04116nam 22006735 450 991025269110332120200630015055.03-319-52965-X10.1007/978-3-319-52965-3(CKB)3710000001127431(DE-He213)978-3-319-52965-3(MiAaPQ)EBC4834767(EXLCZ)99371000000112743120170331d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiscussing the News The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public /by Simon Smith1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource illustrationsPalgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy3-319-52964-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Chapter 1: Participatory journalism as a way of knowing -- Chapter 2: Contextualising the research setting -- Chapter 3: Judging the quality of online discussion: the invisible work of ‘admins’ -- Chapter 4: The conversations between participatory journalists and critical publics -- Chapter 5: Defending the authenticity of online public spheres -- Conclusion.This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a participatory media environment – the administration (moderation) of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in comments below their articles. The author argues that it is precisely because both roles are treated as peripheral and undignified in newsrooms that they are so revealing, following the maxim: to make sense of what professions are and where they are heading, look at their boundaries and their dirty work. Based on a three-year ethnographic study, it offers key insights about the role of the media as democratic intermediaries in political participation, the creative possibilities for ‘amateurs’ as co-producers of digital news, the changing character of the knowledge professions and the dynamics of organisational innovation. The book argues that as media organisations face a crisis in their ability to represent the public, the challenge is to orchestrate participatory journalism as a collective accomplishment in which everyone is not a journalist but everyone can be a contributor. Bridging the divides between communication studies, linguistics, STS, organisational and occupational sociology it will interest social scientists and media studies experts.Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and PolicyMass mediaCommunicationJournalismSociologySocial mediaEthnographyMedia Sociologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22110Journalismhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X28010Media Researchhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X29000Social Mediahttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/412020Media and Communicationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/412010Ethnographyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12060Mass media.Communication.Journalism.Sociology.Social media.Ethnography.Media Sociology.Journalism.Media Research.Social Media.Media and Communication.Ethnography.302.23Smith Simonauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut889553BOOK9910252691103321Discussing the News2523793UNINA