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Journalism and the Culture of Othering
Full text linkIn seeking to render problematic traditional conceptions
of journalistic identity, this article critiques the seemingly natural, even ‘common sensical’ structures of social exclusion recurrently underpinning its formulation. More specifically, it explores, firstly, a series of insights provided by feminist and gender-sensitive critiques of journalism. In assessing the typically subtle imperatives of sexism in news reporting, it considers the extent to which journalistic identity continues to be defined within the day-to-day ‘macho culture’ of the
newsroom, where female journalists’ perceptions of sexual
discrimination typically vary sharply from those held by their male colleagues. Secondly, attention turns to the issue of ethnic diversity, where the need to deconstruct the racialised projection of ‘us and them’ dichotomies precisely as they are taken-up and re-inflected in news reporting is shown to be of pressing concern. In bringing together these respective set of debates, primarily from British and US contexts, this article aims to contribute to conceptual efforts to further unravel the ways in which journalists’ routine, everyday choices about what to report – how best to do it, and why –involves them in a politics of mediation, one where all too often a culture of othering proves significant
Mediating Citizenship: On-line journalism and the public sphere new voices
No full textStuart Allan identifies several pressing issues concerning on-line news of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. In assessing its form and content, special attention is devoted to the ‘citizen-produced coverage’ generated by ‘amateur’ or ‘personal’ journalists. He suggests that their eyewitness accounts and photographs called into question several key assumptions underlying the conventions of traditional news work. Accordingly, this article proposes that the day's on-line reporting marked a turning point in the ongoing reconfiguration of what counts as journalism in the global network society. Development (2003) 46, 30–40. doi:10.1177/1011637003046001570
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Online news audiences: the challenges of web metrics
No full textOnline audience tracking technologies create an unprecedented opportunity for the media to collect natural, real-time data on what users do, and do not do, with news products. These user metrics have begun to shape editorial decisions and development strategies in newsrooms around the world. This chapter reviews this industrial trend and the challenges that web metrics present to journalism. It argues that these challenges, if not calmly addressed, could deepen an already critical crisis – the dumbing down of news – and bring newsroom tensions and conflicts to a new height. Journalists need to foster a stronger professional culture that helps them to take confidence and pride in their autonomous news judgement and to resist, wherever necessary, the sentiment of the crowd
Citizen journalism is as old as journalism itself: An interview with Stuart Allan
Full text linkProfessor Stuart Allan from Cardiff University in the UK is one of the leading scholars
in contemporary journalism studies. He has made a significant contribution to the development
of this research field, having authored or edited seventeen books to date (many
of which have been translated into multiple languages), as well as a wide range of journal
articles and book chapters. He is a co-founder of the peer-reviewed journal Journalism
Education, and serves on the editorial board of ten journals, including Digital Journalism,
Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, and New Media & Society.
Although he is a man of many interests, Allan’s personal scholarship in journalism studies
revolves around four themes: 1) journalism and democracy, where his attention has
focused on the evolving role of the journalist in public life (Allan, 2010, 2012; Carter,
Branston, and Allan, 1998; Fowler-Watt and Allan, 2013); 2) online news, with a particular
interest in citizen journalism and what he terms citizen witnessing (Allan, 2006,
2013; Thorsen and Allan, 2014); 3) the changing nature of war, conflict and crisis reporting
(Allan and Zelizer, 2004; Matheson and Allan, 2009; Zelizer and Allan, 2013); and
4) science journalism, with a special interest in how it is evolving in digital contexts (Allan,
Adam and Carter, 2000; Allan, 2002; Anderson, Petersen, Wilkinson and Allan, 2009).
Further research interests include journalism and human rights, media history, photojournalism,
and young people’s civic engagement with digital media
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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