When facts, truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

Zelizer, Barbie

doi:10.1080/1479142042000180953

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“…Facts, truth, and reality are considered to be the 'god terms' in journalism by Zelizer (2004). The process of verification is considered to be one of the most important aspects setting apart journalism from other forms of communication, and social media poses a challenge for verification.…”

Section: Trust In Social Mediamentioning

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Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Heravi

Harrower

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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Twitter has been widely adopted into journalistic workflows, as it provides instant and widespread access to a plethora of content about breaking news events, while also serving to disseminate reporting on those events. The content on Twitter, however, poses several challenges for journalists, as it arrives unfiltered, full of noise, and at an alarming velocity. Building on the results of the first national survey of social media use in Irish newsrooms, this paper investigates the adoption of social media into journalistic workflows, journalists' attitudes towards various aspects of social media, and the content and perspectives generated by these online communities. It particularly investigates how Twitter shapes the processes of sourcing and verification in newsrooms, and assesses how notions of trust factor into the adoption of the Twitter platform and content into these processes. The paper further analyses relationships between journalist profile and adopted practices and attitudes, and seeks to understand how Twitter operates in the current journalistic landscape. While this paper draws its data from a survey of journalists in Ireland, the analysis of the relationship between trust, sourcing, and verification reveals broader patterns about journalistic values, and how these values and practices may operate in the field of journalism as a whole. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Trust In Social Mediamentioning

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Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Heravi

Harrower

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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“…The familiar and widespread allergic response towards cultural studies (or any other theory) by professional journalism educators has had a negative effect on the academic advancement of the field (Zelizer, 2004), but at the same time journalism courses in universities are increasingly popular as skills-based information management and writing programmes, whose graduates may have no ambition to work in professional newsroom practice. Future research in the field might want to investigate the extension of journalistic capabilities into popular culture (and vice versa) via such training schemes, along with impact of anti-expert DIY formats from blogs to YouTube.…”

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“The Supremacy of Ignorance Over Instruction and of Numbers Over Knowledge”

Hartley¹

2008

Journalism Studies

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“…Media scholars, especially those who occupy themselves with the study and teaching of journalism, often attest to the difficulties in bridging the gap between academy and praxis (cf. Tomaselli & Caldwell, 2002;Zelizer, 2004aZelizer, , 2004b. In the case of this study, all interviewees were told from the start that the focus of the study was specifically on the critique levelled against foreign coverage and the ways in which foreign correspondents both carry out their practice and how they frame stories.…”

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Awareness towards Peace Journalism among Foreign Correspondents in Africa

Rodny‐Gumede

2016

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Much has been said about the news media's role in instigating war, conflict and violence. Less attention has been paid to the news media's role in mitigating conflict. Criticism has been directed towards the ways in which journalists and war correspondents cover conflict with an emphasis on violence, suffering, polarization of the views of main stakeholders, and over-simplification of the underlying causes of conflict. The growing literature and scholarship around Peace Journalism stands as a response to this. In the context of the African continent, further critique has been levelled against frames and narratives of war, conflict and violence grounded in Western epistemologies and dominant discourses of African conflicts and stakeholders. Based on data collected from interviews with a selected group of journalists working on-and covering-the African continent, the article assesses awareness towards alternative narratives and news frames, as well as attitudes towards alternative practices and models for journalism. Particular attention is paid to ideas and responses regarding Peace Journalism as an alternative model for reporting.

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When facts, truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

Cited by 176 publications

References 37 publications

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

“The Supremacy of Ignorance Over Instruction and of Numbers Over Knowledge”

Awareness towards Peace Journalism among Foreign Correspondents in Africa

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When facts, truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

Cited by 176 publications

References 37 publications

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media*

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media*

“The Supremacy of Ignorance Over Instruction and of Numbers Over Knowledge”

Awareness towards Peace Journalism among Foreign Correspondents in Africa

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Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*