STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of Communications, Media and Culture book chapters and sections.
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Electronic copies of Communications, Media and Culture book chapters and sections.2024-03-19T03:03:29ZOnline News Audiences as Co-Authors? The Extent and Limits of Collaborative Citizen-Professional Journalism on Newspaper Comment Threads
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/35362
Title: Online News Audiences as Co-Authors? The Extent and Limits of Collaborative Citizen-Professional Journalism on Newspaper Comment Threads
Author(s): Morrison, James Gordon
Editor(s): Visnovsky, Jan; Radosinska, Jana
Abstract: Recent research has demonstrated how comment threads published beneath online news articles are being transformed into fluid interfaces between professional journalists, their work and their audiences. Today’s audience-members are not only able to respond to published narratives but to embellish and, potentially, contest them: by posting comments based on personal knowledge about an issue and even using eyewitness testimony to directly affirm or challenge a story’s details. Though often stylistically “messy,” such comment posts go beyond merely manifesting and magnifying news discourses—let alone simply reacting to them. Rather, as on social media, posters can publicly discuss and debate the meaning and significance of stories, with the more informed and assertive among them contributing content so significant that it reshapes the texts themselves. In so doing, such claims-makers and counter claims-makers become hybrids of journalists (news producers), audience-members (news consumers) and claims-makers (news sources). Drawing on the author’s recent empirical findings, this chapter argues that online news has entered a dynamic but disruptive new phase in which journalistic authority may increasingly be contested, as “audience-members” begin to compete with “reporters” for authorship of news narratives.2018-01-01T00:00:00ZFrom Community To Commerce? Analytics, audience 'engagement' and how local newspapers are renegotiating news values in the age of pageview-driven journalism
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34981
Title: From Community To Commerce? Analytics, audience 'engagement' and how local newspapers are renegotiating news values in the age of pageview-driven journalism
Author(s): Morrison, James
Editor(s): Gulyas, Agnes; Baines, David
Abstract: First paragraph: Industrialized newspaper journalism has long been propelled by more ‘market- driven’ motives (McManus, 1994 ) than any high- minded Burkean commitment to the ideals of a pluralist, truth- seeking “Fourth Estate” (Grande, 2014 ). From the sensational ‘yellow journalism’ patented by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst in the 1890s to the launch of picture- heavy tabloids like Rupert Murdoch’s (reinvented) Sun and Gannett’s USA Today three- quarters of a century later, to today’s ongoing absorption of swaths of local papers into regional conglomerates, the pursuit of profit as an engine of news production has consistently manifested itself as both a symptom and enabler of the “gradual shift away from financial dependence on political parties to dependence on circulation and advertising revenues” (Hampton, 2010 , 6).2020-01-01T00:00:00ZManaging Feelings: Raising Films' Testimonials and the Impact of Caring Responsibilities on the Emotional Well-being of Mothers Who Work in the UK Film and Television Sector
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34276
Title: Managing Feelings: Raising Films' Testimonials and the Impact of Caring Responsibilities on the Emotional Well-being of Mothers Who Work in the UK Film and Television Sector
Author(s): Berridge, Susan
Editor(s): Mayer, So; Columpar, Corinn2022-01-01T00:00:00ZBritish Cinema and Television
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33012
Title: British Cinema and Television
Author(s): Rolinson, David
Editor(s): Hill, John
Abstract: First paragraph: British television has had a major impact on British cinema, but the nature and value of their relationship have been fiercely debated. Understanding the financial, industrial and aesthetic convergence between cinema and television still requires the analysis of ‘the consequences [of television finance] for the types of films made’, the survival of ‘distinct film and television aesthetics’ and ‘the possibilities of cultural address’ outlined by John Hill and Martin McLoone (1996, pp. 2-6), even though convergence has increased and diversified in the 20 years since their study. These issues are productively revealed when, as Andrews (2014, p. 22) observes, convergence is ‘met with powerful discursive and presentational acts of divergence’. Therefore, in order to discuss the relationship between cinema and television, and the tensions raised by it, this chapter will focus on examples of convergence and divergence.2019-01-01T00:00:00Z