Measuring the Link Between Professional Role Conceptions, Perceived Role Enactment, and Journalistic Role Performance Across Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Claudia Mellado ◽  
Cornelia Mothes
Keyword(s):  
Professional Role ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Role Enactment ◽  
Role Conceptions

scholarly journals Journalistic illusio in a restrictive context: Role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment among Iranian journalists

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492092202
Author(s):  
Banafsheh Ranji
Keyword(s):  
Change Agent ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Role Enactment ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The Face ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
And Function

Discussions about Iranian journalism have disproportionately focused upon the restrictive political context of the country. Accordingly, journalism culture and the way journalists construct their roles and identities in the face of constraints in Iran have received scant attention. This study redresses this gap by focusing on Iranian journalists’ role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment. Based on interviews with 26 journalists working in media outlets in Iran, this study found that the role conceptions of Iranian journalists correspond to adversarial advocate, detective watchdog, change agent, educator and informer roles. Although the journalists perceive a large gap between their role ideals and their role performance, they believe they have occasionally been successful in acting out their roles. Journalists’ role conceptions and perceived role enactment serve as journalistic illusio, which not only motivate journalists to continue operating under pressure but also allow the journalistic field to exist and function over time in the restrictive media environment of Iran. These results are discussed in relation to whether and how journalism outside a democratic context is possible.

Domestic contestation over foreign policy, role-based and otherwise: Three cautionary cases

Politics ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 026339572094522
Author(s):  
David M McCourt
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Role Based ◽  
International Role

Foreign policy role theorists have recently placed domestic role contestation central to their accounts of foreign policy continuity and change. Yet, contestation over national role conceptions is only one aspect of domestic competition over political power that can impact the roles states play in world politics. Frequently, foreign policies are an outgrowth of political struggle over matters only indirectly related to a state’s international role. In this article, I draw role theorists’ attention to cases where non-role-based political competition affects role performance, urging them to trace empirically the connections between role contestation, non-role-based political competition with role implications, and role performance. To make this case, I develop three plausibility probes: America’s embrace of the hegemon role after 1945, Britain’s 2016 Brexit vote, and the United States’ recent turn towards a more transactional foreign policy. Highlighting non-role political competition with role implications offers a productive challenge that promises to enrich role theory in foreign policy analysis (FPA) by bringing it a step closer to domestic political competition.

scholarly journals Correlates of Role Enactment among the Academic Chairpersons of Selected Institutions in Bukidnon

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalevie C. Lubos
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Resource Development ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Department Chairpersons ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Role Enactment ◽  
Role Conception

The chairpersons’ role and approaches to conflict management, strategies in communication and techniques in program implementation are enacted by the department Chairpersons. The study aimed to investigate the correlates of role performance of the chairpersons as perceived by the role incumbent and role partners. The study used the descriptive design involving the incumbent deans, department chairpersons and faculty members of the HEIs. The study utilized the non-probability sampling design .The mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation were used. Results showed that the level of role conception of academic chairpersons within the same range as that of the role enactment as perceived by the deans and their role partners (faculty). The approaches to conflict management, strategies in communication and techniques in program implementation are correlates of administrative role, leadership role, interpersonal role, resource development role, role enactment of academic chairpersons. The study concludes that the chairpersons’ level of role conception in their administrative roles, leadership roles, interpersonal roles and resource development roles is congruent with their perceived role enactment as assessed by the deans and faculty. The extent chairpersons used approaches to conflict management, strategies to communication and techniques in program implementation determines the adequacy of role enactment of academic chairpersons as they perform. Keywords - Education, role performance, higher education, correlates, descriptive design, Philippines

A comparison of professional versus citizen journalistic roles: Views from visual journalists

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-226
Author(s):  
Deborah S Chung ◽  
Yung Soo Kim ◽  
Seungahn Nah
Keyword(s):  
Professional Role ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Role Conceptions

Using a Web-based survey targeting visual professionals, this study examines their professional role conceptions along with their views on emerging visual citizen contributors’ roles. While participants’ ratings of the two groups’ roles were generally correlated within each group, no correlations resulted between the two groups with the exception of the civic roles. Further, visual professionals rated their roles as significantly more important for all five roles. When assessing views on citizen-contributed visuals, it was clear that participants evaluated them with a critical eye, expressing dislike toward citizens’ visual contributions and deeming them a threat to their livelihood.

scholarly journals Professional Role Performance in Journalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(28)) ◽  
pp. 140-144
Author(s):  
Claudia Mellado ◽  
Michał Kuś
Keyword(s):  
Professional Role ◽  
Role Performance

The influence of journalistic role performance on objective reporting: A comparative study of Chilean, Mexican, and Spanish news

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-272
Author(s):  
Claudia Mellado ◽  
María Luisa Humanes ◽  
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Media Systems

Most comparative research on journalistic objectivity, and particularly the relation between objectivity and professional roles, has been carried out in the context of Western media systems and from the perspective of journalists’ role conceptions. However, the relation between role performance and the implementation of the objectivity norm remains unsolved, especially in countries with no clear-cut journalistic tradition of objectivity. Based on a content analysis of news stories published in Chile, Mexico, and Spain (N = 7,868), this study examines (1) the use of four objective reporting methods in newspapers from Spain, Mexico, and Chile, and (2) the influence of the performance of six journalistic roles in those methods. The results show that the materialization of objectivity varies across journalistic cultures, revealing also a significant influence of the performance of professional roles on the implementation of objectivity in news. The study sheds some light on the implication of these results in countries expected to display similar traits due to their historical and cultural affinities but which show very distinctive patterns.

Variations on a Theme: The Professional Role Conceptions of Print and Online Newspaper Journalists

2005 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Professional Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Variations On A Theme ◽  
Online Group

A national survey (N=655) examining the professional role conceptions of print and online newspaper journalists revealed the print group perceived the Interpretive/Investigative role as significantly more important than the online group. No significant differences were found between the groups in their perceptions of the Adversarial and Populist Mobilizer roles. Results were mixed for the Disseminator role. The online group rated getting information to the public as quickly as possible as significantly more important than the print group. William P. Cassidy is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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