182 research outputs found
Social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation and is changing the way scholars disseminate their research, raising questions about the way we evaluate academic authority
No full textContinuing with our focus on the merits of social media for making academic impact, Alfred Hermida, award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator, argues that social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation, where participation and engagement are recognised and rewarded through dynamic social interactions
Tell everyone : why we share and why it matters
No full textTell Everyone: Why We Share and Why it Matters explores how social media is changing how traditional media works and how it is reshaping the worlds of business, politics and activism. It explains why we feel compelled to share news, gossip and information, and always have. In this groundbreaking work, online news pioneer Alfred Hermida examines how our ability to create and share news is shaping the information we receive and depend on to make informed decisions, from choosing politicians to doing business. Drawing on historical examples, real-world experiences and leading research, he equips us with the knowledge and insight to navigate successfully the social streams of information that shape how we view the world.Arts, Faculty ofJournalism, School ofUnreviewedFacult
How Social Media are Changing Journalism
No full textWebcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Continuing Studies' Lifelong Learning Series in partnership with the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. Liz Heron, Social Media Editor at The New York Times, Alfred Hermida, Associate Professor, UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Karen Pinchin, founding editor of OpenFile Vancouver, and Steve Pratt, Director of CBC Radio 3 and CBC Radio Digital Programming present a lively panel discussion. This is the first in a series of three free panel discussions of the Social Media, Journalism, and Politics Special Lecture Series at UBC Robson Square.Other UBCUnreviewedResearche
Oblique strategies for ambient journalism
No full textAlfred Hermida recently posited ‘ambient journalism’ as a new framework for para- and professional journalists, who use social networks like Twitter for story sources, and as a news delivery platform. Beginning with this framework, this article explores the following questions: How does Hermida define ‘ambient journalism’ and what is its significance? Are there alternative definitions? What lessons do current platforms provide for the design of future, real-time platforms that ‘ambient journalists’ might use? What lessons does the work of Brian Eno provide–the musician and producer who coined the term ‘ambient music’ over three decades ago?
My aim here is to formulate an alternative definition of ambient journalism that emphasises craft, skills acquisition, and the mental models of professional journalists, which are the foundations more generally for journalism practices. Rather than Hermida’s participatory media context I emphasise ‘institutional adaptiveness’: how journalists and newsrooms in media institutions rely on craft and skills, and how emerging platforms can augment these foundations, rather than replace them
The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism
No full textThe production and consumption of news in the digital era is blurring the boundaries between professionals, citizens and activists. Actors producing information are multiplying, but still media companies hold central position. Journalism research faces important challenges to capture, examine, and understand the current news environment. The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism starts from the pressing need for a thorough and bold debate to redefine the assumptions of research in the changing field of journalism. The 38 chapters, written by a team of global experts, are organised into four key areas:
Section A: Changing Contexts
Section B: News Practices in the Digital Era
Section C: Conceptualizations of Journalism
Section D: Research Strategies
By addressing both institutional and non-institutional news production and providing ample attention to the question ‘who is a journalist?’ and the changing practices of news audiences in the digital era, this Handbook shapes the field and defines the roadmap for the research challenges that scholars will face in the coming decades
Climate skepticism presence and changing climate journalism sourcing practices in the 2023 British Columbia wildfire coverage
No full textIn 2023, Canada experienced one of the worst wildfire seasons in its history, with over 16.5 million hectares of land being burnt. These record-breaking wildfires required evacuations, posed physical and mental health risks, and required multiple levels of government emergency response. As wildfires have become increasingly intense, scientists have come to the consensus that climate change is a factor which is contributing to the worsening of these fires through increased global temperatures, changing seasonal patterns, and increased droughts. Media coverage of the wildfires combined event-driven reporting and climate journalism. Climate journalism has been an area of rapid change in journalism studies. Climate journalism has been moving away from previous ideas of objectivity and bothsidesism, and instead moving towards a subjective stance where climate change is not treated as a subjective ideal, but is instead treated as an objective fact, changing the way that different voices in climate journalism are represented. Climate journalism aligns with journalistic sourcing practices as certain groups, such as government officials, receive high media representation, and other groups experience less representation. This research project explored how different sources are represented in the 2023 Canadian wildfire media coverage, using both quantitative and qualitative analysis. It investigated which sources were the most likely to assert a connection between climate change and wildfires, and to understand how reluctance and skepticism are represented. Findings suggest that skeptic voice presence in media is decreasing, and that event-driven crisis reporting platforms a microcosm of dominant government sources. The results advance an understanding of how science communication is represented by sources, and which sources contribute to shaping the current representation of climate change in the media during a crisis event.Arts, Faculty ofJournalism, Writing, and Media, School ofGraduat
Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies
Get PDFIn this article, we discuss the rise and use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies. Hybridity afforded a meaningful intervention in a discipline that had the tendency to focus on a stabilized and homogeneous understanding of the field. Nonetheless, we now need to reconsider its deployment, as it only partially allows us to address and understand the developments in journalism. We argue that if scholarship is to move forward in a productive manner, we need, rather than denote everything that is complex as hybrid, to develop new approaches to our object of study. Ultimately, this is an open invitation to the field to adopt experientialist, practice-based approaches that help us overcome the ultimately limited binary dualities that have long governed our theoretical and empirical work in the field
Citizenship in a Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda
No full textWhat does it mean to be a citizen in Canada in a digital context? What are the implications of this digital setting for citizens and policy making? Citizenship in a
Connected Canada brings together scholars, activists, and policy makers to examine what a connected society means for Canada. This foundational resource offers insight on the state of citizenship in a digital context in Canada and proposes a research and policy agenda for the way forward.● Preface — Elizabeth Dubois and Florian Martin-Bariteau ● Introduction: Citizenship in a Connected Canada — Elizabeth Dubois and Florian Martin-Bariteau ● ● PART I: Building an Inclusive Society in a Digital Context ● 1. Decolonizing Digital Spaces — Alexander Dirksen ● 2. Telling a Different Story: Canadian Citizens and Their Democracy in the Digital Age — Adelina Petit-Vouriot and Mike Morden ● 3. Framing the Challenges of Digital Inclusion for Young Canadians — Leslie Regan Shade, Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Priscilla Regan, and Valerie Steeves ● ● PART II: Building Democratic Institutions in a Digital Context ● 4. Government in the Connected Era — Kent Aitken ● 5. Data Governance: The Next Frontier of Digital Government Research and Practice — Amanda Clarke ● 6. The Conversation Canada: Not-for-Profit Journalism in a Time of Commercial Media Decline — Mary Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida ● 7. Influencing the Internet: Lobbyists and Interest Groups’ Impact on Digital Rights in Canada — Megan Beretta ● ● PART III: Rethinking Legal Frameworks for the Digital Context ● 8. Consumers First, Digital Citizenry Second: Through the Gateway of Standard-Form Contracts — Marina Pavlović ● 9. A Human Rights-Based Approach to Data Protection in Canada — Teresa Scassa ● 10. Making Sense of the Canadian Digital Tax Debate — Michael Geist ● 11. Online Abuse, Chilling Effects, and Human Rights — Jonathon W. Penney ● Conclusion : Next Steps for a Connected Canada — Elizabeth Dubois and Florian Martin-Bariteau ● Contributors ● Inde
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