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Title Boundaries of journalism : professionalism, practices and participation / edited by Matt Carlson and Seth C. Lewis
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2015

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Series Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies
Shaping inquiry in culture, communication and media studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The many boundaries of journalism; The study of boundaries in the social sciences; Placing journalism's boundaries; Conceptualizing boundaries in journalism; Plan of the book; Notes; Part I: Professionalism, norms and boundaries; 1. Out of bounds: Professional norms as boundary markers ; Professional norms as boundary devices: Response to "new" media; Social journalism; Entrepreneurial journalism; Transparency as the new norm(al); Notes
2. Nothing but the truth: Redrafting the journalistic boundary of verificationThe importance of verification; Verification under pressure; The resuscitation of verification; The rearticulation of verification; The reinterpretation of verification; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Divided we stand: Blurred boundaries in Argentine journalism; Introduction; The forces of unprofessionalism; A new Argentina?; Failed professionalism amidst internal divisions; Conclusion; Notes; 4. The wall becomes a curtain: Revisiting journalism's news-business boundary; Foundations of the boundary; Violations and defenses
Boundary work strategiesContemporary challenges to the boundary; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Creating proper distance through networked infrastructure: Examining Google Glass for evidence of moral, journalistic witnessing; Introduction; The idea of witnessing: Three questions; Journalistic witnessing and proper distance; Glass's governance of proximity, risk, outcome; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Hard news/soft news: The hierarchy of genres and the boundariesof the profession; Introduction; Hard and soft news in the Norwegian context; Methodological boundaries; Contested divisions; Boundaries under dispute
ConclusionsNotes; 7. Internal boundaries: The stratification of the journalistic collective; A collective splitting up?; Understanding the field; Changing working conditions, changing ideals?; Study design; The online generation differs; Employment status; The rise of new hierarchies in the field; Notes; Part II: Encountering non-journalistic actors in newsmaking; 8. Journalism beyond the boundaries: The collective construction of news narratives; Introduction; The Djato controversy; An actor-network approach; A dialogic perspective on the controversy; Conclusion; Notes
9. Redrawing borders from within: Commenting on news stories as boundary workIntroduction; Boundary work in scholarship; The field of journalism; Interlopers in the field; Commenting spaces; Fact custodian; Storyteller; Historian; Boundary work; Conclusions; Notes; 10. Resisting epistemologies of user-generated content?: Cooptation, segregation and the boundaries of journalism; Introduction; The epistemology of journalism; Legacy news organizations and user-generated content; Introducing GuardianWitness; Conclusion; Notes
Summary The concept of boundaries has become a central theme in the study of journalism. In recent years, the decline of legacy news organizations and the rise of new interactive media tools have thrust such questions as ""what is journalism"" and ""who is a journalist"" into the limelight. Struggles over journalism are often struggles over boundaries. These symbolic contests for control over definition also mark a material struggle over resources. In short: boundaries have consequences. Yet there is a lack of conceptual cohesiveness in what scholars mean by the term ""boundaries"" or in how we should
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Journalistic ethics.
Journalism -- Objectivity.
Newspapers -- Objectivity.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Newspapers -- Objectivity
Journalism -- Objectivity
Journalistic ethics
Pressetik.
Journalistik.
Objektivitet.
Form Electronic book
Author Carlson, Matt, 1977- editor.
Lewis, Seth C., editor.
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