"This second edition of The Handbook of Journalism Studies explores the current state of research in journalism studies and sets an agenda for future development of the field in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches to journalism research and
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covers scholarship on news production; news content; journalism and society; journalism and culture; and journalism studies in a global context. As journalism studies has become richer and more diverse as a field of study, the second edition reflects both the growing diversity of the field, and the ways in which journalism itself has undergone rapid change in recent years. Emphasizing comparative and global perspectives, this new edition explores: "Key elements, thinkers, and texts, historical context, current state of the field, methodological issues, merits and advantages of the approach/area of study, limitations and critical issues of the approach/area of study and directions for future research" (Publisher description)
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"This book questions whether the news we get is as useful for citizens as it could, or should, be. This international study of news is based on re-thinking and re-conceptualising the news values that underpin understandings of journalism. It goes beyond empirical descriptions of what journalism is t
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o explore normative ideas of what it might become if practised alongside commitments to ethical listening, active citizenship and social justice. It draws lessons from both alternative and mainstream media output; from both journalists and scholars; from both practice and theory. It challenges dominant news values by drawing on insights from feminism, peace journalism and other forms of critical thinking that are usually found on the margins of journalism studies. This original and engaging contribution to knowledge proposes an alternative set of contemporary news values that have significant implications for the news industry, for journalism education and for democracy itself." (Publisher description)
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"The second edition of Environment, Media and Communication builds on the first edition's framework for analysing and understanding media and communication roles in the politics of the environment. It draws on the significant and continuing growth and advances in the field of environmental communica
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tion research to show the increasing diversification and complexity of environmental communication. The book highlights the persistent urgency of analysing and understanding how communication about the environment is being influenced and manipulated, with implications for how and indeed whether environmental challenges are being addressed and dealt with.Since the first edition, changes in media organisations, news media and environmental journalism have continued apace, but - perhaps more significantly - the media technologies and the media and communications landscape have evolved profoundly with the continued rise of digital and social media. Such changes have gone hand in hand with, and often facilitated, enabled and enhanced shifting balances of power in the politics of the environment. There is thus a greater need than ever to analyse and understand the roles of mediated public communication about the environment, and to ask critical questions about who/what benefits and who/what is adversely affected by such processes." (Publisher description)
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"This article uses data from seven focus groups with media and communication university students in Kenya and South Africa to explore the efficacy of Chinese-mediated public diplomacy. We show that Chinese media have little impact on students’ information habits, demonstrate that attitudes toward
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China are predominantly negative, and argue that this stereotyping affects opinions about Chinese media. We also suggest that some students’ favored news values overlap with those associated with Chinese media. This may indicate a potential affinity between the journalistic practice of Chinese media in Africa and that of future Kenyan and South African media professionals, which could increase the chances of China’s media engagements having an impact in the long term." (Abstract)
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"Articulando pesquisas de campo e investigações mais teóricas, os oito capítulos presentes no vol. 5 dedicam-se a aprofundar conceitos que problematizam situações evidenciadas na contemporaneidade e que passam a fazer parte da agenda permanente das Teorias da Comunicação e do Jornalismo. Ent
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endemos que os capítulos do livro são olhares múltiplos para as teorias do jornalismo adentrando em propostas diferenciadas, mas essenciais para o despertar do conhecimento na área comunicacional." (Resumo)
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"This book explores the state of European foreign conflict reporting by public-sector broadcasters, post-Cold war and post-9/11. It compares the values of three television news providers from differing public systems: BBC’s News at 10, Russia’s Vremya and France 2’s 20 Heures. The book examine
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s how these three news providers have reported and broadcast the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which pre-dates both the change in East-West relations and the events of 9/11. In doing so, the work identifies and analyses the role of public and state-aligned broadcasters and illustrates how certain news values are consistently prioritised by the broadcasters and the effect this has on how news stories are portrayed. The book is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on 2006 to 2008 and provides a detailed quantitative overview of the broadcasters’ news values. Part II provides an update of the analysis by examining coverage of the war in Gaza 2014 and discusses the findings from audience research into perceptions of this latter war. This book explains that not only do hierarchies in news values exist in foreign conflict reporting but that they are never arbitrary and can be explained, in part, by the structure of the broadcasters and by events occurring within, or associated with, the reporting country, resulting in nationally differentiated perceptions of conflict throughout the world." (Routledge.com)
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"The purpose of this study is to determine whether the media language code is suitable for transmitting religious messages. In religious media communication one observes a tendency not to respect the classical news values, and in fact tends to limit them. This approach makes religious media communic
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ation fail at the start. Using textual analysis and qualitative research techniques, e.g., focus groups and Delphi, we investigate some news values relate (positively or negatively) to the religious messages. Here we present three most expressive of them: conflict, scandalousness and story. If messages are formed by news values, then religious messages are formed by means of values that we named the gospel values and can be identified with traditional Catholic Church virtues. Finding possible connections between the news values and the gospel values seems to be one of the basic solutions for the religious message media coding." (Abstract)
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"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a
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news value is highly contextual, and in some cases was found to be insufficient as a dominant news characteristic. Coverage displayed other dominant news values such as negativity, violence and graphic imagery of the dead and wounded, and the elite value of world leaders. It confirmed that a hierarchy of victims can be identified in coverage of humanitarian suffering. For example, coverage by 20 Heures of related protests in Paris revealed that domestic victims may quickly displace remote others because of their cultural and geographical proximity. News at Ten provided a predominantly humanitarian coverage with direct interaction with victims while 20 Heures preferred less emotive and more one-dimensional coverage supported throughout with analytical, factual information. The findings not only provided insight into compassion as a news value but also shed light on it as an emotion among the warring parties, demonstrating the difficulty, if not impossibility, of displaying compassion for the enemy, regardless of their state of suffering." (Conclusion)
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"Au second chapitre, nous avons vu que, dans l’ensemble, cette mission du journaliste se heurte à pas mal de défis dont l’identité, la qualité de l’audience, le contenu, ainsi la formation de ses agents. Le journaliste catholique travaille dans une entreprise qui, naturellement répond aux
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lois structurelles, économiques, managériales et productives précises. L’information, pour être pondue, passe par des canaux classiques qui s’imposent au journaliste catholique. Tout de même, dans le monde obnubilé par l’argent et le prestige, les journalistes sont tentés de donner la parole aux leaders plus qu’au plus petits, aux peuples puissants plus qu’aux peuples "moins avancés [...] Au troisième et au quatrième chapitre, nous avons analysé six périodiques hebdomadaires sur une période de 5 mois, pour voir combien ils parlent de l’homme des périphéries. Notre analyse du contenu révèle que le journaliste catholique va dans les périphéries mais qu’il peut encore aller plus loin. Il y a des situations encore ignorées, des laissés-pour-compte. Il ressort de cette recherche que la communication pastorale de l’Église peut encore viser plus haut, ou mieux, plus profond, vers les plus oubliés. La news value de proximité est bel et bien un critère journalistique qui gagne les lettres de noblesse car elle permet d’actualiser l’invitation du Saint-Père d’aller vers les périphéries, d’actualiser la loi d’amour, d’imiter le Bon Samaritain et de laisser les quatre-vingt-dix-neuf brebis bien portante pour aller chercher celle qui s’est égarée.285 Le critère de proximité devient le principe d’action pour la fraternité humaine et la solidarité universelle aux dépens des contraintes économiques, politiques et socioculturelles qui régissent le monde des médias." (Conclusion générale, page 145-146)
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"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio
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n against dictatorship and repression, posed an explicit challenge to journalists in state-run and commercial media companies who were more directly subject to government controls. As different interest groups struggle over the country’s future, Naomi Sakr considers emerging visions of journalism in Egypt. In this book she charts recent transformations in Egyptian journalism, exploring diverse approaches to converged media and the place of participatory cross-media networks in expanding and developing the country's body of professional journalists. She analyses journalist’ initiatives for restructuring publicly owned media and securing a safe and open environment in which to work." (Publisher description)
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"Im gegenwärtigen Globalisierungszeitalter betreffen Nachrichten aus dem Ausland die Bürger in Deutschland oftmals ebenso direkt oder indirekt, wie Nachrichten aus dem eigenen Land. Deshalb sollte der Auslandsberichterstattung in den öffentlich-rechtlichen Sendern ein hoher Stellenwert eingeräum
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t werden. Doch da auf Seiten der Sender befürchtet wird, mit hintergründiger Auslandsberichterstattung keine großen Marktanteile zu erzielen, wird dieses journalistische Themenfeld im Kontext der öffentlich-rechtlichen Programme fast zur Gänze vernachlässigt: Weder die Auslandsberichterstattung des ZDF noch die der ARD wird, so die Haupterkenntnis dieser Arbeit, den durch die voranschreitende Globalisierung aller Lebensbereiche entstandenen Anforderungen gerecht." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This publication was created to serve two purposes: Firstly, it aims to provide a thorough review of the status quo of the Namibian media system. Secondly, it is the first study to apply the theory of the European-focused news value research tradition to Namibian media. Aside from literature and on
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line research, in-depth interviews with media representatives were conducted and questionnaires distributed amongst Namibian journalists and media students in 2009." (Introduction, page 9)
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"Der Band ist eine systematische und grundlegende Einführung in die Medieninhaltsforschung in Deutschland. Der erste Teil beschäftigt sich mit der quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse als Methode und gibt dem Leser Kriterien an die Hand, die ihm die Beurteilung der Qualität und die Interpretation von inh
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altsanalytischen Befunden erleichtern sollen. Der zweite Teil stellt die wichtigsten Ergebnisse inhaltsanalytischer Studien in den Bereichen aktuelle Berichterstattung (z.B. Politikdarstellung, Gewaltanteil, Darstellung von Risiken), unterhaltende Medieninhalte sowie Werbung zusammen. Ziel des Lehrbuchs ist ein systematischer Überblick über die Medieninhalte in Deutschland." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The major conclusion is that information flows are far more strongly influenced and oriented first by historical and cultural links, including those remaining from colonial times, then by ideological affinities and lastly by community of interests, than they are by geographical proximity. This is n
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o surprise but may at first sight appear unfortunate, Less than twenty per cent of the news space in the South Americar, dailies, for example, is given over to Latin America, and the Senegalese press shows greater interest in a minor ministerial reshuffle in France or the Federal Republic of Germany than in an election taking place in the Gambia or the Ivory Coast." (Introduction)
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