2014
DOI: 10.2478/nor-2014-0017
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Rethinking Photojournalism: The Changing Work Practices and Professionalism of Photojournalists in the Digital Age

Abstract: Public service, ethics, objectivity, autonomy and immediacy are still often considered the core values of professional journalism. However, photojournalistic work has confronted historic changes since the advent of digitalization in the late 1980s. Professional photojournalists have been caught manipulating news images, video production has become a major part of news photographers' work, and newspapers freely publish photographs and videos taken by the general public.The present article examines how news phot… Show more

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“…As Jenni Mäenpää (2014) notes, photojournalist Klavs Bo Christensen contested a Picture of the Year decision against him after judges decided, upon seeing a RAW file, that too much editing had been done. This decision, based on a conventional understanding of photography, treats RAW files as digital negatives, in a view that is increasingly contested.…”
Section: Communities Of Practice and The Computational In Digital Phomentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As Jenni Mäenpää (2014) notes, photojournalist Klavs Bo Christensen contested a Picture of the Year decision against him after judges decided, upon seeing a RAW file, that too much editing had been done. This decision, based on a conventional understanding of photography, treats RAW files as digital negatives, in a view that is increasingly contested.…”
Section: Communities Of Practice and The Computational In Digital Phomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This decision, based on a conventional understanding of photography, treats RAW files as digital negatives, in a view that is increasingly contested. Christensen, as both Mäenpää (2014) and Solaroli (2015) attest, said that "a RAW file […] has nothing to do with reality and I do not think you can judge the finished images and the use of Photoshop by looking at the RAW file." Although this statement seems counterintuitive from the imaginary-darkroom perspective, from a computational perspective it becomes understandable.…”
Section: Communities Of Practice and The Computational In Digital Phomentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, while their social use increases, their documentary value, as evidence, in the communication media decreases given the increased possibilities for tweaking or photo alteration that easily accessible digital tools nowadays make possible (Mäenpää, 2014).…”
Section: Social Networking and Imagementioning
confidence: 99%