Digital populism, digital newswork and the concept of journalistic competence: the Philippine condition

Estella, Pauline Gidget

doi:10.1177/1329878x211003568

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“…As there are few qualitative studies (e.g. Marta-Lazo et al, 2020;Estella, 2021) on DC, our study adds to this limited body of qualitative research in this field.…”

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confidence: 87%

Framing digital competence in media work – The case of Finland

Parkatti

Саари

Tammelin

et al. 2022

IJSSP

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PurposeThis article aims to study digital competence (DC) in media work.Design/methodology/approachThe authors utilize frame analysis to investigate how DC is framed in media work using 30 semi-structured interviews as data with journalists in Finland.FindingsThe authors identify three main frames of DC in the context of media work. The individual attitude frame emphasizes employees' attitudes toward DC, the team-level support frame underlines the need for support in the work community and the organizational-level practice frame highlights enablers of and organizations' requirements for digital competence.Practical implicationsFirst, media workers' DC is necessary to enhance work efficiency and accomplish tasks and may be supported with supportive management practices. Second, the findings suggest that DC should be understood and analyzed as a multi-level issue. Third, the findings suggest that appropriate continuing education and study opportunities were needed. Besides formal arrangements for learning, informal contexts of learning are important.Originality/valueThe article contributes to media studies and studies on the digitalization of work by taking account of the organizational, team and individual levels in discussing digital competence in the news media sector.

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“…As there are few qualitative studies (e.g. Marta-Lazo et al, 2020;Estella, 2021) on DC, our study adds to this limited body of qualitative research in this field.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Framing digital competence in media work – The case of Finland

Parkatti

Саари

Tammelin

et al. 2022

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“…News efficacy. Drawing upon the "Future of Journalism Competencies" survey (Clark, 2014) and Estella (2021), this study asked respondents to evaluate their self-mastery of the following journalistic competence: (1) Commitment to Journalism and innovative spirit, (2) Rich contacts (sources, informants, peers, etc. ), (3) Good image and reputation in public, (4) Professional knowledge other than journalism, (5) Ability to integrate information, (6) Ability to record and edit videos, (7) Ability to tell stories through words, and (8) Ability to judge the value of news works.…”

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confidence: 99%

Is journalism just a job? Findings on journalists’ career motivation, news efficacy and news avoidance from structural equation modeling in China

Wang

2023

Journalism

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With the profound transformation of Chinese journalism under the commercialized trend of thoughts, there is a debate on whether Chinese journalists still maintain the public service ideal or just regard it simply as a job. In other words, is journalism a “vocation” or a “profession”? Therefore, it is necessary to conduct an empirical study on journalistic roles. Drawing on the self-determination theory, this study constructs a framework of “career motivation–news attitude” to build a bridge between role orientations and performance, in order to comprehensively understand the Chinese journalistic roles. In this study, a quota sampling survey ( n = 1000), multiple linear regression (MLR), and structural equation modeling (SEM) are used to examine the influence of advocacy and utilitarian motivations on news efficacy and news avoidance, corresponding to news production and consumption attitudes. Furthermore, the study divides the journalistic roles in China into four categories: purposive advocate professionals, dedicated advocate professionals, workaday journalists, and adrift journalists. The results show that advocacy motivation, or the public service ideal, is more significant than utilitarian motivation in the journalistic roles. The former is associated with higher news efficacy and lower news avoidance, while the latter is only associated with higher news avoidance. The study also discusses the demographic factors of journalistic career motivations.

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“…Like their counterparts elsewhere, journalists in the Philippines have responded to the ways social media complicate the practice of journalism. Pauline Estella (2021) investigates how competencies of Filipino journalists have evolved in light of the challenges of digital populism and de-legitimation of journalists. Drawing from surveys and interviews, Estella develops the concept of journalistic competency that com-bines technological adeptness, critical reflexivity, mobile reporting, awareness of Global South conditions and commitment to the public role of journalism.…”

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Introduction: The dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: legacies and potentials

Lorenzana¹,

Soriano²

2021

Preprint

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This special issue brings together six research articles that speak to the dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines, a country firmly located in the global geography of the digital economy and an early adopter and innovator in mobile communication. Increasingly, the rise of digital platforms is spurring on new business models and applications that find a wide range of appropriations in a developing economy with a high level of communication skills and a high level of inequality. These dynamics have, in turn, fuelled the popularity of social media and the populism that has gained international attention and, more critically, taken the country into uncharted political terrain. We introduce this Special Issue by taking stock of the legacies and potentials of digital communication in the country and highlighting how the articles sustain and extend past conversations. Drawing from the articles that cover a range of topics (entertainment, intimacy, labour, journalism and politics, scandals and pornography), we identify three overlapping themes that capture the socio-technical dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: (1) how digital communication is emplaced in material, social and structural conditions; (2) the potentials of networked publics and communication; and (3) the convertibility of capitals and emergence of new competencies. These dynamics and potentials point to the contradictions, continuities and changes that relate to Philippine modernity in the context of global digital capitalism.

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Digital populism, digital newswork and the concept of journalistic competence: the Philippine condition

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Framing digital competence in media work – The case of Finland

Framing digital competence in media work – The case of Finland

Is journalism just a job? Findings on journalists’ career motivation, news efficacy and news avoidance from structural equation modeling in China

Introduction: The dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: legacies and potentials

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