When You Can’t Rely on Public or Private: Using the Ethnographic Self as Resource

Munnik, Michael

doi:10.1057/9781137541949_10

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“…This method, which is still not widely adopted because of access issues (Hammersley and Atkinson, 2007), allowed us to look closely at the series’ production and document the dialectics of the intersectional othering taking place on set and the strategies adopted in response by Palestinian creative workers. It is worth mentioning that obtaining access to a cultural industry’s production setting is not easy (Munnik, 2016: 147). Three months before the beginning of the shooting of Fauda ’s second season, we tried to reach the creators of the series with no success.…”

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Resisting subalternity: Palestinian mimicry and passing in the Israeli cultural industries

Jamal

Lavie

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores the complexity of minority creative workers in the media industry. It challenges the common notion in the literature that minority creative workers are fully submissive to the dominant power structure and examines whether such workers could still be conceived as active agents by resisting submission and marginalization even when they cannot influence their own representation in hegemonic media texts. To answer this question, it explores the performances of minority creative workers in a hegemonic cultural industry. To determine whether one can speak of subaltern agency and, if possible, examine how it manifests itself in reality, it addresses the daily performances of Palestinian creative workers during the production of the second season of the Israeli television series, Fauda. Observations conducted during production demonstrate that since in such contexts minority creative workers cannot avoid being projected in negative roles in the media text, they adopt creative subversive practices of passing and transgressive mimicry, resisting full compliance with the production, without endangering their own position. By doing so, the article contributes not only to the emerging field of creative entrepreneurship in cultural production, but also enables determination of common practices of creative subversion in the cultural industries.

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Resisting subalternity: Palestinian mimicry and passing in the Israeli cultural industries

Jamal

Lavie

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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“…When I began to attend the meetings, I quickly realized that my role as one of the 'developers' created a more collegial, and thus more trustworthy, relationship with the journalists than a fly-onthe-wall set-up would have provided. During the process, I utilized the 'ethnographic self' technique (Munnik 2015); I openly revealed to other developers that I had no journalistic training and offered them suggestions that were more or less 'out of the box' in relation to their daily journalistic working practices. Some were based on my personal experiences as an audience member, but more often, they were connected to my professional knowledge on new media and to my theoretical understanding of the roles of PSM.…”

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Towards nuanced universality: Developing a concept bible for public service online news production

Hokka

2018

European Journal of Communication

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With the advent of popular social media platforms, news journalism has been forced to re-evaluate its relation to its audience. This applies also for public service media (PSM) that increasingly has to prove its utility through audience ratings. This ethnographic study explores a particular project, the development of 'concept bible' for the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE's online news; it is an attempt to solve these challenges through new journalistic practices. The study introduces the concept of 'nuanced universality', which means that audience groups' different kinds of needs are taken into account on news production in order to strengthen all people's ability to be part of society. On a more general level, the article claims that despite its commercial origins, audience segmentation can be transformed into a method that helps revise PSM principles into practices suitable for the digital media environment.

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“…1 For eight years, I worked in public broadcasting in Canada. The newsroom I worked in adopted a public journalism campaign in the mid-2000s, conducting demographic analysis of the city, comparing this analysis with the categories of voices present in our coverage, and actively cultivating source relationships with categories that were absent from that coverage (Munnik 2016). Even prior to this experiment, producers insisted on the use of "real people" as a valuable addition to stories.…”

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Answering for Islam: Journalistic and Islamic Conceptions of Authority

Munnik

2019

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Media representations of Muslims in Britain have often disappointed both faith practitioners and scholars. Imputed failings include distorting beliefs or practices, essentialising the faith, and amplifying voices that are not representative of Islam. This last factor hinges on questions of authority: what journalists and Muslims recognise as authority can differ in important ways. Drawing on studies of journalism practice, prior professional experience, and ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews in Scotland, I discuss the conventional preference among journalists for "official sources" and the problems this can present in terms of hierarchy in Islam. I contrast this with a less-studied imperative, also present in newsrooms, for "real people". This category matches well with Islam's decentralised tradition and presents an opportunity to understand how different kinds of sources are presented in media coverage. It is possible for journalists to ensure that these differing claims to authority are represented properly, though this requires knowledge and responsibility.

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When You Can’t Rely on Public or Private: Using the Ethnographic Self as Resource

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Resisting subalternity: Palestinian mimicry and passing in the Israeli cultural industries

Resisting subalternity: Palestinian mimicry and passing in the Israeli cultural industries

Towards nuanced universality: Developing a concept bible for public service online news production

Answering for Islam: Journalistic and Islamic Conceptions of Authority

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