Abstract

In probing how journalists negotiate the perceived discrepancy between their social role orientation and role performance, we arrive at a negotiative theory of roles. The theory is based on an inductive study where we combine classic theoretical frameworks of role theory with conceptual approaches of discursive institutionalism and Hochschilds’ theory of feeling rules. We examined journalists’ narratives from qualitative in-depth interviews with 20 Swiss newspaper journalists, who were asked to interpret the perceived gap—found in previous studies—between journalism ideals and journalism practice. The results compelled us to revisit role theories and to consider a number of overlooked or under-utilized analytic features of social roles to propose refinements to the concepts of journalistic roles and role performance. This resulted in a negotiative theory of roles that focuses attention on intra- and interpersonal discourse as well as what we call “role work.”

中文翻译：

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新闻角色谈判理论

摘要

在探究记者如何解决他们的社会角色定位与角色表现之间的差异时，我们得出了角色谈判的理论。该理论基于归纳研究，其中我们将角色理论的经典理论框架与话语制度主义和霍奇希尔德的感觉规则理论的概念方法结合在一起。我们通过对20位瑞士报纸记者进行的定性深入访谈，研究了记者的叙述，他们被要求解释新闻理想与新闻实践之间在以往研究中发现的感知鸿沟。结果迫使我们重新审视角色理论，并考虑社会角色的许多被忽视或利用不足的分析特征，以提出对新闻工作者角色和角色表现概念的改进。