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Not getting your story straight: queering heroes’ journeys and heteronormative timelines Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Stayci Taylor
As with many popular texts promising templates for successful storytelling, The Writer’s Journey claims that a singular story structure applies to all voices and circumstances, therefore funnelling...
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Challenges to journalism safety education in Pakistan: proposing a new theoretical model Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rabia Noor
This article explores the challenges faced by the media education and curricula development in Pakistan, and how the safety of journalists is apportioned in the courses and curriculum of mass commu...
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Dogs and foxes; filmmaking to wild the domestic and domesticate the wild Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Christine Rogers, Liz Burke
In this co-written article creative practice researchers Christine Rogers (CR) and Liz Burke (LB) explicate their reasons for, processes, and outcomes of filming animals. Christine filmed the wild ...
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The making of All That Is Buried: dialog, chronotope and decoloniality Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Maire Tracey, Simon Stanton-Sharma, Sanja Nivesjö, Emma Barnes, Jade Munslow Ong
This article argues for the utility of Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theories in developing dialogic and decolonial filmmaking practices. Using the example of our research-led documentary film, All Th...
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Visual literacy study: influence of Instagram on interest in learning photography and its relation to gender Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Nadia Sigi Prameswari, Agus Cahyono, Slamet Subiyantoro, Eko Haryanto
This visual literacy study aimed to investigate how Instagram influence students’ interest in learning photography, with a focus on gender differences. Photography, being an integral part of visual...
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The art of gap management adopted and adapted from Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man to Deepa Mehta’s Earth Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Chitwan Kaur
The literary adaptation into cinematic terms has become a ubiquitous phenomenon. In such a way, it brings about the intersection of the literary and the cine-text working towards assessing the inte...
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Calling for ‘Podo-gogy’: why podcasting needs to be a part of journalism education in India Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Sneha Gore Mehendale
New forms and practices of journalism evolve and stabilize when they are socially, culturally and institutionally enabled [Bossio, Diana, and Jacob L. Nelson. 2021. “Reconsidering Innovation: Situa...
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Feeling, thinking, and not seeing: how images engage and disengage in an information-saturated world – a neurophenomenological perspective Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Thomas Marotta
We can no longer realise images solely through semiotic theories of interpretation and judgement fixed to earlier modes of communication, such as print. Instead, we engage with images through vario...
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Calling for ‘Podo-gogy’: why podcasting needs to be a part of journalism education in India Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Sneha Gore Mehendale
New forms and practices of journalism evolve and stabilize when they are socially, culturally and institutionally enabled [Bossio, Diana, and Jacob L. Nelson. 2021. “Reconsidering Innovation: Situa...
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Performance and orientation in the media higher education classroom Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Alexis Romero Walker
This article proposes additional critical media literacy principles regarding bodies and performance to be implemented in the media higher education classroom, based on the findings of an interpret...
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Practical worlds: enskilment as pedagogical practice Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Welby Ings
In 2000 Tim Ingold considered the nature of skill acquisition in physical locations where our attentive dwelling forms the basis from which learning occurs. He called this ‘enskilment’. Although ge...
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Challenges and opportunities of training teachers to develop comics for teaching socio-scientific issues Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Fadhlan Muchlas Abrori, Musa Saimon, Zsolt Lavicza, Branko Anđić
In education, a crucial aspect of teaching lies in the teacher's ability to create suitable learning media. As society evolves, so does the need to align the content of classroom media with the eme...
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Challenging the narrative: documentary film as participatory practice in conflict situations Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Brian Byrne
Published in Media Practice and Education (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Challenging the narrative: documentary film as participatory practice in conflict situations Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Brian Byrne
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2024)
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Using film to interpret a sense of place: a practice-based case study Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Sanna Wicks
This article presents a new approach for understanding the sense of place in film, based on the findings of a practice-based case study. With a background in both television production and heritage...
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Holographic prism projection: extinction rebellion & energy futures on sci-fi television Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Thor Kerr, Raymond Grenfell, Hafizur Rahaman, Maureen Boyle, Richard Eames
ABSTRACT This study in media practice provides insights on video production for holographic prism projection, which has become more accessible as smart flat screens have become more available. The study reflects on the experiences of producing, installing and viewing a documentary video projected via holographic prism, titled ‘FarNearFutureNow.’ Engaging the participation of Extinction Rebellion (XR)
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Holographic prism projection: extinction rebellion & energy futures on sci-fi television Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Thor Kerr, Raymond Grenfell, Hafizur Rahaman, Maureen Boyle, Richard Eames
This study in media practice provides insights on video production for holographic prism projection, which has become more accessible as smart flat screens have become more available. The study ref...
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Systematic contextual review and evaluation of current scholarship on Iranian cinema Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Hamideh Javadi
In recent years, Iranian ‘quality cinema’ has presented itself as a significant branch of the world’s cinematic practices and discourses. Similarly, the scholarship on cinematic aspects and approac...
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Exhausted and lonely: learning in student newsrooms during COVID Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Lisa Lyon Payne, Jean Norman, Elizabeth Smith, Kirstie Hettinga
In a mixed methods survey (N = 323), college journalists shared their experiences of working in remote student newsrooms during the COVID-19 campus disruptions. Through the theoretical lens of Comm...
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Surveillance frontierism: art and the colonial project of surveillance Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Susan Cahill
ABSTRACT In this paper, I analyse Shaheer Tarar’s artwork Jack Pine (2019) to question how settler colonialism is produced and reproduced through surveillant visualisations of the land. Specifically, I explore how Tarar’s representations of surveillant images of the land critically engages with historical and ongoing narratives of white settlement in the Canadian territory. As such, I ask: what knowledges
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Disrupting surveillance: media arts practice for a reimagined future Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Patrícia Nogueira, Joana Pestana, Ana Carvalho
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Career decision self-efficacy: the influence of film and television business coursework on young film/TV professionals Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Brandon J. R. Loureiro, Myra Lovett
Previous research in film and television (film/TV) has shown that the field has grown considerably in the past century, though most college programs lack substantial content on the business side of...
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Denormalising surveillance through curation in Face Value: Surveillance and Identity in the Age of Digital Face Recognition Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Rosa Wevers
ABSTRACT In spite of a range of fundamental issues, biometric surveillance has become an integral part of everyday life. Artists are creating a range of creative responses to the emergence of biometric control that critically interrogate and denormalise it. Most of the existing research in this topic however ignores the exhibitionary context in which surveillance art is usually experienced. This article
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An island under surveillance? Meriem Bennani’s Party On The CAPS (2018) and the poor image in the digital age Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Martin Bartelmus
ABSTRACT The Western gaze instituted by the cinematographic apparatus constructs racialized subjects and supports processes of dispossession. My present transmedial artistic research project engages with the biopolitics of representation in archival film material, from a decolonial perspective. By drawing from academic and non-academic sources on relations between colonialism, capitalism, and technologies
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Disruptive exhibitionism - a performance methodology for surveillance art Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Julia Chan, Stéfy McKnight
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen an increase in work that critically names surveillance as a colonial logic, technology, and practice (see Browne 2015; Maynard 2017; Cahill 2019; Cahill 2021). To contribute to this turn, we propose ‘disruptive exhibitionism,’ a theoretical and methodological concept for surveillance performance art developed through the lenses of anti-colonialism, anti-racism, and queer
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Introducing new hypertexts on interpreting (studies) Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Ran Yi
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Speculating surveillant futures past – a case study of the south side speculations project Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Gary Kafer
ABSTRACT This article surveys the media arts practice-based research involved in the South Side Speculations (SSS) project. SSS was an intergenerational collaboration among Chicago-based high school students, arts and humanities scholars, and practicing artists and storytellers facilitated by the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago that sought to reimagine the pasts and futures
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Secret Cinema and the immersive experience industry Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Roy Hanney
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)
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Live visuals: history, theory, practice Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Roy Hanney
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Medical propaganda as enabling device of the surveillance apparatus – decolonizing and anarchiving non-fiction at the eye film museum archive Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Paula Albuquerque
ABSTRACT The Western gaze instituted by the cinematographic apparatus constructs racialized subjects and supports processes of dispossession. My present transmedial artistic research project engages with the biopolitics of representation in archival film material, from a decolonial perspective. By drawing from academic and non-academic sources on relations between colonialism, capitalism, and technologies
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Coexistence and creativity: screen media education in the age of artificial intelligence content generators Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Stuart Marshall Bender
This article discusses the implications of Artificial Intelligence Content Generators (Gen-AI) for the field of screen media education. In light of the 2022–2023 releases of ChatGPT, DALL·E 2 and M...
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The story of British animation Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Asha Padisetti
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Digital arts – refugee engagement Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Amr Aljouni, Ozden Bademci, Susan Hogan, Sara Marino, Julian McDougall, Isabella Rega, Sarah Skyrme, Nasir Uddin
Digital Arts – Refugee Engagement (DA-RE) is an exploratory research partnership between refugee youth, academics, practitioners and community activists. Arts-based activities were combined with di...
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Shama, an insider looking in: a community-centred collaborative documentary production Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Arezou Zalipour, James Nicholson
In this article, we analyse and reflect on the complex interweaving of documentary strategies and the five levels of performance that we designed in a small-scale community-centred collaborative do...
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Ethics as the backbone of the professional identity of Belgian journalism interns Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Marie Fierens, Hedwig de Smaele, David Domingo, Florence Le Cam, Karin Raeymaeckers, Martina Temmerman, Florian Tixier
This study analyzes the perceptions of professional ethics expressed by Belgian – both Francophone and Flemish – journalism students after their first internships. 13 focus groups including 59 stud...
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Lessons for screen production pedagogy from pandemic-era experiences of teaching online Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Claire Henry, Milan Maric
Screen production educators throughout Australasia pivoted to online and remote teaching as the Covid-19 pandemic restricted face-to-face teaching. Teachers’ experiences in 2020–2021 are instructiv...
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Smartphone filmmaking: theory and practice Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Darcy Yuille
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Interactive documentary: decolonising practice-based research Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Kim Munro
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)
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Introduction – Creativity matters: poetics, pedagogy, production, policy Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Margaret McVeigh, Aurora Mei Scheelings, Joseph K. Grogan, Joanne Tindale
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)
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Assessing the quality of subtitles using FAR model: a case of the English subtitles of five Persian films Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Saleh Sanatifar, Ziba Ghamsarian
Subtitles, as the most common form of audiovisual translation, allow international viewers from all backgrounds to access, comprehend, enjoy, interpret, and remember audiovisual products. However, ...
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Creating character in editing Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Kersti Grunditz Brennan, Karen Pearlman
This article focuses on methods by which editors shape character in editing. Given that editors’ choices of shot, take, and timing augment and vary actors’ performances and directors’ instructions,...
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Co-creative practice reconciling theory and practice in tertiary student documentary production Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Freya Wright-Brough, Phoebe Hart, Sean Maher, Susan Cake
ABSTRACT Accommodating theory and practice is a significant pedagogical challenge for screen programmes in higher education. Integrating theory and practice within the pedagogy of documentary screen production raises specific issues related to its ethical obligations and social change remit. Designing screen studies programmes that effectively support students to become critically aware and reflexive
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Creative arts, screen research, neo-liberalism, and a dance Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Tom Murray
This essay employs personal biography to illustrate larger questions regarding global transformations in the creative arts and tertiary education sector. With a focus on how neo-liberalism has impa...
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Can web 3.0 shape cinema 3.0? Towards community engaged independent film development and distribution Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Max Schleser
ABSTRACT This article defines Cinema 3.0 in order to examine the opportunities for community-engaged film development and distribution. The emergence of Web 3.0 provides novel perspectives for filmmakers to realise independent screen productions. Through proposing Cinema 3.0, this article further develops Cinema 2.0 through decentralised approaches. The literature review indicates that more research
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Emerging visions: the (hero’s) journey to a career in Australian film and television production Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Craig C. Rossiter
ABSTRACT Despite an increasing proportion of the film and television workforce with tertiary qualification, the value of higher education as a source of training and development for, and a pathway into, the industry remains unclear. Education and screen policy could do better preparing emerging filmmakers for their career but there are few studies that consider the pathways and the journey from emerging
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Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Julia Garas
Published in Media Practice and Education (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)
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Shared visions of animation: empowering creativity and innovation within tertiary education Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Steven Murdoch, Darren C. Fisher
ABSTRACT This paper presents an application of business leadership theory and do/be/feel goal modelling strategies to support the collective development of animated films. We examine how both approaches can work synergistically to foster intra-communication and the shared understanding of creative concepts within student teams. We take the position that these approaches have the capacity to positively
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Redesigning screen production pedagogy for hybrid learning models Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Andrew James Couzens, Jan Cattoni
ABSTRACT The Bachelor of Digital Media at Central Queensland University has a policy of offering all units on-campus and online. The introduction of screen production to the degree introduces a unique opportunity to interrogate best practice for delivering production units in this hybrid context. Despite widespread interest in hybrid delivery models due to COVID-19 restrictions, there has been little
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Creating screen stories with game engines: challenges and opportunities for students and researchers working collaboratively across disciplines Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Kath Dooley, Susannah Emery
ABSTRACT In recent years, the increased take up of game engines in the context of emerging and traditional screen media production has fostered innovation across formats. Game engines present an opportunity to author immersive projects that draw upon the expertise of experience designers, game developers, screenwriters and other creative practitioners; however, questions arise as to the ways that individuals
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Editorial Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-11-23 Julian McDougall
Published in Journal of Media Practice (Vol. 18, No. 2-3, 2017)
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Beyond visibility – scientific imaging as an artistic tool Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-27 Elke E. Reinhuber
ABSTRACT Since the scientific discoveries to capture what lies beyond on the far side of our visible range and beyond the surfaces, the possibilities for photography in an artistic context have expanded constantly. With the insight into artistic research in the field of scientific imaging technologies, in particular thermography, the author proposes a new visual genre beyond the visible spectrum. To
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The accused is entering the courtroom: the live-tweeting of a murder trial Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-26 Megan Knight
ABSTRACT The use of social media is now widely accepted within journalism as an outlet for news information. Live tweeting of unfolding events is standard practice. In March 2014, Oscar Pistorius went on trial in the Gauteng High Court for murder. Hundreds of journalists present began live-tweeting coverage, an unprecedented combination of international interest, permission to use technology and access
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On digital music consumption and user-generated content on YouTube: recoding ¿Quién será? Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-25 Mine Güven
ABSTRACT This paper aims to provide a semiotic analysis of user-generated content on YouTube concerning the song ¿Quién será? ‘Who will it be?’ (1953, music by Pablo Beltran Ruíz and Luis Demetrio Traconis Molina; lyrics by Pablo Beltran Ruíz), making reference to concepts such as bricolage, hypertextuality and microcelebrity to account for the overall nature of the content. Users connect available
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Seeing and knowing Titanic Belfast using augmented reality: an auto-ethnographic view Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-21 Helen Jackson
ABSTRACT This paper brings together auto-ethnographic and participatory research to investigate how the practice of vision constructed through a locative-based augmented reality (AR) browser creates and reveals values and meanings connected to geographies of the place. Leveraging the potential of the collective cultural consciousness formed by the legacy of Titanic, the author has developed an AR browser
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The affective function of a Greek animation-making project Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-14 Eirini Arnaouti
ABSTRACT This paper presents a case study realized in a Greek model high school as an extracurricular animation-making project during an after-school club. The student-participants were 20 volunteers between 16 and 18 years old. The researcher studied the affective function of moving image literacy, i.e. the feelings and emotions experienced by the student-participants during animation-viewing, animation-making
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Disrupting the narrative: immersive journalism in virtual reality Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-14 Sarah Jones
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualises immersive journalism, and discusses the implications of the technology for users who then get a first-hand experience of being at a news event through wearing a virtual reality headset. The paper surveys current approaches to 360-degree immersive journalism films that were produced by early adopters in 2015, identifying the contrasting narrative forms and style of
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Sourcing practices in online journalism: an ethnographic study of the formation of trust in and the use of journalistic sources Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-14 Ville J. E. Manninen
ABSTRACT Arguably one of the most important factors of journalistic quality is careful source selection. Studies on online journalism have revealed working conditions which may lead to poor sourcing practices. This article seeks to answer the following questions: What sources do online journalists use, and how do they rationalize their sourcing practices? A total of 17 Finnish online journalists in
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Shift in influence: an argument for changes in studying gatekeeping Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-13 Patrick Ferrucci, Edson C. Tandoc Jr
ABSTRACT This study utilizes an ethnography to examine the influences on news production processes at a digitally native news nonprofit. Prior literature suggests that communication routines remain the most powerful influence on news production, but this study’s findings suggest that because of the influx of different market models currently impacting the journalism industry, organizational level influences
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‘Come join and let’s BOND’: authenticity and legitimacy building on YouTube’s beauty community Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-09-13 Florencia García-Rapp
ABSTRACT Contrary to the fifteen minutes of fame of online memes and viral videos in the volatile and competitive environment of YouTube, successful beauty gurus achieve sustained popularity, enjoy from long-lasting viewer engagement and inhabit legitimized celebrity positions. This article is based on a multi-year ethnographic examination of YouTube’s beauty community, focusing on the popular British-Chinese
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Mind the gap! Working papers on practice-based doctoral research in the creative arts and media Journal of Media Practice Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Sabine El Chamaa