Metajournalistic discourse on the rise of gaming journalism

Perreault, Gregory; Vos, Tim P.

doi:10.1177/1461444819858695

Cited by 48 publications

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“…Metajournalistic discourse refers to the “site in which actors publicly engage in processes of establishing definitions, setting boundaries, and rendering judgments about journalism’s legitimacy” ( Carlson, 2016 , p. 350). As journalism’s institutional conversation, metajournalistic discourse primarily involves journalists talking about journalism ( G. Perreault & Vos, 2020 ; Vos & G. Perreault, 2020 ). Some of this discourse is outward facing.…”

Section: Metajournalistic Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Journalists on COVID-19 Journalism: Communication Ecology of Pandemic Reporting

Perreault

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists have the challenging task of gathering and distributing accurate information. Journalists exist as a part of an ecology in which their work influences and is influenced by the environment that surrounds it. Using the framework of disaster communication ecology, this study explores the discursive construction of journalism during the COVID-19 crisis. To understand this process in the field of journalism, we unpacked discourses concerning the coronavirus pandemic collected from interviews with journalists during the pandemic and from the U.S. journalism trade press using the Discourses of Journalism Database. Through discourse analysis, we discovered that during COVID-19 journalists discursively placed themselves in a responsible but vulnerable position within the communication ecology—not solely as a result of the pandemic but also from environmental conditions that long preceded it. Journalists found their reporting difficult during the pandemic and sought to mitigate the forces challenging their work as they sought to reverse the flow of misinformation.

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Section: Metajournalistic Discoursementioning

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Journalists on COVID-19 Journalism: Communication Ecology of Pandemic Reporting

Perreault

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Such discourse exists alongside and makes sense of news discourse by providing shared meanings about journalism as an epistemic practice. Such discourse can appear via news media outlets or in social media posts, trade journalists or, really, wherever journalists discuss journalism (Perreault and Vos 2020; Vos and Perreault 2020). Indeed, research has found that when it comes to writing about the “crisis” of journalism, journalists are the most dominant interpreters (Chyi et al, 2012).…”

Section: Journalism Labor In the Digital Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

“Why I quit journalism:” Former journalists’ advice giving as a way to regain control

2021

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This study offers a metajournalistic discourse analysis of first-person narratives by former journalists who quit the profession. It finds the former journalists felt powerless while in the industry. They expressed this by writing about feelings of being stuck in their “dream job,” haunted by an always-on mentality, strained mentally overall, and unsupported by the industry and colleagues. This article argues that with these texts, the former journalists regained a sense of power over the industry by offering advice to other journalists about leaving the industry. As with any profession, advice giving in journalism has always occurred in myriad interpersonal settings with a variety of actors, from educators to colleagues to friends. Mediated advice would occur within the relatively restricted realm of journalism trade press. Yet self-publishing digital platforms provide public outlets for advice giving, including to former journalists who have lost their news platform for speaking to the public.

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“…Numerous role tensions exist within journalism, in particular between the roles of scrutinizing watchdog and advocate for specific people and causes (Hanitzsch & Vos, 2018). This tension is reflected in mobile (Perreault & Stanfield, 2019), political (Perreault et al, 2019) and gaming (Perreault & Vos, 2020) journalism, but is perhaps more acutely reflected in the context of sports journalists who have been questioned for confusing roles of enthusiast and journalist (Boyle, 2006).…”

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Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism: Field Theory, Changing Boundaries and Evolving Technologies

Perreault

Bell

2020

Communication & Sport

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Long trivialized as the “toy department,” sports journalism nevertheless represents an enduring, and vital subfield within journalism. As with many niches of journalism, sports journalism has needed to adjust to changes resulting from the technology of the field. In particular, digital sports journalism faces pressure from adjacent fields, represented in team and player media, which perform many of the same tasks historically attributed to sports journalism. Through the lens of field theory, the present study reports on long-form interviews with 47 sports journalists who self-defined their work as digital journalism. This study argues that the perception of insurgents—team media that prior research demonstrated is often seen as a part of the field—has caused digital sports journalists to view their work as economically vital to the individual newsroom, but not topically essential to the journalistic field at large.

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Metajournalistic discourse on the rise of gaming journalism

Cited by 48 publications

References 39 publications

Journalists on COVID-19 Journalism: Communication Ecology of Pandemic Reporting

Journalists on COVID-19 Journalism: Communication Ecology of Pandemic Reporting

“Why I quit journalism:” Former journalists’ advice giving as a way to regain control

Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism: Field Theory, Changing Boundaries and Evolving Technologies

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