Discussing the news : the uneasy alliance of participatory journalists and the critical public / Simon Smith.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Simon (Writer on journalism) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Series:Palgrave studies in science, knowledge, and policy.
Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2. Participatory journalism as a way of knowing
  • A pragmatic approach to the study of participatory journalism
  • Routines and artefacts
  • Argumentation
  • Competences
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3. Contextualising the research setting
  • The profession of journalism in Slovakia
  • Participation and commenting at case study 1--SME
  • Participation and commenting at case study 2--DenÅ„ik N
  • A journalism of opinion or communication?
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4. Judging the quality of online discussion : the invisible work of 'admins'
  • The constraining and enabling effects of routines
  • Who does the job? : defining the right bundle of tasks
  • The pioneers
  • The blogger admins
  • The web-editor admins
  • What tools are used? : designing the right interface
  • The system of alerts
  • Reputation control
  • Partial automation of the admin routine
  • What roles are performed? : admins' justificatory vocabulary
  • Six registers of justification
  • Classification (and the production of decisions)
  • Classificatory contextualisation (and the production of rules)
  • Qualification (and the production of evidence)
  • Metaclassification (and the production of order)
  • Organisational representation (and the reproduction of values)
  • Inferential contextualisation (and the production of room for manoeuvre)
  • Coping with professional status strain on the front-line
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. The conversations between participatory journalists and critical publics
  • The routines for organising and engaging in discussion
  • The discursive identity of the journalist as discussant
  • Examples of common accusation-response sequences
  • Setting off metajournalistic tongues
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6. Defending the authenticity of online public spheres
  • Naming and accusing false discussants
  • User intuition as a reputation management routine
  • Admining as a quality control routine
  • Verification as a credential-checking routine
  • A new calculation space
  • Protecting online public spheres : zonal monitoring and mobile vigilance
  • Notes
  • References
  • 7. Conclusions
  • The essential 'liveness' of routines
  • Venue-sensitive argumentative registers
  • An orchestrated distribution of competences
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.