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- Booker, Nancy, et al.
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Putting Forward Sustainability as a Model for Journalism Education and Training
- 2024
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In: Journalism Practice. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1751-2786 .- 1751-2794. ; , s. 1-25
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- African journalism practice presents unique opportunities and challenges that require journalists to be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and values to engage in sustainable journalism. Training institutions play a critical role in ensuring that journalists are not only professionally-ready to execute their mandate but also that they can safeguard and promote ethical values in their everyday work. Some of these values include “truth telling, independence, objectivity, fairness, inclusivity and social justice” (Gade, Nduka, and Dastger 2017, 10). Africa, like other regions of the Global South, has several journalism training institutions that provide an opportunity to challenge “hegemonic epistemologies and ontologies of Western-centric journalism studies” (Mutsvairo et al. 2021, 993). In the context of this submission, the present study investigates the current state of sustainable journalism in Africa. We examined data based on a syllabi analysis of journalism programs in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana to appraise what role sustainable journalism education and training could play in Africa. Findings show that efforts are already in place across select learning and training institutions but also point to profound gaps in the curriculum, pedagogy and resources needed to prepare journalists for sustainable journalism.
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- de la Brosse, Renaud, 1964-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2019
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In: Media and Journalism in an Age of Terrorism. - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. - 1527533123 - 9781527533127 ; , s. xi-xvi
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Elliot, Maria, et al.
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Editorial: Freedom of expression and the online abyss
- 2020
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In: Media and Communication. - Lisbon, Portugal : Cogitatio Press. - 2183-2439. ; 8:4, s. 107-109
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This introduction to the thematic issue Freedom of Expression, Democratic Discourse and the Social Media discusses the state of the debate surrounding freedom of expression in the field of communication studies and presents four original articles dealing with freedom of speech in contemporary media from different perspectives.
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Freedom of Expression, Democratic Discourse and the Social Media
- 2020. - 8
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The articles in this thematic issue, each in their own way, provide relevant and original contributions to the ongoing debate. Ricknell (2020) provides a constructive framework that allows for a structured discussion of the possible scenarios. Glazunova’s (2020) analysis of a Russian case is original since the current research trend within media and populism is to focus on the rise of populist politicians in democratic Western countries (Krämer & Holtz-Bacha, 2020). Glazunova’s analysis shows that alternative media platforms can serve important political and ideological purposes in certain media landscapes, while at the same time being a channel for populist messages, targeting a Media and Communication, 2020, Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 107–109 108 corrupt elite. Latif’s (2020) contribution also addresses a complex and sensitive question from an unusual perspective for media scholars: What public positions are realistically available for Muslim intellectuals in America today? It describes the dynamics of cancel culture that should be taken more seriously by the community of media scholars. Wegner et al. (2020) emphasize the fact that it is not only journalists who are put in harm’s way, the silencing of other voices is indeed a reality and is equally harmful and problematic. As an area of interest to media scholars, issues such as these deserve further attention.
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- Frischlich, Lena, et al.
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Contesting the Mainstream : Towards an Audience-Centered Agenda of Alternative News Research
- 2023
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In: Digital Journalism. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 2167-0811 .- 2167-082X. ; 11:5, s. 727-740
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In order to better understand alternative news media, we need to focus more centrally on the audiences that regularly consume them. This special issue, entitled “Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding Alternative News Media,” advances such an audience turn. In the introduction, we outline how scholars have understood and characterized alternative news audiences. These have ranged from seeing them as (i) ideal participants and activists; as (ii) being misinformed and manipulated; and as (iii) being critical users. Drawing on studies published in this special issue, we highlight how these studies provide new and revealing empirical insights that advance all three perspectives. Taken together, the articles make a strong argument to move beyond binary ideations of normatively “good” or “bad” alternative news audiences. In our view, they signal the need to better understand the complexity behind audience engagement not just with alternative news media but mainstream journalism more generally. Based on this argument, we identify several starting points for moving the field forward with such an audience turn in mind.
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- Haller, André, et al.
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Paradoxical populism: how PEGIDA relates to mainstream and alternative media
- 2019
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In: Information, Communication and Society. - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1369-118X .- 1468-4462. ; 22:12, s. 1665-1680
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The distrust of mainstream media expressed in the slogan ‘the liar press’ (‘Lügenpresse’) is often used as an example of a populist, anti-establishment attitude that is currently winning terrain throughout the Western world. In combination with the rise of alternative media (especially online), it poses a serious challenge for ‘old media’. But how do those who are most suspicious and critical relate to the mainstream media in their own media channels? In this article, we have compared the official Facebook pages of the PEGIDA movement in Germany and Austria, in order to describe their use of references to traditional/mainstream and alternative media. The results indicate that references to mainstream and alternative media are distributed almost equally. Furthermore, when there are references to mainstream media, they are generally of an affirmative nature. These findings are relevant for the debate about cyberbalcanization, echo chambers, filter bubbles and the impact of alternative media on public discourse.
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- Haller, André, et al.
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The 'other' alternatives : Political right-wing alternative media
- 2019
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In: Journal of alternative and community media. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 2206-5857. ; 4:1, s. 1-6
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This special issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media presents five articles that examine right-wing alternative media from different countries and contexts: Brazil, the United States, Germany and Finland. They focus on different aspects of a phenomenon that has come to the forefront of public debate in recent years, due to the many apparently successful alternative media enterprises that can be characterised as conservative, libertarian, populist or far to extreme right wing on a political scale. While there has been much (and often heated) public debate about this, researchers tend to lag behind when it comes to new trends, and a transient and rapidly changing media landscape. The articles in this special issue are therefore especially valuable, since they all provide empirically grounded perspectives on specific cases that illustrate different parts of a large puzzle that is in much need of illumination. This special issue is of use not just to communication research, but also to the public debate on disinformation on the internet.
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- Holt, Kristoffer, 1976-, et al.
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Alternative Journalists? : Journalistic Self-Conceptions of Right-Wing Online Media
- 2020
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The number of studies on right-wing alternative media on the internet have increased in the last years. Many right-wing alternative sites claim that they present alternative interpretations of political and societal events and the necessity of relational analyses it has been stressed to understand the success of these pages. This paper presents a media historical approach in studying how alternative online media define themselves today in the German context. Looking at older works, some distinct features of left-wing alternative media and journalism in the 1970s and 80s are especially prominent revealed: 1) Criticism of the mainstream media in the respective countries, 2) the establishment of counter-hegemonic structures, 3) non-commerciality and 4) elements of participatory journalism. This paper hypothesizes that right-wing media in the present adopted these left-wing journalistic and ideologically infused tropes to frame themselves as alternatives to “mainstream media”. Empirical examples are analysed and discussed to get an explorative insight into the self-conceptions of rightist online media. The paper also discusses arguments of democracy and communication theory to evaluate effects of the rising numbers of right-wing alternative media.
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- Holt, Kristoffer, 1976-
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Alternative Media and the Notion of Anti-Systemness : Towards an Analytical Framework
- 2018
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In: Media and Communication. - Lisboa : Cogitatio. - 2183-2439. ; 6:4, s. 49-57
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A range of alternative media outlets focusing on criticizing immigration politics and mainstream media have emerged in Sweden in recent years. Although they have quite different ideological profiles, they share a clear and critical focus on immigration and mainstream journalistic representations of reality. Their message is that mainstream media conceal or distort information about negative societal and cultural consequences of immigration and that mainstream journalists have teamed up with the political elites and engage in witch-hunts of critics, while ignoring abuses by those in power. Such media outlets (especially online participatory media) need to be analyzed in the light of their position as self-perceived correctives of traditional media. There has been a remarkable surge of alternative media in Sweden with these traits in common during the past few years, and it is important to be able to discuss these media together as a phenomenon, while at the same time taking their differences into account. In relation to this, I argue that the notion of anti-systemness is useful in discussions of the impact these alternative media may (or may not) have on public discourse. In the article, I present a matrix that distinguishes between different types of anti-systemness: ideological anti-systemness and relational anti-systemness. The article therefore mainly presents a theoretical argument, rather than empirical findings, with the aim of pointing to a way forward for research about alternative media.
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