Journalistic Authority : Legitimating News in the Digital Era / Matt Carlson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, Matt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--United States--History--21st century.

Journalism.

Journalistic ethics--United States.

Journalistic ethics.

Journalism--Objectivity--United States.

Digital media--United States.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a quality of the connections between those laying claim to being an authority and those who assent to it. Matt Carlson examines the practices journalists use to legitimate their work: professional orientation, development of specific news forms, and the personal narratives they circulate to support a privileged social place. He then considers journalists' relationships with the audiences, sources, technologies, and critics that shape journalistic authority in the contemporary media environment. Carlson argues that journalistic authority is always the product of complex and variable relationships. By creating a schema to account for this complexity, he presents a new model for critiquing journalism while advocating for the norms and practices we want to be authoritative.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Many Relationships of Journalism

Part One. Foundations of Journalistic Authority

Chapter One. Professionalism as Privilege and Distance: Journalistic Identity

Chapter Two. Texts and Textual Authority: Forms of Journalism

Chapter Three. Telling Stories About Themselves: Journalism’s Narratives

Part Two. Journalistic Authority in Context

Chapter Four. Recognizing Journalistic Authority: The Public’s Opinion

Chapter Five. Legitimating Knowledge Through Knowers: News Sources

Chapter Six. Mediating Authority: The Technologies of Journalism

Chapter Seven. Challenging Journalistic Authority: The Role of Media Criticism

Conclusion: The Politics of Journalistic Authority

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Jul 2017)

ISBN:

9780231174442

0231174446

OCLC:

984626999