与市民一起制作新闻!AMH集团的受众参与和新闻制作实践

IF 1.1 3区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

African Journalism Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI:10.1080/23743670.2021.2011759

T. Tshabangu

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摘要

摘要：这项基于制作的民族志研究调查了津巴布韦阿尔法媒体控股集团的公民参与和新闻制作实践。重点是普通公民参与以前封闭的新闻流程，以及他们在专业新闻媒体的日常新闻制作实践。本研究立足于公民参与和新闻制作实践的概念。数据是通过2018年的实地观察和访谈收集的。研究结果表明，AMH集团的公民参与新闻制作过程是由数字技术和组织政策促成的。然而，有几个背景因素，如性别化的数字鸿沟，限制了公民参与新闻业的潜力。公民参与对AMH集团来说很方便，因为它利用了公民记者在报道超地方新闻和众包新闻材料方面的免费劳动力，从而降低了雇佣记者和维护分社办公室的财务成本。AMH集团从传统的以受众为中心的新闻制作实践转向了依靠数字技术，通过结构化、非结构化、混合和数字实践将普通公民置于新闻制作的中心。这是对当代新闻研究中关于公民参与和数字新闻制作实践的辩论的去西方化贡献。

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Making News with the Citizens! Audience Participation and News-making Practices at the AMH Group

ABSTRACT This production-based ethnographic study investigates citizen participation and news-making practices at the Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) group in Zimbabwe. The focus is on the participation of ordinary citizens in previously closed journalistic processes and their everyday news-making practices at a professional news outlet. The study is anchored on the concepts of citizen participation and news-making practices. Data were collected through field observations and interviews in 2018. The findings reveal that citizen participation in news production processes at the AMH group was enabled by digital technologies and organisational policies. However, there were several contextual factors, such as the gendered digital divide, that limited the potential for citizen participation in journalism. Citizen participation was convenient for the AMH group because it tapped into the free labour of citizen journalists in reporting hyperlocal news and in crowdsourcing for news materials, thereby cutting financial costs of hiring correspondents and maintaining bureau offices. The AMH group shifted from traditional to audience-centric news-making practices that relied on digital technologies to put ordinary citizens at the centre of the news-making through structured, unstructured, hybrid and digital practices. This is a de-Westernised contribution to contemporary debates in journalism studies about citizen participation and digital news production practices.

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African Journalism Studies COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

10.00%

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期刊介绍： Accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training for university research purposes African Journalism Studies subscribes to the Code of Best Practice for Peer Reviewed Scholarly Journals of the Academy of Science of South Africa. African Journalism Studies ( AJS) aims to contribute to the ongoing extension of the theories, methodologies and empirical data to under-researched areas of knowledge production, through its emphasis on African journalism studies within a broader, comparative perspective of the Global South. AJS strives for theoretical diversity and methodological inclusivity, by developing theoretical approaches and making critical interventions in global scholarly debates. The journal''s comparative and interdisciplinary approach is informed by the related fields of cultural and media studies, communication studies, African studies, politics, and sociology. The field of journalism studies is understood broadly, as including the practices, norms, value systems, frameworks of representation, audiences, platforms, industries, theories and power relations that relate to the production, consumption and study of journalism. A wide definition of journalism is used, which extends beyond news and current affairs to include digital and social media, documentary film and narrative non-fiction.