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Studiare le culture della produzione
No full textUn'introduzione ai principali metodi e alle più importanti scuole teoriche che hanno affrontato i temi della produzione e delle industrie mediali: sociologia, critical economy, media production studies
Participation in the hybrid political newsmaking and its consequences on journalism epistemology
No full textThe contemporary hybrid media system has certainly enriched as well as entangled the forms of political participation. Among the wide array of participatory practices, this essay considers spe- ci cally those aimed at creating, gathering, spreading and verifying information. It discusses new participatory practices in the process of newsmaking. In the more inclusive contemporary cycles of political information, multiple new media actors, emerging elites and non-elites, can produce news and news outlets which can become “spreadable” in the older and newer media, creating hype around an issue and often in uencing journalists’ agendas. Moreover, newer media actors can participate in the circulation of news by endorsing and contesting news items produced by professional and amateur, top-down and bottom-up, mainstream and alternative news media. This article discusses, summarizes and lists those participatory practices; it then analyses them closely in terms of journalism epistemology. Although issues related to epistemology are overwhelmingly important in journalism, particularly in the contemporary hybrid media system, they have been largely neglected in journalism studies. Epistemology in journalism is to be understood as the cri- terion of validity that enables journalists to distinguish the false from the true, the probable from the actual. The legitimacy of journalism is intimately bound up with claims of knowledge and truth. Hanitzsch (2007) identi es two dimensions of journalism epistemology: the objectivism/ subjectivism and the empiricism/analytical approaches. This essay explores theoretically whether and how new forms of creating, gathering, spreading and verifying information by non-elite me- dia actors and newer media elites can modify journalists’ epistemology. The journalists’ attitude to reality is producing contradictory results: it includes new elites in the newsmaking process as well as favoring the diffusion of misinformation
Dietro lo schermo, dentro la scatola. Radici e prospettive della ricerca sulla produzione e distribuzione televisiva in Italia
No full textUna ricostruzione delle radici storiche, degli approcci e delle prospettive di ricerca sulla produzione e sulla distribuzione televisiva in Italia
A Deliberative Democracy Framework for Analysing Trust in Journalists: An Application to Italy
Full text linkIn the current public sphere, the “deliberative model of democracy” may represent both the necessary benchmark and the best lens through which to view developments in the public debate. Democracy can never become really deliberative without the active participation of news media. The assumption of this article is that if news media are to disseminate knowledge, trust in them is crucial. This article examines an aspect neglected by studies on media trust: trust in journalists. It presents the results of a longitudinal survey
carried out in May and September 2020 in Italy, right at the end of the first mass Covid‐19 lockdown (Wave 1) and after the first pandemic summer (Wave 2), therefore a time when there was a great need for quality information. The main findings reveal that the use of social media decreases trust in journalists; furthermore, those who mainly rely on political institutions’ social media accounts for information place less trust in journalists than those who mainly rely on journalistic sources on those platforms. Instead, the use of traditional media (radio, television, newspapers) increases trust in journalists
Non-elitist truth? The epistemologies of Italian journalists in the hybrid media system
Full text linkEpistemology in journalism is the criterion of validity that enables journalists to distinguish the false from the true. Questioning how journalists depict reality is important especially in an age of economic and technological uncertainty. A new group of media actors involved in the news cycles is increasingly able to "hack the attention economy"; non-elite actors by the algorithmic logics of platforms tend to be increasingly regarded as influential (if not authoritative) in journalists' decisions to transform facts into news. This study explores how in the various phases of newsmaking (i.e., discovering, gathering, spreading, and verifying news) non-elite actors are shaping journalists' everyday epistemology in the contemporary Italian hybrid media system. This study draws on an analysis of 147 semi-structured interviews conducted with Italian professional journalists from 2008 to 2020. The results of the analysis confirmed the most conventional view about Italian journalism, that is, that journalists present knowledge essentially by using elite actors' subjective reconstructions of reality. The integration of non-elite sources in the various stages of news production is due to an attitude of journalists aimed not so much at increasing pluralism as at producing news by providing evidence. The low level of journalists' reflexivity in the use of web platforms, while involving some non-elite actors, appears to favor platforms themselves and their requisites
Studiare la polarizzazione politica nello “shockdown mediale”
Full text linkIn this paper, we discuss implications that the lockdown experience had on goals, methodological approaches, and topics of interest of a longitudinal study that we are conducting on political opinion polarization among Italian citizens in the hybrid media system. We also present some of the data collected in the first wave of our survey, fielded in May 2020, after two months of media shock. We provide a preliminary snapshot of the "state" of polarization concerning some controversial issues about the protection of public health. Additionally, we discuss some relations between citizens’ "older" and "newer" media experiences during the lockdown and the likelihood of assuming extreme positions on these topics. Lastly, we address some analytical choices to be taken in the next stages of our study (“phase 2”)
The mediatization of politics in the hybrid media system. The case of Italian political journalism
No full textDespite the major changes that have occurred in the ecology of media, this article
considers mediatization to be still a concept valuable for grasping and interpreting
relations among political communication actors. This article analyses the use
of Twitter by politicians as evidenced by journalists’ accounts (and practices). In
particular, it focuses on journalistic uses of Twitter in the context of political current
affairs. This article investigates how and to what degree the use of social media
has changed journalists’ practices in gathering political news. Moreover, it analyses
how journalists describe politicians’ use of Twitter and how they reflexively conceive
whether adjustments by those politicians to the media logic exist. To this end, the
studies present results from 25 semi-structured interviews with Italian journalists
occupying prominent roles within the Italian news organizations most important in
terms of newspaper circulations and unique visitors to their websites. The research
proves that mediatization is still an important framework within which to interpret
practices in the new media environment
Twittare le news : giornalisti hard e testate soft : uno studio di caso di tre redazioni
No full textThis article consists in a case study analysing three Italian digital
newsrooms. The research investigates the ways in which editors in chief and newsrooms
use Twitter. The journalistic use of Twitter has been the object of a growing number of
researches in several national contexts. Their results are hardly generalizable and largely
context-dependent. This work observes the choices made by editors in chief concerning
their use of social media profiles both on the level of newsroom and from an individual
perspective. Following the literature, this analysis points to two theoretical lines: the level
of interaction towards Twitter followers and the distribution of soft or hard news. The empirical
investigation is based on semi-structured interviews with editors in chief and social
media managers as well as on the analysis of tweets produced by their Twitter accounts.
Results show that, in the flow everyday newsroom production, Twitter works prevalently as
a way to distribute contents. On the contrary, journalists’ individual profiles present legitimation
practices regarding both their personal brand and journalism itself
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