Mass Communication Is More Than A One-Way Street: On the Persistent Function and Relevance of Journalism

Fürst, Silke; Schönhagen, Philomen; Bosshart, Stefan

doi:10.1080/13183222.2015.1091621

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“…At the same time we see an increasing social pressure on organisations to legitimate themselves. What is interesting is that this process of adaptation is theorised in the mediated social communication (MSC) approach (Fürst, Schönhagen & Bosshart, 2015). Wagner (1980) conceptualises the development of communication in society, on the basis of work by Riepl (1913) and Knies (1857Knies ( /1996; see also Hardt, 2001, pp.…”

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The co-evolution of public relations and journalism: A first contribution to its systematic review

Schönhagen

Meißner

2016

Public Relations Review

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The co-evolution of public relations and journalism: A first contribution to its systematic review

Schönhagen

Meißner

2016

Public Relations Review

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“…At the same time, vital intertextuality between social and mass media could offer numerous advantages from the point of view of journalists' daily work. Based on our research review (e.g., Fürst et al 2015: 329 and its references), we argue that this potential is not yet fully exploited, although this conclusion might partly derive from methodological deficiencies in identifying and conceptualizing these novel practices.…”

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Media and quoting

Haapanen¹,

Perrin²

2017

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media

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Direct quoting is a distinctive and essential phenomenon in the media. Albeit, how it materializes varies according to the medium in which it occurs. In television and radio, the statements drawn from interviews are embedded as sound bites into a media item, whereas in print publications selected quotes-to-be are rendered as quotations. The Internet has allowed for the transgression of this traditional dichotomy, since written items can be published there without concrete printing-and mixed and blended with audio and audiovisual items without traditional broadcasting. With the emergence of Internet 2.0 and, mainly, social media, the concept of quoting has further evolved. With social media platforms, it is easy to share links to media items published all over the web. Posting links can be considered a (new) kind of quoting in itself because a) some links quote extracts from source text, and b) following the link results in a full quotation of the source text in a new browser window-which then must be processed in the context of the text containing the link. Furthermore, these links are often accompanied by extensions such as comments on and quotes from the linked text. Based on these different dimensions of intertextuality, we define quote and related key terms in the next section of this chapter. In Section 3, we outline the main scholarly perspectives on quoting. Taking clues from journalism, in Section 4, we present the current state of the research explaining the structure of quotes (4.1), the functions of quotes (4.2), and the process of quoting (4.3). In Section 5, we focus on critical issues involved in the investigation of quotes and quoting, and in Section 6, we outline future directions of research by foregrounding the phenomenon of socio-quoting. We conclude by briefly characterising quotes and quoting overall in Section 7. 2 DEFINITIONS The term media is seen by many scholars as a generic term used to identify the technical means (such as print, radio, television, or the Internet) by which semiotic entities are communicated to others (see Ehrensperger, Perrin & Zampa, this volume, Chapter IV.4). In light of this characterization, the concept of intertextuality becomes fundamental: In journalistic media, and especially in modern days, the role of intertextuality is emphasized, since such media tell us as much about what someone has said has happened as about what has actually happened (Bell 1991: 52-53; Nylund 2009: 7). In this chapter, we focus on a distinctive type of intertextuality called direct quotes (hereafter referred to simply as quotes), which includes both written quotes and (spoken) sound bite quotes. Quotes are generally easily identifiable by their formal markings. The most unequivocal way to identify a quote in a media environment is in the written media where quotes are distinguished from the surrounding

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“…The Mediated Social Communication MSC approach 3 is based on the idea that in modern societies, socially relevant topics are publicly discussed by societal groups that disagree or are in competition with one another (e.g. Berger and Luckmann 1991;Fürst, Schönhagen, and Bosshart 2015) and that the established mass media are the stakeholders that provide a venue for this public negotiation. In this light, mass media combine two processes: the communication process between different actors in society on the one hand, and the mediation of this communication by journalists via mass media on the other.…”

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“…In the MSC approach, the traditional journalistic rule of objectivity is manifested in a concept of journalistic impartiality that relies on four central rules (Schönhagen 2002, 39;see also 1998;Fürst, Schönhagen, and Bosshart 2015): journalists 1) grant equal consideration to different stances, not necessarily within a single news item but in the longer term; 2) keep news separate from journalistic commentary; 3) attribute primary sources transparently; and 4) report statements faithfully in accordance with their original meaning, even if they are subjected to editing for reasons of intelligibility, space restrictions, etc. "[T]he claim for journalistic objectivity is (...) rather a claim for impartial reporting of the different points of view, the different interpretations of reality, and the different truths apparent in society.…”

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“…The MSC approach, still relatively unrecognised outside the German-speaking academic world, was developed by German scholars like Otto Groth, Bernd Maria Aswerus, and Hans Wagner during the twentieth century, and is based on even earlier contributions; for example, by Albert Schäffle (seeFürst et al 2015; Schönhagen, and Fürst in press). As regards this article, I am especially grateful to Professor Philomen Schönhagen for sharing her expertise on the MSC approach in personal communication and in comments on the different stages of the manuscript.…”

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Modelling Quoting in Newswriting: A Framework for Studies on the Production of News

Haapanen

2019

Journalism Practice

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A framework for studies on the production of newsThe Mediated Social Communication (MSC) approach considers mass media a venue for opposing and complementary societal groups to publicly negotiate socially relevant topics. This negotiation is conducted through representatives of these groups and mediated by journalists. Inspired by the MSC approach, this paper presents an empirically grounded model that structures the mediating process through the process of quoting. By identifying the key phases of newswriting as sub-processes of quoting, the paper argues that journalists (1) decide on a topical issue to be addressed (topicalisation), ( 2) identify groups of people who are linked to this issue (societal localisation), (3) pick some people as representatives of these societal groups (personalisation), and ( 4) verbalise these people's points of view, often by means of quoting, inter alia (verbalisation). The four-phase model is then operationalised into a data collection method that facilitates access to and fosters new insights into the subtle dynamics of newswriting. Hitherto, these dynamics have often remained obscure, because the craft ethos is adopted as tacit knowledge through implicit socialisation and is therefore difficult for journalists to verbalise. The paper concludes by calling for reconsideration of journalists' role as gatekeepers who decide which issues and voices are heard in public discourse.

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Mass Communication Is More Than A One-Way Street: On the Persistent Function and Relevance of Journalism

Cited by 8 publications

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The co-evolution of public relations and journalism: A first contribution to its systematic review

The co-evolution of public relations and journalism: A first contribution to its systematic review

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Modelling Quoting in Newswriting: A Framework for Studies on the Production of News

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