Dinosaurs and butterflies — media practice research in new media ecologies

Dovey, Jonathan

doi:10.1386/jmpr.9.3.243_1

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“…In the theoretical framework of communication ecology, communication is envisioned as occurring in an environment that is codependent on numerous microecologies of journalism, public relations, advocacy organizations, businesses, government entities, and audiences (Dovey, 2008;Scolari, 2012;Tracy, 2012). Journalism often considers itself to be in a central, if vulnerable, position as an intermediary within the ecosystem (Perreault & Perreault, 2021).…”

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Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports

Nölleke

Perreault

2023

Communication & Sport

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As journalism has suffered financial and institutional setbacks globally, this has given rise to so-called peripheral actors in numerous subfields of journalism. In sports journalism, this is reflected by team media. Professionals in this arena would seem to be doing very similar work to that of journalists, thereby shifting long-established power structures in the sports/media complex. However, while team media may pose an existential threat to traditional sports reporting there is also reason to believe that they still depend on healthy sports journalism. Through the lens of communication ecology and based on interviews with team media reporters ( n = 28) in Austria and the United States, this study explores how team media actually view their relation to traditional sports journalism. We found that team media reporters rejected the implication that they were somehow to blame for sports journalism’s weakened state in the sports media ecosystem. Instead, they perceived their roles as complementary and were deeply troubled by sports journalism’s weakened standing within the ecology.

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Section: Communication Ecologymentioning

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Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports

Nölleke

Perreault

2023

Communication & Sport

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“…“Journalism ecology” has been used loosely to refer to the overall array of types of journalism, each type contributing something to the overall media environment (Dovey, 2008; Scolari, 2012; Tracy, 2012). Similar discourse refers to the news market (Mullainathan and Shleifer, 2005) or journalism marketplace (Pavlik, 2013) to convey differentiation within journalism.…”

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Metajournalistic discourse on the rise of gaming journalism

Perreault

Vos

2019

New Media & Society

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Gaming journalism, which finds its origins in public relations-oriented gaming magazines, discursively attached itself to traditional journalism in the wake of the 2014 GamerGate controversy. Yet it had remained unclear where gaming journalism fits within the ecology of journalism. This study examines metajournalistic discourse regarding gaming journalism from 2010 to 2018 and analyzes 53 articles about gaming journalism from that period in order to understand how the broader journalistic field conceptualized gaming journalism’s place within it. This study argues that gaming journalism is discursively marked as a lower, marginal form of journalism based on perceived differences in professional values and journalistic savviness.

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“…The study of digital media is no exception to this as there is an opportunity to incorporate an even greater emphasis on Critical Theory in political economic analysis (Fuchs, 2009). This can help avoid research from becoming too celebratory, an issue that Dovey (2008) observes in other disciplines. "We have an obligation to avoid the tendency in the rhetorics and excitements of new media that assume that we somehow live in a post scarcity world where capital, technology and software are somehow infinitely available" (Dovey, 2008: 251).…”

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“…This study takes up Dovey (2008) and Fuchs' (2009) call for critical research on digital media, through an examination of the relationship between entrepreneurs in the Ryerson Digital Media Zone and the broad social structures and institutions that affect them. Specifically, I am exploring the capitalist process of commodification, drawing on the concept of customer value and applying it to entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, which will be explained shortly.…”

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How digital media entrepreneurs talk and think about value creation: a study of commodification

Hofmann¹

2021

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Recent scholarship in the discipline of the political economy of communications, specifically on the topic of digital media, has called for further incorporation of theory from other fields. This study takes up this line of reasoning and contributes to the literature by incorporating the concept of customer value from marketing studies and the concept of opportunity recognition from entrepreneurial studies to examine the process of commodification. Drawing upon the customer value framework devised by Brock Smith and Mark Colgate, this study employs qualitative research to examine how entrepreneurs at the Ryerson Digital Media Zone talk about value. The results of this study demonstrate that the digital media entrepreneurs interviewed do in fact favour certain values over others lending credence to entrepreneurial studies theory that opportunity recognition is a result of specific cognitive frameworks and political economy theory that social and institutional policy and practices impact on media content and behaviour.

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Dinosaurs and butterflies — media practice research in new media ecologies

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports

Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports

Metajournalistic discourse on the rise of gaming journalism

How digital media entrepreneurs talk and think about value creation: a study of commodification

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