Tackling the emotional toll together: How journalists address harassment with connective practices

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110552
Author(s):  
Anu Kantola ◽  
Anu A Harju

In this article, we examine how journalists address and tackle online harassment by connective practices that involve joint action with peers and editors that we find are particularly effective in addressing the emotional effects of harassment. Theoretically, we bridge community of practice research with theories of emotional labour to develop a novel perspective to examine online harassment. Drawing on 22 interviews with Finnish journalists, we find three categories of connective practices that are particularly effective in tackling harassment: (1) supportive connection between the journalist and the editor; (2) shared collegial practices among peers in the newsrooms and (3) emotional engagement among peers outside the newsroom. All three categories illustrate how journalists as a community of practice develop new practices through dynamic processes innovation, improvisation, trial and error, reciprocal learning and mutual engagement. Importantly, emotional labour forms an important dimension of these practices as the journalists jointly address and tackle the emotional effects of harassment. We posit that the effectiveness of these connective practices largely stems from their ability to provide emotional support. While addressing feelings of fear, anger and shame, these shared practices also help consolidate the newly acquired knowledge and the professional identity under attack. Finally, we offer recommendations for newsrooms and journalists on how to collectively counter harassment and develop policies to address it.

Author(s):  
Janis Davis

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine what processes facilitate, temper, or impede occupational therapy identity development in a community of practice. Methods: A multiple case design organized data collected from five in-depth interviews with occupational therapy students on level II fieldwork. A cross-case analysis was used to arrive at multiple case themes. Results: Themes emerged as responses to participation in a community of practice: a) professional relationships; b) supervision types; and c) responsibility for professional identity development. Results suggest that communities of practice have unique characteristics that either inhibit students from adopting professional identity or draw them closer to the center of the profession. Conclusions: Responsibility for professional identity development lies with both student and community of practice. These findings suggest attention must be paid to the quality of the community of practice if students are to experience a successful trajectory into the profession of occupational therapy.


Author(s):  
Márcia Cristina De Costa Trindade Cyrino ◽  
Loreni Aparecida Ferreira Baldini

O objetivo do presente artigo é identificar as ações da formadora e a dinâmica de uma Comunidade de Prática de Formação de Professores de Matemática - CoP- FoPMat que contribuíram para constituição/mobilização de Conhecimentos Tecnológicos e Pedagógicos do Conteúdo – TPACK. Para tanto, foi realizada uma investigação qualitativa de cunho interpretativos da prática dessa comunidade no empreendimento de discutir modos de integrar o software GeoGebra no ensino de matemática. Os resultados evidenciaram que as ações da formadora e a dinâmica da CoP promoveram o engajamento mútuo de seus membros no processo de formação, a constituição de um repertório específico que fomentou a construção/mobilização de conhecimentos necessários para integração tecnologias digitais no ensino de Matemática.The purpose of this article is to identify the actions of the professor and the dynamics of a Community of Practice of Mathematics Teachers Education - CoP-FoPMat that contributed to the constitution/mobilization of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge - TPACK. Therefore, a qualitative research of interpretation nature of practice episodes of this community in the project to discuss ways of integrating GeoGebra software in mathematics teaching was done. The results showed that the actions of the professor and dynamics of CoP promoted the mutual engagement of its members in the education process, the establishment of a specific repertoire that fomented the construction/mobilization expertise to integrate digital technologies in mathematics education.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Adaora Isabella Odis

Divorce is a legal separation of husband and wife, leaving each other free to remarry. It is also to break off a marriage legally. Marriage is a state of being legally joined as husband and wife. A family's social support is one of the major ways that family positively impacts health. Marriage is associated with physical health, psychological well-being, and low mortality. Marriage in particular has been studied in the way it affects health. Marriage is thought to protect well-being by providing companionship, emotional support, and economic security. It was also revealed that divorce has psychological and emotional effects on women. This article review discovered that divorced women and children experience more social isolation, which makes them end up producing greater feelings of loneliness, unhappiness, and lower self-esteem. Some psychological and emotional effects of divorce on women which include factors like; low appetite, reduced physical energy and strength, chest pain, severe pressure in chest difficulty in hearing, eye pain, digestive problem, lower abdomen pain, back pain headache, sleeping disturbance, worthless, suicidal attempt, decreased level of confidence, shocked, feeling of shame, feeling of sorrow in her heart, worried, anxious, irritated towards her life, suppressed problem, feeling bad, upset, feeling of miserable life, among other things as the major emotional and psychological effects of divorce on women.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shantel Ehrenberg

In this writing I offer critical illuminations and diffractions with(in) researching, producing and performing a piece of choreographic practice research titled (in)fertile territories: a performance lecture. I utilize the concept of affective dissonance as x-ray to get closer to feelings and emotional labour as an early-career researcher in an institutional context. The writing is grounded in the cultural politics of emotion, and presents choreographic practice research, feminist critical reflection, and writing as technologies mobilized in the hopes of birthing something anew with significantly personal choreographic material.


2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinéad Murnane ◽  
Anna Browne

AbstractBy understanding knowledge to be performative – a ‘dynamic and ongoing social accomplishment’, rather than a representation or commodity – we view knowledge, or more accurately ‘knowing’, as a capability that emerges from, is embodied by, and embedded in recurrent social practices. The fluent knowing-in-practice that distinguishes an expert practitioner from a novice is developed through the reflexive interaction of the practitioner with their peers and their real-life work practices . Our key aim in this research was to explore whether it is possible for the abstracted classroom setting to approximate real-life work contexts, thereby enabling the active physical, mental, and emotional engagement of learner/practitioners within their community of practice, which have been demonstrated in the literature to be central to learning. How might training programmes actively engage learners in this way? We explored these questions through focus groups and interviews with participants on a professional IT management training programme and found that real-life contexts can be approximated to an extent, such that learner/ practitioners are enabled to learn from their own and each other’s experience of addressing issues in relation to IT management.


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