Journalism’s Memory Work

Zelizer, Barbie; Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren

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“…Engagement, in this regard, is difficult to capture in terms of its spatiotemporal complexities. Memory, for instance, is a social, emotional form of engagement that occurs at non-linear space-times (Zelizer and Tenenboim-Weinblatt 2014), while habit is an autonomous, individual behavioural form of engagement that tends to follow strict spatiotemporal patterns (Peters and Schrøder 2018). Moreover, engagement is not only something shaped in certain spaces and across certain times-the inverse is also the case.…”

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“…Engagement conditions how space-time itself is experienced. To give but a few examples, engagement with the news has been shown to: help define generations and elicit their history (Zelizer and Tenenboim-Weinblatt 2014); engender feelings of societal stasis (nothing ever changes) or radical change (everything does) (Keightley and Downey 2018); and shape feelings of safety or threat in particular regions or places (Romer, Jamieson, and Aday 2003). In other words, the spatiotemporal dimension of engagement is central to a comprehensive appreciation of how audiences experience this.…”

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(Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with News

2020

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Audience engagement has become a key concept in contemporary discussions on how news companies relate to the public and create sustainable business models. These discussions are irrevocably tied to practices of monitoring, harvesting and analyzing audience behaviours with metrics, which is increasingly becoming the new currency of the media economy. This article argues this growing tendency to equate engagement to behavioural analytics, and study it primarily through quantifiable data, is limiting. In response, we develop a heuristic theory of audience engagement with news comprising four dimensions-the technicalbehavioural, emotional, normative and spatiotemporal-and explicate these in terms of different relations of engagement between human-to-self, human-to-human, human-to-content, human-to-machine, and machine-to-machine. Paradoxically, this model comprises a specific theory of audience engagement while simultaneously making visible that constructing a theory of audience engagement is an impossible task. The article concludes by articulating methodological premises, which future empirical research on audience engagement should consider.

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Section: The Spatiotemporal Dimension Of Audience Engagementmentioning

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Section: The Spatiotemporal Dimension Of Audience Engagementmentioning

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(Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with News

2020

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“…However, while it is evident that news discourses draw upon the past to make sense of the present (Black 2015(Black , 2018Zandbwerg et al 2012), closer examination of the temporal construction of news can reveal a past-present dynamic (Tenenboim-Weinblatt 2016), from which 'The past offers a point of comparison, an opportunity for analogy, an invitation to nostalgia, [and] a redress to earlier events' (Zelizer 2008c, 384). As a consequence, it is the 'effects' of temporality in news narratives which underscores journalism's 'memory-work' (Zelizer 2008csee also Edkins 2003Hook 2012;White 2000).…”

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Retroactive causation and the temporal construction of news: contingency and necessity, content and form

Black

2020

Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory

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This article affords particular attention to the relationship between memory, the narrativization of news and its linear construction, conceived as journalism's 'memorywork'. In elaborating upon this 'work', it is proposed that the Hegelian notion of retroactive causation (as used by Slavoj Žižek) can examine how analyses of news journalists 'retroactively' employ the past in the temporal construction of news. In fact, such retroactive (re)ordering directs attention to the ways in which journalists contingently select 'a past' to confer meaning on the present. With regard to current literature, it is noted that a retroactive analysis can highlight two important dialectics within the practice of news journalism: 1) the relation between contingency and necessity; and, 2) the relation between content and form. Indeed, it is argued that this theoretical account offers a novel approach to examining the significance of memory in news journalism as well as the inconsistencies which underscore journalism's memory-work. It is in accordance with such inconsistency that broader reflections on time, temporality and our relations to the past can be made.

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“…While journalists' tweeting practices have received a fair amount of scholarly attention, the status of journalistic tweets as a cultural archive and its role in shaping collective memory, have gained less scholarly interest. Work on journalism and memory (Zelizer & Tenenboim-Weinblatt, 2014) has demonstrated how news production and products are involved in shaping collective memory. However, the potential contribution of journalists' social media activities to collective memory is being overlooked.…”

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Deletion Will Be My Epitaph: Jouranlists Deletion Practices on Twitter

Ringel

Davidson

2020

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This study seeks to understand the practice of the deletion of tweets by journalists while arguing that these uniquely reflect the contemporary fragility of archiving and journalism – two human enterprises central to societies’ ability to reflexively consider the past and present and democratically chart a future course. From the perspective of journalism as a profession, it argues that the study of tweet deletion is a means of examining the constraints under which journalists operate today including the occupational precarity and polarized public sphere with which they contend. From the web archival perspective, this study methodologically informs scholars who are relying on public tweets as a source for their research as well as other social actors – such as NGOs, activists, politicians, cultural producers – who rely on social media as a web archive in their public activities. It proposes to identify some of the voices that will be removed from this public square as it becomes a public archive and highlights the proactive ephemerality of journalistic social media content. Based on interviews conducted in the winter of 2019 with 17 journalists working in New York City, the study examines how journalists perceive the action of deleting their tweets and how they justify it.

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Journalism’s Memory Work

Cited by 51 publications

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(Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with News

(Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with News

Retroactive causation and the temporal construction of news: contingency and necessity, content and form

Deletion Will Be My Epitaph: Jouranlists Deletion Practices on Twitter

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