ABSTRACT

This study promotes how discussions during photojournalism award judging can be used as metajournalistic discourse to gain insight about the definition, boundaries, and legitimization of the field. Journalism awards signal value, but the deliberation process offers richer insight via the judges’ comments. This study explores that process in two stages through discourse analysis of publicly-available video of judging rounds from two photojournalism competitions, Best of Photojournalism (BOP) and Pictures of the Year International (POYi). The first stage explores the ways in which judges talk about the photos and develops a framework for future analysis of contest judging. The second stage analyzes this discourse. Findings indicate that storytelling and emotion are key defining and legitimizing aspects of photojournalism, photojournalist’s actions and gear serve as boundary devices and the ongoing conversation about problematic misrepresentation in photojournalism is recognized but needs more emphasis.

摘要

这项研究促进了新闻摄影奖评选过程中的讨论如何用作元新闻学的论述，以获取有关该领域的定义，界限和合法性的见解。新闻业授予信号价值，但是审议过程通过法官的评论提供了更丰富的见识。本研究通过对两个摄影新闻比赛，最佳摄影新闻（BOP）和年度图片国际（POYi）的公开评审视频进行话语分析，从两个阶段探讨了这一过程。第一阶段探索法官谈论照片的方式，并为将来的比赛评审分析建立框架。第二阶段分析这一论述。研究结果表明，讲故事和情感是对摄影新闻进行定义和合法化的关键，