' and organisations' preparedness for future joint-response work is relatively limited. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, full-scale exercises involving police, ambulance and rescue services and with repetition of practical scenarios and joint-reflection seminars are studied. Interview data with 26 exercise participants were analysed using thematic analysis. The analytic focus is on how boundaries are identified, negotiated and managed in the participants’ work. Findings Much of the work in the exercises was performed within distinct areas of expertise, in accordance with concrete routines, skills and responsibilities. Boundary work was often organised in the form of distribution of labour or creating chains of actions. The exercises shed light on challenges related to other aspects of emergency response, such as a lack of resources, diverging primary responsibilities, time-criticality and hazardous environments. The design allowed participants to explicate boundaries, to test and discuss alternative solutions and to visualise the effects of different solutions, as the scenarios were repeated. Originality/value The study found that the boundaries that were identified were often of institutional character, and were also related to the specific scenarios and to the actions taken in the activities. By integrating real-life experiences of collaborative work in the exercise, the exercise gained a certain meaning that was essential for the participants to develop boundary awareness.

Husserl’s epoche and the way of the sword: exploring pathways into phenomenological inquiry

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-402
Author(s):  
Bradley Edward Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Purpose Phenomenology is widely recognised for its power to generate nuanced understanding of lived experience and human existence. However, phenomenology is often made inaccessible to prospective researchers due to its specialised nomenclature and dense philosophical underpinnings. This paper explores the value of the researcher’s lived experience as a pathway into phenomenological inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to improve the accessibility of phenomenology as a method for qualitative analysis. It achieves this by aligning Husserl’s concept of phenomenological epoche, or bracketing of preconceptions, and the author’s lived experience as a practitioner of kendo, or Japanese fencing. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs the narrative vignette as a means of illuminating the intersections between kendo practice and the application of phenomenological epoche as it applies to the understanding of embodied sensemaking. Reflections on the narrative vignette identified a suite of techniques from kendo practice that were applied to a phenomenological approach for critical incident interviews. These techniques were then applied to 30 critical incident, semi-structured interviews as part of a PhD research project into embodied sensemaking. Findings The results from these interviews suggest that the kendo-derived techniques were effective in generating thick narratives from participants during semi-structured interviews. Examination of the results provided insights into the linkage between phenomenology as a continental philosophy and eastern perspectives such as those found within the Zen traditions and other aesthetic practices. Originality/value This research suggests that lived experience such as kendo practice can provide a ready-to-hand pathway to phenomenological inquiry.

‘It was him’: Representational strategies, identity, and legitimization in the Boston Marathon bombing trial narratives

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisda Chaemsaithong ◽  
Yoonjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Event Description ◽  
Boston Marathon Bombing ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Representational Practice ◽  
Capital Trial ◽  
Boston Marathon ◽  
Construct Meaning

Adopting a systemic functional linguistic view of language as a system of options from which language users choose to construct meaning, this study seeks to critically explicate the constitutive roles of reference terms and event description in accomplishing character positioning in the opening event of a recent high-profile capital trial, the Boston Marathon bombing trial of 2015. Incorporating Halliday’s concept of transitivity and Van Leeuwen’s inventory of social actors, the quantitative and qualitative analysis reveals that the prosecution and defence differ starkly in representational practice and that both reference terms and event description are prime stylistic devices that synergistically serve not only to construct and ascribe polarized identities to characters in their narratives but also to (de-)humanize the defendant before the verdict is reached, thereby (de-)legitimizing blame and responsibility and potentially influencing the jury’s decisions.

Swearing: Language for Feeling

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-261
Author(s):  
Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein ◽  
Rob Poh ◽  
Jorge L. Juncos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Tourette Syndrome ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Motor Behavior ◽  
Evolutionary Path ◽  
Shed Light

We hypothesize that swearing is an emotional action that hardly says anything other than expressing and evoking emotions and that studying swearing might shed light on the evolutionary path from motor behavior to language. Our lens is the involuntary swearing—coprolalia—associated with Tourette syndrome (ts). In a qualitative analysis of videotaped interviews with 16 ts sufferers and their families, we arrive at the following findings, of which the first one replicates previous findings, and the following are novel: (i) coprolalia, once believed psychogenic, is embodied; (ii) the pragmatics of swearing obeys the cultural rules of communication while violating the culture’s values; (iii) coprolalia is unique as a speech act as it relies mainly on cultural context rather than semantics; (iv) coprolalia’s sensitivity to culture affords its performative effectiveness in hurting its hearer. Therefore, reducing the automaticity of the hearer’s interpretation of the coprolaliac’s intention can reduce the hurtful effect.

Φωνές πειρατών στα ερτζιανά

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Σοφία Θεοδοσιάδου
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Pirate Radio ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Shed Light

This study attempts to shed light on the profile of the Greek radio pirate in the decade of the 1980s. The study draws on a series of 34 in-depth interviews with radio pirates of the period in the city of Thessaloniki, a city of particular interest for the growth and development of the radio pirate phenomenon in Greece. Some of the most important topics that the interview focused on were: educational, social and economical background but also the definition of the pirate and the motives for making pirate radio. A qualitative analysis was used to explain the results of the interviews.

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