2024-03-28T23:15:57Z
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oai:zenodo.org:3773964
2020-04-29T09:33:07Z
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Vandendaele, Astrid
Declercq, Jana
Jacobs, Geert
Verkest, Sofie
2020-04-28
<p>Online Headline Testing at a Belgian Broadsheet: </p>
<p>A Postfoundational Perspective on How News Professionals ‘Sell’ Content </p>
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<p>In this talk, I approach the changing status of journalism from a postfoundational perspective, in order to gain an understanding of how old foundations or journalism become less solid and contested and enter a dialogue with new ones, and to which newly emerging foundations this leads. </p>
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<p>In journalism as it stands today, a number of previously fixed roles are being contested. I focus on one such professional shift, viz. that in the role of the online sub-editor, and his/her approach to ‘selling’ an article’s content. Following previous research on sub-editing (Vandendaele & Jacobs, 2013; Vandendaele et al, 2015; Vandendaele, 2017a; 2017b; 2017c; 2018), I set out to investigate the impact of recently introduced audience-monitoring tools on one of the sub-editors’ main jobs, i.e. that of crafting headlines. </p>
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<p>Drawing on digital data, interviews and fieldwork conducted in the newsroom of a Flemish broadsheet, I zoom in on how sub-editors (and other online news workers) systematically use audience-monitoring tools to test various versions. They analyse how many clicks and how much reading time a headline generates, before selecting a ‘winner’ to appear on the broadsheet’s website, social media and newsletter. In particular, I analyse the continuous back and forth between the online news workers’ journalistic gut feeling, their awareness of ‘selling’ their broadsheet’s brand ‘in the right way’, i.e. in line with the media outlet’s identity and values, and the need to gain clicks. </p>
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<p>The online sub-editors’ process to gather ‘quality clicks’ is characterised as a constant struggle between news values (Galtung & Ruge, 1965; Harcup & O’Neill, 2001; 2016; Bednarek & Caple, 2017), production values (criteria sub-editors apply in their treatment of a newspaper article; Vandendaele, 2017) and the audience monitoring tools that register which stories are clicked, liked or shared most. Relying on the analytical power of a linguistic ethnographic perspective (NT&T, 2011), I address how the (online) sub-editors critically reflect on how their professional routines, and how the construction of their expertise and the interaction with their target audience are changing. By zooming in on the pivotal and evolving role played by the online sub-editors and their aim to position themselves – and their journalistic expertise – in tandem with their algorithmic tools as foundational to news media today, I aim to shed new light on how metrics in the newsroom are (re)defining journalism and the role of the journalism professional. </p>
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Chapter in forthcoming (preliminary entitled) volume: "Finding foundations:
TOWARDS ENGAGEMENT, COLLABORATION AND PARTICIPATION" (editors: Declercq, Macgilchrist, Jacobs & Vandendaele)
Link to online discussion: https://jstudiesseminars.flarum.cloud/d/3-online-headline-testing-dr-astrid-vandendaele-29-april-15-may-2020
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3773964
oai:zenodo.org:3773964
eng
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/communities/jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3773963
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media linguistics, linguistic ethnography, sub-editing, journalism, postfoundationalism
Online Headline Testing at a Belgian Broadsheet: A Postfoundational Perspective on How News Professionals 'Sell' Content
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oai:zenodo.org:4267911
2023-07-18T12:45:10Z
user-observatorio
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user-jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
user-crises_resources
user-covid-19
Berardi, Silvio
Marsili, Marco
2020-11-01
<p>This paper aims to shed light on the right to information and the freedom of the media in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak. Infection disease outbreaks are invariably characterized by myths and rumors, boosted by social media accounts, that media often pick up and circulate. On the grounds of protecting public health, some Member States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe imposed strict rules on the dissemination of “fake news”. Lacking a legal definition of this term leaves room for arbitrary and broad interpretations. Emergency legislation adopted under the pretext of combating misinformation and disinformationand to protect public health restrict the freedom of expression and information. This essay review of the outbreak communication principles established by the World Health Organization and checks the compliance of emergency measures against fundamental human rights.</p>
Paper available at http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/estratto.html?item=10.4399/97888255402468&isbn=9788825540246. Journal issue available from http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825540246. ISBN: 978-88-255-4024-6 / ISSN: 2499-6394. The author gratefully acknowledges the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for supporting this work through grant SFRH/BD/136170/2018.
https://doi.org/10.4399/97888255402468
oai:zenodo.org:4267911
eng
Aracne
issn:2499-6394
https://zenodo.org/communities/covid-19
https://zenodo.org/communities/btfp
https://zenodo.org/communities/jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
https://zenodo.org/communities/observatorio
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Europea, 2, 147-169, (2020-11-01)
COVID-19
Disinformation
Misinformation
Democracy
Human Rights
International Law
Coronavirus
World Health Organization (WHO)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PACE)
Censorship
COVID-19 Infodemic: Fake News, Real Censorship. Information and Freedom of Expression in Time of Coronavirus
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oai:zenodo.org:3799047
2020-05-11T20:20:41Z
user-jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
Eldridge, Scott A. II
2020-05-06
<p>This paper is part of a larger project utilizing interviews with interloping journalists, analysis of their content, and an interactive audience study to examine journalistic outsiders from new angles. As journalistic outsiders, interlopers offer particularly contrarian approaches to journalistic work, approaches which further inform their relationships with members of the public. Members of the public also recognize the contrarian nature of interlopers, and consider this relationship when negotiating the information value of interloper content. Findings presented here highlight how interactive audience research can help us further understand those who challenge, and at times expand, our understanding of news and journalism by drawing in the perspectives of those who consume it. In its conclusions, this paper advocates examining journalism through the critical interactivity audiences have with interloper content, locating journalism within the spaces where these relationships play out.</p>
<p>For discussion, go <a href="https://jstudiesseminars.flarum.cloud/d/5-journalism-in-the-spaces-between-dr-scott-eldridge">here</a></p>
For discussion and comment, go to: https://jstudiesseminars.flarum.cloud/d/5-journalism-in-the-spaces-between-dr-scott-eldridge
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3799047
oai:zenodo.org:3799047
eng
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/communities/jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3799045
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Interlopers
Audiences
Journalistic Field
News as Knowledge
Journalism in the spaces between: Studying interlopers from an audience perspective
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
oai:zenodo.org:7022463
2022-09-02T10:35:14Z
user-jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
Marsili, Marco
2022-09-01
<p>Infection disease outbreaks are invariably characterized by myths and rumors, boosted by social media accounts, that media often pick up and circulate. On the grounds of protecting public health in the context of the covid-19 pandemic, some Member States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe imposed strict rules on the dissemination of “fake news”. This paper reviews the outbreak communication principles established by the World Health Organization and checks the compliance of emergency legislation, adopted under the pretext of combating misinformation and disinformation, against fundamental human rights.</p>
This work received financial support by the European Social Fund (ESF) and by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, under grant SFRH/BD/136170/2018. The participation in the conference was funded by the Research Centre of the Institute for Political Studies of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (CIEP-UCP)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7022463
oai:zenodo.org:7022463
eng
Université de Lorraine
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5541209
https://zenodo.org/communities/jnmjournalismstudiesseminars
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7022462
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Science&You 2021, Science&You 2021, Robert Schuman Conference Center, Metz, France, 16-19 November 2021
COVID-19
COVID19
Coronavirus
Disinformation
Misinformation
Democracy
censorship
Human Rights
International Law
World Health Organization (WHO)
Pandemic
Epidemic
virus
Sars-2
freedom of speech
freedom of thought
infodemic
freedom of expression
freedom of the press
freedom of information
propaganda
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Fundamental human rights
COVID-19 Infodemic: Fake News, Real Censorship. Information and Freedom of Expression in Time of Coronavirus
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