The Blogging BBC

Hermida, Alfred

doi:10.1080/17512780902869082

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“…Several recent studies show that this may also apply to participatory journalism (García Avilés et al, 2009;Harrison, 2010;Hermida, 2009). It is nevertheless important that journalists perceive the new policy as a confirmation of what they consider necessary, rather than a challenge to their professionalism (Sylvie and Gade, 2009).…”

Section: The Internet's Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Printed Rise of the Common Man

Keyser¹,

Raeymaeckers²

2012

Journalism Studies

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Journalists have traditionally focused on a small range of elite sources. Far less attention went to ordinary or common people, resulting in little visibility for that community in news output. However, bottom-up Web 2.0 technologies have given common people new communication tools, allowing them to disperse information autonomously. This has made traditional news media aware of a public desire for bottom-up participation in the news production process. Accordingly, some news media have begun to offer their own participation features. Bearing this context in mind, we address the question whether Web 2.0 has helped increase the visibility and importance of the common people in daily news output. Via a content analysis of five Flemish newspapers, the current representation of ordinary citizens is compared to a decade ago, before the appearance Web 2.0. The analysis shows that citizens appear more prominently in the news nowadays.

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Section: The Internet's Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Printed Rise of the Common Man

Keyser¹,

Raeymaeckers²

2012

Journalism Studies

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“…So far most research have discussed and argued for transparency rather than investigating it empirically although there are some exceptions as Hermida (2009) and Lasorsa (2012) have studied journalist perspectives on transparency and Karlsson (2010) and Rupar (2006) have had their focus on content. All of these studies suggest incremental changes in norms and that the old normative regime still prevails.…”

Section: Previous Empirical Research On Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Karlsson¹,

Clerwall²,

Nord³

2014

Journalism Studies

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PreprintThis is the submitted version of a paper published in Journalism Studies. Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Karlsson, M., Clerwall, C., Nord, L. (2014) You ain´t seen nothing yet.: Transparency' s (lack of ) Effect on Source and Message Credibility. AbstractTransparency has been proposed to both change the way journalism is being produced and increase its credibility. However, little research has been conducted to assess the connection between transparency and credibility. This study utilizes an experimental setting (N=1320) to measure what impact transparency have on source and message credibility from the user perspective. The results reveals an almost absence of any transparency effect on both source and message credibility although some small significant effects could be observed primarily regarding internal hyperlinks, comments and contextual information. Although further research is desperately needed in this area the study suggest that transparency does not affect the credibility of journalism in the eyes of the contemporary audience and thus have limited appeal as a new norm in journalism.

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“…The international BBC news website is the chosen site of analysis due to its popularity and reputation for being objective, a reputation noted by a variety of academics (Salter 2010;Hermida 2009;Richardson and Barkho 2009). Its news services operate the world's widest-reaching international newsgathering network, reporting in 33 languages and claiming 230 million weekly users (BBC 2012a).…”

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Discourses on Somali Piracy

Way¹

2013

Journalism Practice

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Piracy off Somalia's coast has gained the imagination of the public and the attention of the media. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper considers stories about Somali piracy on the international BBC news website. A twin analysis is undertaken to determine how those involved in piracy and their actions are represented as well as how macro-discursive strategies of legitimation are employed. An historical contextualisation of Somalia and piracy complements the analysis. These analyses reveal how news stories do not focus on Somalis but on negative representations of pirates and positive representations of Western military powers. A number of linguistic strategies are identified that emphasise Western powers and articulate discourses that legitimate the continuing presence and actions of Western militaries. These discourses are drawn upon at the expense of discourses sympathetic to the plight of Somalis. These findings not only call into question the BBC's claims to objectivity, but also highlight the fact that stories do not promote conditions suitable for an end to piracy.

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The Blogging BBC

Cited by 48 publications

References 19 publications

The Printed Rise of the Common Man

The Printed Rise of the Common Man

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

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