Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2216811
Myiah J. Hutchens, E. Romanova, Brittany Shaughnessy
{"title":"The Good, the Bad, and the Evil Media: Influence of Online Comments on Media Trust","authors":"Myiah J. Hutchens, E. Romanova, Brittany Shaughnessy","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2216811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2216811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In two experiments, this manuscript examines the impact of uncivil news comments for both users and newsrooms. The first experiment varied the tone of the comments and determined that uncivil comments reduced media trust and outlet trust in comparison to civil comments. The second study examined the target of the comments and determined that uncivil comments targeting the author of the story decreased media trust, and uncivil comments targeting the outlet reduced trust in the specific media outlet. Neither the nature of the comments nor comment targets were related to use intentions. Implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1440 - 1457"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48237356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2246076
L. Jacobs, J. van Spanje
{"title":"Gatekeeping, News Values and Selection: Factors Determining the Newsworthiness of Hate Crimes","authors":"L. Jacobs, J. van Spanje","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2246076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2246076","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study addresses the question what makes hate crime incidents newsworthy and which factors are conducive to such incidents being reported on. Relying on news value theory, we identify criteria (cultural proximity, conflict) that explain why some hate crimes make the news and why others do not. We use a dataset of police-registered hate crimes in the Netherlands in 2017 (N = 3379). This is the entire population of hate crimes that the police reported in the whole country. This allows us to disentangle dynamics of the news selection process and identify bias. We find that both target group and type of hate crime affect the newsworthiness: hate crimes with victims targeted due to religious motives (Islamophobia, anti-Semitism) are more likely to be covered; hate crimes based on sexual orientation, gender and ethnicity are less likely to pass the gates. Hate crimes that are more conflictual in nature (i.e., violent hate crimes, vandalism) are more likely to be covered too. These selection effects likely have important effects on public awareness and political reactions.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1692 - 1710"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41356714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246075
S. Edgerly, Yingying Chen, Kjerstin Thorson, Taewoo Kang
{"title":"Everyone Has an Opinion and there are No Rules: How U.S. Journalists Articulate the Impact of Social Media on Journalism","authors":"S. Edgerly, Yingying Chen, Kjerstin Thorson, Taewoo Kang","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48168402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-11DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2246053
Seseer Mou-Danha, E. C. Crawford
{"title":"Understanding Audience Emotional Needs in Crisis Journalism: The Boston Globe’s Social Media Coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing","authors":"Seseer Mou-Danha, E. C. Crawford","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2246053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2246053","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the interaction between journalistic news posts and audience comments during a crisis, with attention to how various messaging approaches converged during the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing—the first major terrorist incident of the social media age. Using Taylor’s Six-Segment Message Strategy Wheel, this manuscript explores how journalists and commenters responded to informational and emotional needs communicated on social media. Both inductive and deductive content analysis evaluated comments and posts on The Boston Globe’s Facebook page during the one-year period post-bombing. The findings highlight that The Globe’s social media coverage centered on meeting emotional needs rather than just providing updates and breaking news. Posts integrating sensory and social content received more thoughtful audience engagement than those that focused on the facts, implying that there may be situations where readers are better served by crisis journalism that addresses informational and emotional needs.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1672 - 1691"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45274446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-11DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2230314
Kathryn Thier, K. Namkoong
{"title":"Identifying Major Components of Solutions-Oriented Journalism: A Review to Guide Future Research","authors":"Kathryn Thier, K. Namkoong","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2230314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2230314","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reviews the peer-reviewed literature about solutions journalism and constructive journalism to unpack their components, as such emerging solutions-oriented approaches gain steam in journalistic practice and scholarly examination. We find that solutions-oriented journalism differs from problem-oriented journalism in its qualities, frames, scope, purpose, orientation, boundaries, and journalists’ reporting processes. While solutions-oriented journalism prioritizes coverage of credible responses to social problems as a method for enhancing journalists’ social responsibility, tensions exist over the nature of those responsibilities, especially in different national contexts. Using the components we identified, we suggest future research clarify the individual-societal levels of solutions-oriented journalism effects, explore how it differs in various media contexts and political systems, and investigate how diverse audiences perceive and are served by solutions-oriented approaches.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1557 - 1574"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46296159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2241076
Diogo Lopes de Oliveira, B. Lewenstein
{"title":"Supporting Activism in Latin America: The Role of Science Communication, Science Journalism, and NGOs in Socio-environmental Conflicts","authors":"Diogo Lopes de Oliveira, B. Lewenstein","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2241076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2241076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42677045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241082
Dilina Nawararthne, Cristiano Storni
{"title":"Black-boxing Journalistic Chains, an Actor-network Theory Inquiry into Journalistic Truth","authors":"Dilina Nawararthne, Cristiano Storni","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241082","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Understanding journalistic truth has always been important in Journalism Studies, but it is increasingly significant in a society influenced by constantly evolving digital technologies and information disorder. This article explores the potential of “actor-network theory” to enhance the understanding of journalistic truth, surpassing the limitations of existing perspectives that categorise it as objective, subjective, or a combination of the two. Alternatively, through the utilisation of a plausibility probe case study in investigative journalism, the article suggests examining news-making as black-boxing and conceptualises journalistic truth as arising from the skilful construction of journalistic chains comprising heterogeneous actors. We discuss these as pivotal steps toward gaining a deeper understanding of journalistic truth that paves the way for constructing an alternative but empirical account of journalism.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1629 - 1650"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44926182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-29DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241074
Phoebe Maares, S. Banjac, Daniel Nölleke
{"title":"Newsrooms as Sites of Community and Identity: Exploring the Importance of Material Place for Journalistic Work","authors":"Phoebe Maares, S. Banjac, Daniel Nölleke","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent research has examined the sociomaterial contexts that shape journalistic practice within and beyond the newsroom, considering relationships between humans, and between humans and (non)physical artifacts like desks, computers, or software. While much of that research has focused on the use and role of technology, recent research also suggests an affective dimension of materiality like the sense of stability provided by physical news spaces. The newsroom as a material and lived place and place of power relations can greatly shape journalists’ work practices and identity. However, the relevance of the newsroom as a physical place for journalistic practice has so far been taken for granted. This study investigates the role of the newsroom as a physical, material place for journalistic practice and how it contributes to journalists’ sense of belonging and identity. Drawing on interviews with 18 Austrian journalists, we find that newsrooms as sociomaterial places facilitate proximity and serendipity which is perceived as relevant for creative and effective work, as well as a visible manifestation of in-group belonging. As such this study contributes to a better understanding of the meaning and relevance of newsrooms as material places for journalistic work.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1611 - 1628"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43268181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-29eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241086
Tali Aharoni, Eedan Amit-Danhi, Maximilian Overbeck, Christian Baden, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt
{"title":"\"You'd be Right to Indulge Some Skepticism\": Trust-building Strategies in Future-oriented News Discourse.","authors":"Tali Aharoni, Eedan Amit-Danhi, Maximilian Overbeck, Christian Baden, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241086","DOIUrl":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2241086","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores trust-building strategies in future-oriented news discourse, marked by a high degree of uncertainty. While current research mainly focuses on audiences' perceptions of news credibility, this study addresses news trust from a production standpoint. We examine the trust-building efforts of media actors, focusing on their discursive labor within the context of election projections. Drawing on rich data from five election rounds in Israel and the US, we qualitatively analyzed 400 news texts and 400 tweets that were produced by 20 US and 20 Israeli media actors. This textual analysis was supplemented by 10 in-depth interviews with Israeli journalists. Our findings demonstrate three types of journalistic trust-building rhetoric in election coverage: facticity, authority, and transparency. These strategies result in a two-fold form of trust, which re-affirms traditional notions of accuracy and validity, while also challenging the ability of newspersons to obtain them in contemporary political and media cultures. Overall, these strategies hold unique opportunities and challenges for sustaining public trust in journalism and illuminate the complex communicative labor involved in building trust with news audiences. Our findings also highlight the importance of studying trust not only in relation to the past and the present, but also in future-oriented discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1651-1671"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10478808/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43310061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalism StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2235428
Luise Anter
{"title":"How News Organizations Coordinate, Select, and Edit Content for Social Media Platforms: A Systematic Literature Review","authors":"Luise Anter","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2235428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2235428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46417816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}