Discussing the news : the uneasy alliance of participatory journalists and the critical public / Simon Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Simon (Writer on journalism), author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in science, knowledge, and policy

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave studies in science, knowledge and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--Social aspects.

Journalism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

1. Introduction

Notes

References

2. Participatory journalism as a way of knowing

A pragmatic approach to the study of participatory journalism

Routines and artefacts

Argumentation

Competences

3. Contextualising the research setting

The profession of journalism in Slovakia

Participation and commenting at case study 1

SME

Participation and commenting at case study 2

Denńik N

A journalism of opinion or communication?

4. Judging the quality of online discussion : the invisible work of 'admins'

The constraining and enabling effects of routines

Who does the job? : defining the right bundle of tasks

The pioneers

The blogger admins

The web-editor admins

What tools are used? : designing the right interface

The system of alerts

Reputation control

Partial automation of the admin routine

What roles are performed? : admins' justificatory vocabulary

Six registers of justification

Classification (and the production of decisions)

Classificatory contextualisation (and the production of rules)

Qualification (and the production of evidence)

Metaclassification (and the production of order)

Organisational representation (and the reproduction of values)

Inferential contextualisation (and the production of room for manoeuvre)

Coping with professional status strain on the front-line

5. The conversations between participatory journalists and critical publics

The routines for organising and engaging in discussion

The discursive identity of the journalist as discussant

Examples of common accusation-response sequences

Setting off metajournalistic tongues

6. Defending the authenticity of online public spheres

Naming and accusing false discussants

User intuition as a reputation management routine

Admining as a quality control routine

Verification as a credential-checking routine

A new calculation space

Protecting online public spheres : zonal monitoring and mobile vigilance

7. Conclusions

The essential 'liveness' of routines

Venue-sensitive argumentative registers

An orchestrated distribution of competences

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319529646

3319529641

OCLC:

967973320