Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking
A postfoundational perspective
Editors
This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they have now become sedimented as the common-sense baseline for everyday newsmaking routines. The issue for newsmakers is not ‘whether’ to engage with readers and users, but ‘how’ to engage with them. The contributions span a wide range of newsmaking contexts, including analytics-based online headline testing, the communication efforts of a Brussels-based free marketeer thinktank, collaborative science journalism and rapidly changing journalistic sourcing and writing routines from legacy to social media. Together they argue for a postfoundational perspective, which observes how participation, engagement and collaboration have emerged as a ‘foundation’ which is no longer questioned, but which can lead to new tensions in newsmaking. As such, the book provides inspirational reading for anyone in the social sciences and humanities who is interested in understanding how the ubiquity of participation, engagement and collaboration in the making of the news impacts on issues of power, transparency and control in the twenty-first century.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 94] 2021. vi, 186 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Painting the postfoundational picture: Participation, engagement and collaboration as a new foundation for newsmakingJana Declercq, Felicitas Macgilchrist, Astrid Vandendaele and Geert Jacobs | pp. 1–16
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Chapter 2. Online headline testing at a Belgian broadsheet: A postfoundational perspective on how news professionals ‘sell’ contentAstrid Vandendaele, Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs and Sofie Verkest | pp. 17–42
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Chapter 3. “It is, perhaps more than ever before, a matter of participation”: Ontological tension and boundary work in a free trade blogThomas Jacobs and Geert Jacobs | pp. 43–66
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Chapter 4. “If it wasn’t absolutely true, it couldn’t be published”: On boundaries in collaborative journalismSofie Verkest and Geert Jacobs | pp. 67–98
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Chapter 5. “Somehow I'm Always Writing”: On the meaning of transdisciplinary analyses of text production in media changeDaniel Perrin | pp. 99–128
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Chapter 6. Journalism now: Central and marginal aspects of news craftColleen Cotter and William J. Drummond | pp. 129–150
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Chapter 7. Journalists’ use of social media: A paradigmatic shift towards restoring audience trust through wide-ranging engagementLauri Haapanen | pp. 151–174
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Chapter 8. Epilogue: Newsmaking on participatory sociotechnical foundationsFelicitas Macgilchrist, Jana Declercq, Astrid Vandendaele and Geert Jacobs | pp. 175–184
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Index | pp. 191–192
“This volume is timely, focused and inspirational. It offers an intellectually rich, methodologically sound, and well-argued text, written and edited in a clear and reader-friendly manner. It constitutes a welcome addition to the fields of pragmatics, media and communication studies.”
Jun Chen, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, In Journal of Pragmatics, 192 (2022)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics