Abstract

This study examines digital media criticism—publicly shared evaluations and judgements of journalistic text and actors on various digital platforms—as a risk to journalism. It specifically interrogates how journalists negotiate the diverse nature of criticism in digital spaces and in a comparative context. Through qualitative interviews with practising journalists, the paper identifies the following four main journalistic responses to digital media criticism: consolidation (ringfencing journalistic discourse); filtering (cleaning up journalistic discourse); rationalisation (acknowledging criticism or non-responses) and counter-discourse (counteracting anti-media discourses). These responses, referred to as forms of digital discursive resistance, show that journalists are both defensive against and accommodating of risks to journalistic authority, but usually aim to reinforce and expand journalistic discourse in digital spaces.

摘要

本研究将数字媒体批评——在各种数字平台上公开分享的对新闻文本和演员的评价和判断——作为新闻业的风险进行检验。它专门询问记者如何在数字空间和比较背景下协商批评的多样性。通过对执业记者的定性采访，本文确定了以下四种主要的新闻媒体对数字媒体批评的反应：整合（包围新闻话语）；过滤（清理新闻话语）；合理化（承认批评或不回应）和反话语（抵制反媒体话语）。这些反应，被称为数字话语阻力的形式，表明记者既能防御也能适应新闻权威的风险，但通常旨在加强和扩大数字空间中的新闻话语。