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.

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.

Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 2252-2271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Journalistic Field

As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as a way for activists and journalists to network and spread information. Using a mixed-methods approach combining digital ethnographic content analysis with social network analysis and link analysis, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter to identify changes in field relations and practices. Employing the lenses of field theory and mediatization, this study finds parity and divergence in the themes, frames, format, and discourse of journalist and activist Twitter practices. While the traditions of objective journalism and affective activism persist, notable exceptions occurred, especially following acts of police suppression. The networked communities of professional and activist Twitter users were overlapping and interactive, suggesting hybridity at the margins of the journalistic field. Given the hybridizing of journalistic and journo-activist practices, this case study examines the role of social media in efforts to report on and bolster social change.

scholarly journals Viral News on the Coronavirus: Does it Contribute to Health Communication?

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (47) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources

From a century to a decade ago, the news media played a crucial role in providing the public with valuable in­formation, especially during a crisis. However, the advent of social media has brought about a change in ac­cess and distribution of the news and this may have resulted in less effec­tive health communication during this global coronavirus pandemic. These days, social media can have a great­er public reach and therefore, be the best tool to disseminate information. At the same time, there is the ques­tion of whether the important or trivial information is being shared. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of social media in providing the public with important information during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Using Great Britain as a case study, the research analysed the kind of content on the coronavirus that had gone vi­ral in online news sources in the Unit­ed Kingdom to determine whether the information that was being shared contributed or not to effective health communication. Keywords: news, viral news, online media, journalism, crisis communica­tion, coronavirus.

scholarly journals The Journalistic Field in a Time of Mediatization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Shed Light

The rise of digital technologies is having a profound impact on the practice and profession of journalism. As a consequence, scholars from a variety of disciplines have fashioned unique but complimentary perspectives to help explain the nature and significance of this transformation. Field theory is a prominent lens through which media sociologists have viewed the dynamics and transformations surrounding the practice and profession of journalism. More recently, communications scholars have developed theories of mediatization to explain the transformations brought about by the ubiquity of media throughout social life. While Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory offers a well-developed toolkit to address the dialectical relationship between structures and practices, its treatment of technology and conceptualization of the field are arguably less well suited to explain the convergent, hyper-mediated nature of contemporary social relations. By contrast, more recent theories of mediatization offer a less developed and less grandiose conceptualization of specific sociological dynamics, instead opting to shed light on the apparent emergence of a new ‘media logic’. By drawing on the most revealing aspects of each perspective, this paper searches for parity between the two through an examination of a prominent case study: the converging fields of contemporary journalism and activism as seen on Twitter. After reviewing the core components of each perspective and applying them to the case of study, the paper argues for the conceptualization of a mediatized superstructure to explain the ongoing hybridity and convergence across a variety of social fields.

scholarly journals Gaze-Driven Design Insights to Amplify Debugging Skills: A Learner-Centered Analysis Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Mangaroska ◽  
Kshitij Sharma ◽  
Michail Giannakos ◽  
Hallvard Trætteberg ◽  
Pierre Dillenbourg
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Gaze Patterns ◽  
Behavioural Regulation ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

This study investigates how multimodal user-generated data can be used to reinforce learner reflection, improve teaching practices, and close the learning analytics loop. In particular, the aim of the study is to utilize user gaze and action-based data to examine the role of a mirroring tool (i.e., Exercise View in Eclipse) in orchestrating basic behavioural regulation during debugging. The results demonstrated that students who processed the information presented in the Exercise View and acted upon it, improved their performance and achieved a higher level of success than those who failed to do so. The findings shed light on what constitutes relevant data within a particular learning context in programming using gaze patterns. Moreover, these findings could guide the collection of essential learner-centred analytics for designing usable, modular learning environments based on data-driven approaches.

Five ways BuzzFeed is preserving (or transforming) the journalistic field

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson C Tandoc
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
New York ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
New York Times ◽  
News Values ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
Journalistic Practice

Guided by field theory and the concept of journalistic boundary work, this study seeks to examine whether BuzzFeed, a new agent in the journalistic field, is participating in the preservation or transformation of the journalistic field. This is carried out by comparing its news outputs with those of The New York Times based on the markers – or boundaries – that defined traditional journalistic practice, particularly news values, topics, sources, formats, and norms. The analysis found that while news articles produced by BuzzFeed are exhibiting some departures from traditional journalistic practice, in general, BuzzFeed is playing by the rules, which might explain its legitimation as a recognized agent in the field.

Visual framing of the European refugee crisis in Der Spiegel and CNN International: Global journalism in news photographs

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Lea Hellmueller
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
News Magazine ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
News Outlet ◽  
And Control ◽  
Online News Sites ◽  
Visual Coverage

Building on previous research that has theorized and operationalized the concept of global journalism, this study analyzed 287 photographs published on CNN International and Der Spiegel online news sites to examine the evidence of global journalism practices in visual news content. The results of the quantitative content analysis revealed that the transnational news outlet CNN International more frequently used close-ups and tracking shots to feature refugees in its visual reportage than the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The large presence of the ‘human interest’ and the ‘lose/gain’ frames in CNN International’s visual coverage emphasized the humanitarian aspect of global suffering. In contrast, apart from the ‘human interest’ frame, the ‘law and control’ and ‘xenophobia’ frames were adopted in Der Spiegel’s visual coverage. Using such a comparison, this study discussed if news sources’ capacity of managing the visibility of suffering could reflect a cosmopolitan viewpoint on a global issue.

scholarly journals Peripheral news workers expelled to the periphery: The case of camera reporters

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 838-854
Author(s):  
Lenka Waschková Císařová ◽  
Monika Metykova
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Work ◽  
City Centre ◽  
News Production ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
The City ◽  
Television Studio ◽  
Rare Opportunity

The professionals behind television cameras are peripheral contributors to journalism who are often overlooked in journalistic research in contrast with co-workers who occupy clearly demarcated journalistic roles. In this article, we use the term camera reporters rather than the more frequently used terms such as cameramen or camera operators as we argue that these professionals are part of the journalistic field and their job titles in themselves question their belonging to this field. The aim of our article is to focus on the role of camera reporters as peripheral actors in the news production process – in this respect we address their journalistic culture, identity, autonomy and practice – and to understand their role not only in the context of boundary work within journalism but perhaps even more importantly in relation to changes brought about by the move of a television studio from the city centre to a residential suburb. The relocation provides a rare opportunity to study camera reporters in their work places and spaces at a time of disruption and adjustment. Our case study is based in a Czech television studio where we have conducted interviews with camera reporters and news reporters. Our findings are in line with other research on peripheral news workers and illustrate complex issues in the professional standing of camera reporters.

scholarly journals A Vector Semantics Approach to the Geoparsing Disambiguation Task for Texts in Spanish

10.29007/pl5h ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filomeno Alcántara ◽  
Alejandro Molina ◽  
Victor Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Online News ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Entity Extraction ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Named Entity Extraction ◽  
Future Work

Nowadays, online news sources generate continuous streams of information that includes references to real locations. Linking these locations to coordinates in a map usually requires two steps involving the named entity: extraction and disambiguation. In past years, efforts have been devoted mainly to the first task. Approaches to location disambiguation include knowledge-based, map-based and data-driven methods. In this paper, we present a work in progress for location disambiguation in news documents that uses a vector-semantic representation learned from information sources that include events and geographic descriptions, in order to obtain a ranking for the possible locations. We will describe the proposed method and the results obtained so far, as well as ideas for future work.

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