The professional identity of Czech journalists in an international perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 452-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marína Urbániková ◽  
Jaromír Volek
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Liberal Democratic

This article, placed in the field of comparative journalism studies, explores the extent to which Czech journalists share their professional identity and compares the congruence of their professional identity with selected Western journalistic communities working in the liberal, democratic-corporatist, and polarized pluralism media model defined by Hallin and Mancini. The results show that the professional identity structure of Czech journalists does not, in principle, differ from that of foreign journalists. This implies that they have cut themselves from the Soviet journalistic model. Czech journalists do not significantly differ in the intensity of the selected professional values, and the measure of their professional identity split is comparable to that of their foreign counterparts.

scholarly journals Professional identity construction: becoming and being a dietician in Brazil, France and Spain

2022 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Clara de Moraes Prata Gaspar ◽  
Cristina Larrea-Killinger
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Set Up

Professional socialization is a complex process that leads to the professional identity. While several studies have focused on the professional identity of physicians and nurses, few studies analyzed this aspect among dieticians. Furthermore, those studies did not consider the influence of sociocultural norms. The aim of this study was to analyze the construction of the professional identity of Brazilian, French and Spanish dieticians. A qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews was set up. The construction of the professional identity of Brazilian, French and Spanish dieticians is characterized by the incorporation of skills, knowledge and roles. This process was marked by transformations, mainly related to food and body. Dieticians from the three nationalities shared similar professional values grounded in a medical-nutritional rationale. However, their professional identity also resulted from a continuous process of interaction with patients, peers and the socio-cultural environment.

The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Democratic Tradition ◽  
Political Idea ◽  
Democratic Constitution

This book discusses freedom of speech, which is central to the liberal democratic tradition. Freedom of speech touches on every aspect of our social and political system and receives explicit and implicit protection in every modern democratic constitution. Moreover, it is frequently referred to in public discourse and has inspired a wealth of legal and philosophical literature. The book provides a critical analysis of the foundations, rationales, and ideas that underpin freedom of speech as a political idea, and as a principle of positive constitutional law. In doing so, it examines freedom of speech in a variety of national and supranational settings from an international perspective.

Technology, Gender, and Professional Identity

2013 ◽  
pp. 128-147
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

On its surface, technology does not appear to be a topic that is gendered. Both men and women use technology, and it must, therefore, be shaped by those who use it. However, both technology and gender are dependent on cultural, social, and historical contexts. These contexts shape how technologies are designed and used and how technologies and gender is understood. Currently, information technologies are associated with masculinity. In a similar manner, librarianship is gendered. Not only is the demographic makeup of the profession female-intensive, with approximately 80% of all LIS professionals being women, but some have argued that its core professional values, specifically access to information and service, are feminine in nature – as are its traditional activities, specifically cataloguing and children’s librarianship. This chapter closely examines a feminist critique of librarianship by Harris (1992) that argues librarians are embracing technology in an effort to improve the perception of librarianship and make it more masculine. The status of male librarians is examined in light of Harris’s argument, alongside an examination of Library 2.0 and how technology is used as part of its service philosophy. This chapter argues that the relationship between gender and technology is more complex than Harris argues.

Shifting foundations: Journalism and the power of the ‘common good’

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 801-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy Hess
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Relationship

This essay rethinks the relationship between news media and the universal notion of the ‘common good’ as a key foundational concept for journalism studies. It challenges dominant liberal democratic theories of the press linked to the idea of the ‘public good’ to offer a new way of conceptualizing news media’s relationship to civic life that incorporates power and legitimacy in the changing media world. In doing so, it argues current understandings of journalism’s relationship to the common good also require some re-alignment. The essay draws on Pierre Bourdieu to contend the common good can be understood as a global doxa – an unquestionable orthodoxy that operates as if it were objective truth – across wider social space. How this is carried out in practice depends on the specific context in which it is understood. It positions the common good in relation to news media’s symbolic power to construct reality and argues certain elites generate and reinforce their legitimacy by being perceived as central to negotiating understandings of the common good with links to culture, community and shared values.

Professional Socialization During Restructuring: A Study of Workload and Career Time

2021 ◽  
pp. 0095327X2110222
Author(s):  
Joel Nilsson ◽  
Johan Österberg
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Embedded Strategies

This article examines the experiences of newly graduated officers and specialist officers, as they recently entered employment in the Swedish Armed Forces. Building on 35 interviews, this article illustrates the dynamics of excessive workload and an unstructured working environment, and how embedded strategies for mentoring and guidance can reduce negative outcomes associated with the workload. The article introduces the concept of career time, reflecting the participant’s propensity to perform unpaid work to pursue a career in the organization. This study reveals tensions between organizational and employee interests, and experiences of exclusion from the officer profession, contextualized drawing on classical theorists Foucault and Habermas. When restructuring organizations, the quest for efficiency can outweigh professional values, such as esprit de corps and taking pride in work and professional identity.

scholarly journals Correlation among academic self-efficacy, professional identity, and professional attitude of higher vocational nursing students†

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Tian-Liang Xu ◽  
Jiang-Nan Zhao ◽  
Yan-Yan Zhang ◽  
Gai-Li Jing
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Professional Attitude ◽  
Vocational Nursing Students ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy ◽  
Vocational Nursing

Abstract Objective To analyze the influence of professional identity and academic efficacy on the professional attitude of higher vocational nursing students. Methods A total of 656 higher vocational nursing students were investigated with general information questionnaire, academic self-efficacy scale, professional identity scale, and professional attitude scale of nursing students. Results The score of professional attitude of higher vocational nursing students was (106.34 ± 9.86), which is found to be in the upper middle level. The professional attitude of higher vocational nursing students is positively correlated with academic self-efficacy (P < 0.05), and with learning ability self-efficacy (P < 0.01). Professional cognition, professional will, and professional values have a positive predictive effect on the professional attitude of higher vocational nursing students (P < 0.05). Conclusions Academic self-efficacy and professional identity are important predictors of professional attitude. Learning behavior self-efficacy, professional cognition, professional will, and professional values have a significant impact on the establishment of positive professional attitude.

scholarly journals TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL SATISFACTION AND SOLIDARITY IN A CHANGING SCHOOL ORGANIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 8(62) (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Simona Eftimie ◽  
◽  
Alina Mărgărițoiu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
School Organization ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Check List ◽  
Professional Satisfaction ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
University Level

In the context of social challenges, of school organization continuous change and teachers looking for their professional identity, we propose to identify which are the reasons that teachers continue to perform this profession, what they like and dislike about their job / professional environment. So, this paper aims to analyse some issues concerning professional values associated with their satisfaction for their job and professional solidarity of teachers from pre-university level. For this purpose, we have proposed a qualitative study, based on check – list (Sort Card) and interview. We have used check list (sort cart as instrument) in order to establish a hierarchy of the reasons that teachers (investigated subjects) like and what they dislike about their job; and also, we have used interview in order to complete the information about our subjects’ professional satisfaction. Other results are discussed here.

scholarly journals A Professional. Or How to Recognize One

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Ruellan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Common

The author, a journalism researcher, builds on points that have structured his investigation over the last 25 years. He begins with the initial developments in journalism studies, developing three areas of research on the common denominator for understanding professional identity: 1 – Understanding journalism as a construct (and not as permanent data); 2 – Analyze journalism as an object and result of competition whose objective is to enforce a symbolic order (or a dominant visual one); 3 – Understanding how this order is continuously subjected (or transformed) by individuals or groups of individuals. O autor, pesquisador em jornalismo, retoma pontos que estruturam sua própria investigação nos últimos 25 anos. Ele situa o contexto no qual inicialmente se desenvolveram os estudos em jornalismo. A partir daí, desenvolve três linhas de pesquisa sob o denominador comum de compreender uma identidade profissional: 1 – Entender o jornalismo como uma construção (e não como um dado estável); 2 – Analisá-lo como objeto e resultado de conflitos de concorrência cujo objetivo é impor uma ordem simbólica (ou uma visão dominante); 3 – Compreender como essa ordem é constantemente subjetivada (ou transformada) por indivíduos ou por grupos de indivíduos. El autor, un investigador en el periodismo, reanuda los puntos que estructuran su propia investigación en los últimos 25 años. Presenta el contexto donde inicialmente se han desarrollado los estudios de periodismo. De ahí en adelante, el autor desarrolla tres líneas de investigación bajo el mismo objetivo de comprender una identidad profesional: 1 – Comprender el periodismo como una construcción (y no como un dato estable); 2 - Analizarlo como objeto y resultado de los conflictos de competencia, cuyo objetivo es imponer un orden simbólico (o una visión dominante); 3 - Comprender la constante subjetivización de esa orden (o transformación) por individuos o grupos de individuos.

scholarly journals Challenging presentism in journalism studies: An emotional life history approach to understanding the lived experience of journalists

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 670-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
News Values ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Journalistic Professionalism

This article argues that studying the emotional life histories of journalists will help us better understand the profound changes and challenges facing the profession. The article suggests that the field has been marked by ‘presentism’ and requires new tools and vocabularies for studying how transformations in journalism have shaped journalists as individuals and journalism as a professional identity over the longer term. It proposes that an emphasis on emotional life histories allows us to think differently about the big and recurring debates in the field by, (1) offering us a way of seeing historical transformations from the bottom up, on the basis of lived and embodied experience and (2) providing a vocabulary and a method for explaining changes in journalistic professionalism, practices, and self-understanding – including journalistic norms, role perceptions, identities, and news values.

Journalism students’ professional identity in the making: Implications for education and practice

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 820-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Williams ◽  
Maria Victoria Guglietti ◽  
Sally Haney
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Journalism Students ◽  
Changing Practices

Changes in journalism spurred by technological shifts and industry restructuring have left observers questioning both the nature of the profession and what educators ought to do in order to prepare aspiring journalists. Despite attempts to rethink what it means to be a journalist and the educational experience needed to prepare students, few qualitative studies have emerged that track how learners are negotiating professional values. This article does precisely that by providing a case study of how students in an undergraduate Canadian university’s journalism program are conceptualizing the profession against the backdrop of changing practices and principles. Based on the data generated from 96 open-ended reflections, this investigation offers some important findings about the student professional identity experience within a 4-year program. More precisely, the results indicate that the ideals of ‘high modernism’ (especially those surrounding objectivity, the role of the public watchdog, and ethical practice) are being negotiated by journalists in training in important and meaningful ways.

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