Digital media and the diversification of professionalism: A US–German comparison of journalism cultures

Revers, Matthias

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“…Research shows that journalists across Western Europe and North America regularly utilize social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter (Barnard, 2016; Jouët and Rieffel, 2015; Revers, 2016). But how and in what ways does use of these technologies vary as a result of the distinctive national settings in which they are used?…”

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“…On this view, social media provide a way for time- and cash-strapped journalists to monitor information, interact with audiences, and boost their personal and organizational profiles. Others expect technology use to vary as a result of distinctive and enduring national contexts in which they are deployed (Engesser and Humprecht, 2015; Hanusch, 2018; Revers, 2016). While the precise cross-national patterns remain underspecified, scholarship in this vein suggests professional, cultural, political, and economic factors shape journalists’ social media use.…”

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How journalists use social media in France and the United States: Analyzing technology use across journalistic fields

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Zambrano

2017

New Media & Society

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This article examines journalists’ use of social media in France and the United States. Through in-depth interviews, we show that shared practical sensibilities lead journalists in both countries to use social media to accomplish routine tasks (e.g. gather information, monitor sources, and develop story ideas). At the same time, we argue that the incorporation of social media into daily practice also creates opportunities for journalists to garner peer recognition and that these opportunities vary according to the distinctive national fields in which journalists are embedded. Where American journalism incentivizes individual journalists to orient social media use toward audiences, French journalism motivates news organizations to use social media for these purposes, while leaving individual journalists to focus primarily on engaging with their peers. We position these findings in relation to debates on the uses of technologies across national settings.

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How journalists use social media in France and the United States: Analyzing technology use across journalistic fields

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2017

New Media & Society

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“…39 For example, corresponding to the shift from print to online publishing, Hellmueller, Vos, and Poepsel (2012) show a move among journalists towards more transparency and objectivity (cf. Revers, 2016), and Hornmoen and Steensen (2014) a shift towards recognizing the importance of dialogue.…”

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Making the most of Twitter: How technological affordances influence Swedish journalists’ self-branding

Hedman

2017

Journalism

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Journalists are among the most frequent users of Twitter, and Twitter has become an important platform for personal branding. Social media logic promotes not only a chase for virality and impressive metrics but also a mix of professional, personal, and private content, as well as sharing, interaction, and dialogue. Focusing one aspect of social media logic, the aim of this study is to analyze how the technological affordances of Twitter shape journalists’ self-branding in their account presentations and whether there are differences between groups of journalists. The study draws on a quantitative content analysis of Swedish journalists’ Twitter presentations and account information (N = 2543). The findings suggest that Swedish journalists on Twitter brand themselves as being more audience oriented, networking, and individualistic, projecting a mixed identity including both professional and personal features, and that social media logic influence journalists’ self-branding.

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“…We hope that this trend continues across studies of media industries, especially when global forces or national differences are expected to be critical variables. For instance, while the media industries have been studied extensively in cross‐national comparison, the varied economic and cultural impact of digital technologies on media systems has not (see Benson et al ; Revers for exceptions). In the context of the growth of reflexivity in this era (Beck et al ), we see an increase of self‐examination and associated meta‐discourses across the media industries. Besides the fact that these discourses are interesting in their own terms, how do they consider and relate to the increasingly participatory user/audience environment and/or to the contemporary experience of intellectual life? How does the introduction and adoption of new media technologies affect established social hierarchies, especially along the sociologically critical dimensions of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class?…”

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The Field of American Media Sociology: Origins, Resurrection, and Consolidation

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2016

Sociology Compass

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This contribution is written against the backdrop of the historic dispersal of early American media sociology out from the core concerns of the discipline and into various importer academic disciplines (including communication, journalism, and media studies) and an ever‐growing pervasiveness of media in everyday life which is reflected by a resurgence of sociological scholarship in the United States since the early 2000s. The article divides the field in works that study media inwards – along the threefold dimensions of production and technologies, communication and discourse, reception and effects – and works that study media outwards. We argue that this latter perspective, examining broader theoretical, methodological, and substantive social implications of mass‐mediated communication, is the most promising one for a mature field of American media sociology. On this basis, we conclude with some suggestions regarding possible new, and as of yet understudied, lines of inquiry for future media sociologists.

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Digital media and the diversification of professionalism: A US–German comparison of journalism cultures

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

How journalists use social media in France and the United States: Analyzing technology use across journalistic fields

How journalists use social media in France and the United States: Analyzing technology use across journalistic fields

Making the most of Twitter: How technological affordances influence Swedish journalists’ self-branding

The Field of American Media Sociology: Origins, Resurrection, and Consolidation

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