Negotiating Genre and New Media for STEM News

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12909360
AutoresJena Barchas-Lichtenstein (0000-0002-2076-3326, New America, autor de correspondencia), John Fraser (0000-0001-8383-0699, New America), Patti Parson, Rebecca Joy Norlander (0000-0002-2817-8869, New America), Julia Griffin (0000-0002-0036-3210), Nsikan Akpan (0000-0003-0364-4939), Travis Daub, Jenny Marder, Clay Raine, Su‐Jen Roberts (0000-0002-3119-2063, New America), M C Boulter, Teresa Carey (National Human Genome Research Institute), Vanessa Dennis, Erica Hendry, Kristin Hugo, Saher Khan, Ilayda Kocak, Laura Santhanam, Rashmi Shivni (0000-0002-7690-2989, United States Food and Drug Administration), Lora Strum, Leigh Anne Tiffany (0000-0002-7998-3948), Andrew Wagner (0000-0002-9434-0780)
Año2019
Volumen14
Número6
Páginas643-663
Fecha de publicación2019-06-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2019.1631711
OpenAlexW2955203503
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas48

This article—co-authored by a transdisciplinary team of social scientists and journalists in the United States—traces changes to the news landscape in recent decades, and asks: How are legacy media producers grappling with these new realities? As part of a four-year collaboration on young adult news consumption, we take a participatory action research approach to this question, tacking back and forth between newsroom concepts and anthropological ones in pursuit of a synthesis that strengthens both. Starting from anthropological frameworks of participation, the authors argue that broadcast videos typically position their audiences as overhearers rather than interlocutors, while the reverse is true for social media, and that these tendencies shape audience expectations. We find that many audiences have what we call poetic motivations: they are drawn to stories that exemplify their genre. For example, the participatory nature of social media genres translates well to a more candid style that can incorporate live questions and other direct participation. The study reported here focuses on STEM news, but many of the findings apply to news production in general. Our reflective methods can also be applied more widely in the field of journalism to synthesize perspectives from theory and practice

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