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Discussing the News - The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Discussing the News - The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a
participatory media environment - the administration (moderation)
of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in
comments below their articles. The author argues that it is
precisely because both roles are treated as peripheral and
undignified in newsrooms that they are so revealing, following the
maxim: to make sense of what professions are and where they are
heading, look at their boundaries and their dirty work. Based on a
three-year ethnographic study, it offers key insights about the
role of the media as democratic intermediaries in political
participation, the creative possibilities for 'amateurs' as
co-producers of digital news, the changing character of the
knowledge professions and the dynamics of organisational
innovation. The book argues that as media organisations face a
crisis in their ability to represent the public, the challenge is
to orchestrate participatory journalism as a collective
accomplishment in which everyone is not a journalist but everyone
can be a contributor. Bridging the divides between communication
studies, linguistics, STS, organisational and occupational
sociology it will interest social scientists and media studies
experts.
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