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Discussing the news : the uneasy alliance of participatory journalists and the critical public / Simon Smith.

Smith, Simon (Writer on journalism), author.
2017
PN4731
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Title
Discussing the news : the uneasy alliance of participatory journalists and the critical public / Simon Smith.
Author
Smith, Simon (Writer on journalism), author.
ISBN
9783319529653 (electronic book)
331952965X (electronic book)
9783319529646
3319529641
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52965-3
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave MacMillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 151 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-52965-3 doi
Call Number
PN4731
Dewey Decimal Classification
070.4
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in science, knowledge, and policy.
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1. Introduction
Notes
References
2. Participatory journalism as a way of knowing
A pragmatic approach to the study of participatory journalism
Routines and artefacts
Argumentation
Competences
Notes
References
3. Contextualising the research setting
The profession of journalism in Slovakia
Participation and commenting at case study 1
SME
Participation and commenting at case study 2
Denńik N
A journalism of opinion or communication?
Notes
References
4. Judging the quality of online discussion : the invisible work of 'admins'
The constraining and enabling effects of routines
Who does the job? : defining the right bundle of tasks
The pioneers
The blogger admins
The web-editor admins
What tools are used? : designing the right interface
The system of alerts
Reputation control
Partial automation of the admin routine
What roles are performed? : admins' justificatory vocabulary
Six registers of justification
Classification (and the production of decisions)
Classificatory contextualisation (and the production of rules)
Qualification (and the production of evidence)
Metaclassification (and the production of order)
Organisational representation (and the reproduction of values)
Inferential contextualisation (and the production of room for manoeuvre)
Coping with professional status strain on the front-line
Notes
References
5. The conversations between participatory journalists and critical publics
The routines for organising and engaging in discussion
The discursive identity of the journalist as discussant
Examples of common accusation-response sequences
Setting off metajournalistic tongues
Notes
References
6. Defending the authenticity of online public spheres
Naming and accusing false discussants
User intuition as a reputation management routine
Admining as a quality control routine
Verification as a credential-checking routine
A new calculation space
Protecting online public spheres : zonal monitoring and mobile vigilance
Notes
References
7. Conclusions
The essential 'liveness' of routines
Venue-sensitive argumentative registers
An orchestrated distribution of competences
Notes
References
Index.

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