{"title":"A decade of journalism and media studies from a practical and applied perspective","authors":"Leon Barkho, J. Lugo-Ocando","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00103_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00103_2","url":null,"abstract":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies celebrates a decade of disseminating original research that advances the understanding of journalism and media studies from a practical and applied perspective – not only for academics, but also to journalists, media practitioners, media owners and scholars. Our role continues to foster dialogue and exchange while underpinning academic collaboration and thus this edition brings together groundbreaking works from across different regions, providing a convergence point for both North and South dialogue and exchanges.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124947310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender equity in Lebanon’s news industry: The chasm between management’s perspectives and women journalists’ experience","authors":"Jad Melki","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00102_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00102_1","url":null,"abstract":"Senior management’s lack of knowledge and acknowledgement of gender injustice in journalism organizations has negative implications for the advancement of women journalists’ right to a hostile-free and equitable workplace. This study examines news leadership’s perceptions of gender inequity in the Lebanese news industry. The qualitative study relied on a focus group with sixteen senior Lebanese news managers from major journalism institutions in the country. It found the perceptions of most news managers to be inconsistent with extant research that has documented the hostile gendered work environment in the Lebanese news industry. Many of the issues that women journalists in Lebanon face, including gender discrimination, glass ceiling effects, pay inequity and sexual harassment, were neither acknowledged nor sufficiently addressed in the policies and practices of these organizations, partly due to this lack of awareness about women’s status in the industry and society.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117154833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Material Media-Making in the Digital Age","authors":"Wafa Khalfan","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00101_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00101_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Material Media-Making in the Digital Age, Daniel Binns (2021)\u0000 Bristol: Intellect Books, 194 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-78938-349-2, h/bk, GBP 80","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127575900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The first to report wins’: The McDonaldization of digital journalism in Turkey","authors":"Muhammet Emin Çifçi, Bunyamin Ayhan","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00100_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00100_1","url":null,"abstract":"Ritzer’s McDonaldization theory is based on the idea that the business model of the McDonald’s has exceeded the context of restaurants and reached almost all aspects of social life. The presence of McDonaldization is still felt in many different business lines around the world. In this study, it is aimed to discuss whether the traces of McDonaldization are seen in digital journalism in Turkey. Within the scope of the study, which is exploratory rather than generalizing, semi-structured interviews were conducted with news editors from Turkey’s top three most visited news websites, according to SimilarWeb’s November 2019 data. The data obtained were subjected to thematic analysis. Accordingly, in digital journalism in Turkey, there are traces of efficiency, calculability, predictability, control and irrationality of rationality which constitute the dimensions of McDonaldization. It has been emphasized that the McDonaldization theory has the potential to explain the problems of digital journalism in Turkey, such as the decrease in the quality of news, the standardization of news websites and the alienation of news editors from their own products.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"399 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115609879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social media framing of the 2022 ‘War in Ukraine’: A content analysis study of the Canadian prime minister’s tweets","authors":"F. Jaber","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00099_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00099_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article scrutinizes the frames that are deployed by the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau about the Russia–Ukraine event and the actors who are involved in this event. Accordingly, the corpus consists of 108 English text-only original tweets retrieved from the Twitter account of Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) between 23 February and 30 April 2022. This timeframe covers the beginning and the early stages of the Russia–Ukraine event that has captured the attention of mainstream and social media. Qualitative content analysis is conducted on the selected tweets, guided by framing theory and critical discourse analysis. The findings reveal that Trudeau utilized different frames to label and portray the current event. He also used ‘authoritarian’ frames to depict Russia and pro-Russia actors as outgroup members, who are directly responsible and should be held accountable for their actions, whereas ‘freedom’ frames are employed to represent Ukraine and pro-Ukraine actors as ingroup members, who have common values with Canada and need all kinds of support and assistance.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122150439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TV Culture: The Demise of the Elite and the Rise of the Popular, Abdullah Al Ghathami (2007)","authors":"A. Azzi","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00098_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00098_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: TV Culture: The Demise of the Elite and the Rise of the Popular, Abdullah Al Ghathami (2007)","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129231322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulation, control and digital transition of Ntv Online in Bangladesh television business","authors":"Ameena Islam, Md Azalanshah Md Syed","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00097_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00097_1","url":null,"abstract":"Audiences’ shifts to online and interactive engagement have posed numerous challenges to Bangladesh’s media ecology. This descriptive case study examines the current state of digital transition, complexities and competitions faced by the local television industry by putting Ntv Online, one of the first-generation television station’s online portals and convergence pioneers, at the centre of the discussion. It explains how Ntv Online is internalizing and responding to convergence practice from both media market dynamics and organizational perspectives. This study believes that issues other than those raised by media technology are equally important in comprehending the digital transition of Bangladesh’s television industry. The key findings indicate that the hybrid regime’s intervention in free media practices as well as complex market competition from massive tech platforms limit Bangladesh’s trajectory as a competitor in the global digital media arcade. This also implies that existing ownership and corporate structures may not support the required interoperability between management and journalists. However, the digital transitions of the private TV industry may pave the way for the creation of a democratic space for public deliberation, which is essentially demanded in the current hybrid regime’s intervention in actualizing this shift.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The path to applied journalism and media studies","authors":"Leon Barkho, J. Lugo-Ocando","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00095_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00095_2","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial note provides a short overview of the journal as it ushers in its second decade of publishing. It highlights the remaining gaps in the literature of praxis-based studies in the realm of journalism and media research and what needs to be done to address these. It lays down the theoretical and praxis-based foundations for the journal and a road map for the future type of submissions the journal encourages as it celebrates its inclusion in Q2 of the ‘Communication’ category on Scopus and commences its second decade of publishing. The note calls for a shift of focus to the top of journalistic and media practice and identifies the areas in which more research is needed within the realm of praxis-based theory and methodology. It concludes with a set of research questions for future submissions in line with the journal’s thrust and interrelated dimensions.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115777267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the B-Metro’s production of child abuse reportage: A hierarchy of influences perspective","authors":"Khulekani Ndlovu","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00085_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00085_1","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the hierarchy of influences perspective as analytical lens, this article examines the macro-, meso- and micro-level dynamics that attend the B-Metro’s mediation of child abuse in Zimbabwe. In-depth interviews with B-Metro staff revealed that journalists’ identities, professional ideologies, political meddling, resourcing challenges and a gendered newsroom culture shape the news discourse. Additionally, strategic considerations about the credibility of the news report and the economics of news gathering have led to an overreliance on court sources. Consequently, the reportage is dominated by a legal narrative that eschews meaningful interrogation of the structural conditions that engender child abuse. Findings also reveal that journalists denounce patriarchal violence but espouse its normative ideologies. Ambivalence characterizes journalists’ convictions and actions as they are torn between commercial and public interest imperatives, compassion fatigue and the ethic of care.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126176582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explaining international media development: Building blocks for an analytical framework based on institutional logics","authors":"I. Drefs","doi":"10.1386/ajms_00088_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00088_1","url":null,"abstract":"The academic study of media development as a field of practice and international cooperation has received quite some impetus in the last couple of years. Theory-building in this research field, however, seems to be stagnating. The explanatory power of established theories such as modernization, dependency or participation appears limited in the light of recent empirical findings that point to increasing ‘bureaucratization’ and ‘proceduralization’ in the media development sector. Against this background, this article sets out to find an analytical model that adequately grasps the logics guiding the work of media development’s various actors – from donors to intermediary organizations to local NGOs. Theoretical input from organizational institutionalism seems to offer a promising perspective for characterizing the institutional logics that shape (yet do not determine) media development practice. On this basis, the article proposes an analytical framework that allows to categorize media development actors’ beliefs and practices between the poles of social transformation logics and managerial logics.","PeriodicalId":125587,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127216436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}