Reviewing as Post-Institutional Cultural Production

Jaakkola, Maarit

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84848-4_3

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“…As social media book reviewers define their standards of evaluation and recommendation within the community (Jaakkola, 2018, p. 13) they also constantly add value to the function of the community as cultural gatekeeper. These findings are similar to that of other studies in the field (Jaakkola, 2019, 2022, pp. 152–170; Steiner, 2010, p. 489), and demonstrate the strong tendency of the transformational communication patterns that social media imprint on the review genre.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…The explorative analysis also provides potential for further studies. Due to the effects that Instagram has on the review genre—the platform provides and supports transformational communication patterns that influence different local formations within a global community (Jaakkola, 2019, 2022; Thomas, 2021)—further research is needed to analyze additional local reviewer or Bookstagram communities for supplementary evaluation and comparison. Moreover, further work needs to be done on the everyday and consumer cultural logic (Jaakkola, 2018, p. 15; Kammer, 2015, p. 874; Kristensen & From, 2017, p. 102; McWhirter, 2017, p. 138; Steiner, 2010, p. 475) of reviewing on social media, and Instagram in particular.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Review approach Users' strategies, intentions, policies, etc. for reviews; attempts to address the community; approach of vernacular reviewing (Jaakkola, 2018(Jaakkola, , 2019(Jaakkola, , 2020(Jaakkola, , 2022 Description of main communicative forms for reviewing (i.e. textual or visual); strategies, and intentions for reviewing; community-related communication; modes of expression of reviewing in the sample material.…”

Section: Platform Affordancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…My argument proceeds as follows: First, I discuss the theoretical foundation of the study by presenting a literature review of relevant theories on the transformation of online book reviewing on digital and social media, and the concept of ''vernacular reviewing'' in particular (Jaakkola, 2018(Jaakkola, , 2019(Jaakkola, , 2020(Jaakkola, , 2022. Second, I briefly describe the German-language reviewer sphere on Instagram.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How to Talk About Books on Social Media: The German-Language Social Media Reviewer Sphere on Instagram

Stollfuß

2023

Sage Open

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This explorative study investigates how book readers engage on Instagram within the platform-based reviewer sphere as part of the Bookstagram community. The communicative patterns and practices of online book reviews align with the communicative infrastructure of social media. The aim is to define and describe the communicative patterns and practices of online book reviewing under the changing conditions in a social media environment. The article analyzes a sample of the German-language reviewer sphere on Instagram in order to investigate a local formation of a global community. Based on a content analysis of posts ( N = 514) from three thematic hashtags—#rezension (“review”), #buch (“book”), and #bookstagramgermany—, I will discuss the types of reviewers and analyze their content by the categories of platform affordances, imagery, textual forms, and review approach. The article contributes to the research of online book reviewing within communication and media studies by providing insight into the communication and review approaches of a niche-structured Instagram community.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Platform Affordancementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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How to Talk About Books on Social Media: The German-Language Social Media Reviewer Sphere on Instagram

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2023

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“…The inclusion of the elements of proactivity is part of the cultural (inter)mediation process that constitutes cultural journalism (Jaakkola, 2022b). Reactive reporting may conceive of the field of culture as a mere production of cultural goods for consumption, whilst proactivity involves a broader function of being a system of values, norms, traditions, and symbols.…”

Section: Proactivity and Cultural Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reporting like there was no pandemic

Jaakkola

2023

MedieKultur

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both a widespread public health crisis and a global economic crisis, disrupting every aspect of our lives, health, education, jobs, and social life. To provide the public with trustworthy and continuously updated information and stories during uncertain times, newsrooms have made pandemic coverage a priority. Conducting a content analysis of Norwegian news and debate programs on radio and television throughout 2020, we found that the frames most dominant in news broadcasts were the least used frames in debate programs, and vice versa. Overall, the five most common frames were societal consequences, economic consequences, medical risk, government measures, social behaviour, and risk. This suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was contextualized as an economic and social crisis as well as a health crisis. However, the lack of politicization, conflict and responsibility frames, suggests media coverage missed a critical perspective.

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Reading Bestsellers

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Sedo

2023

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Readers are essential agents in the production of bestsellers but bestsellers are not essential to readers' leisure pursuits. The starting point in this Element is readers' opinions about and their uses of bestselling fiction in English. Readers' relationships with bestsellers bring into view their practices of book selection, and their navigation of book recommendation culture. Based on three years of original research (2019–2021), including a quantitative survey with readers, interviews with social media influencers, and qualitative work with international Gen Z readers in a private Instagram chat space, the authors highlight three core actions contemporary multimodal readers make– choosing, connecting, and responding– in a transmedia era where on- and offline media practices co-exist. The contemporary multimodal reader, or the MMR3, they argue, illustrates the pervasiveness of recommendation culture, reliance on trusted others, and an ethic of responsiveness.

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Reviewing as Post-Institutional Cultural Production

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How to Talk About Books on Social Media: The German-Language Social Media Reviewer Sphere on Instagram

How to Talk About Books on Social Media: The German-Language Social Media Reviewer Sphere on Instagram

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