Jannie Møller Hartley
Biographic Data
| ID | 283620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jannie Møller Hartley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jannie Møller |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartley |
| SIGNATURE | HARTLEY J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5784-2864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
“Argh! The World Doesn't Fit the Model!”: Small Acts of Worldmaking in Data Annotation for News Media
This article examines how data annotation in news organizations serves as a site of friction and world-making, shaping how AI systems categorize and interpret journalism. Through an ethnographic study in a Danish news organization, we identify three interrelated sites of friction: taxonomic constructions, organizational infrastructures, and aspirational realities. Rather than a neutral task, annotation is a contested process where journalistic ep…
I must have clicked on something” – Users ́ Experiences and Evaluations of News Recommender Systems
Digital media revolution and stratificational inertia: A historical study of media usage and sociopolitical stratification in the age of social media
DataPublics
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on empirical data from US and UK as well as the unique example of Nordic countries where there is a high level of confidence in state and media institutions, this book shows how platforms and algorithms are transforming media, journalism and audiences’ civic practices today.
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
This book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics' by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies. The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic values, discourses and practices, open…
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News
This article presents the results of an in-depth ethnographic study of the development of a personalization algorithm in a large regional news organization in Denmark. Drawing on the concept of sociotechnical assemblage, we argue that in the process the news organization moves from distributing news to the users as segments of consuming collectives to algorithmically constructing individual users as aggregated data points. Second, we show how per…
The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution
The platformisation of news has triggered public and scholarly concern regarding the impact of platforms on the news industry and, more importantly, platforms’ potential threat to ideals of autonomy and economic independence. Despite ongoing debate and the increasing investment in technologies for automated distribution and artificial intelligence, the material infrastructures of the news media sustaining this artificial intelligence-driven news …
Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News
In this introduction, we draw together the articles in the special issue on the platformization of news, highlighting that the articles contribute by answering two central questions. First, what is the extent of contemporary journalists and news organizations’ platform dependence, and how does this vary according to geographic context, organizational resources, and other factors? Second, what is the nature of journalism’s platform dependency? Pla…
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
Stratified Citizens: Conceptualizing Civic Capital in Mediatized Societies
While there are many ways to understand citizenship in terms of what constituents (should) do, think, feel, and say, there is a felt absence of a perspective that factors in the social reasons for how people enact citizenship and the role of media in enacting such forms of citizenship. Based on a review of key studies of citizenship in audience research and political science, this study introduces a Bourdieusian perspective to examine citizenship…
Ethics on the Beat: An Analysis of Ethical Breaches Across News Beats from 1999 to 2019
This article examines press ethics across different news beats. Traditionally, studies of news beats have focused on the development, output or routines of a particular news beat, but few studies have focused on press ethics. In Denmark, the debate on press ethics began in the 1930s and has often focused on the crime beat. Today, the “Advisory rules of sound press ethics” apply to all content produced by leading news media and are under the super…
Researching publics in datafied societies: Insights from four approaches to the concept of ‘publics’ and a (hybrid) research agenda
Datafication has become an all-encompassing infiltrator in societal processes, among other the formation of publics and the actors that support such processes (i.e. journalism and information technologies). This article reviews four approaches to the study of public formation. These are (1) public and civic connections, (2) issue publics, (3) networked publics and (4) algorithmic publics. The review is a point of departure to conceptually discuss…
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life
This article explores yet another paradox - aside from the privacy paradox - related to the datafication of media: citizens trust least the media they use most It investigates the role that daily life plays in shaping the trust that citizens place in datafied media. The study reveals five sets of heuristics guiding the trust assessments of citizens: (1) characteristics of media organisations, (2) old media standards, (3) context of use and purpos…
Activist-journalism and the Norm of Objectivity: Role Performance in the Reporting of the #MeToo Movement in Denmark and Sweden
This article presents the results of a study examining the self-perceived roles of journalists covering the #MeToo movement in Denmark and Sweden. Drawing on qualitative interviews with journalists, editors and activists (N = 20) and participant observation at various #MeToo events, we examine the professional journalism cultures underpinning differences in the coverage and the broader public debate spurred by the movement in the two countries. T…
Trust, Disconnection, Minimizing risk and Apathy: A Compass of Coping Tactics in Datafied Everyday Lives
This paper investigates how audiences are coping with digital platforms in their everyday lives. Empirically grounded in focus groups carried out in Denmark with a total of 34 participants of different ages and educational backgrounds, we present the results of an analysis of audiences’ coping tactics in relation to tracking data, collecting data and mining data. Based on the analysis, we find four overall tactics: coping by absence, coping by tr…
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms, Princeton, 2020
Within the field of journalism research, there has been an academic interest in how news is both produced and selected by journalists.Hence, a large body of literature has over the years documented a completely absent concern for the audiences inside the newsrooms, most famously documented in the newsroom study by Herbert Gans.He argued that "neither the journalists nor the business departments know how to enlarge the audience" (Gans, 1979, p. 21…
Small acts of engagement: Reconnecting productive audience practices with everyday agency
In this article, we develop the concept of small acts of engagement (SAOE) in a networked media environment as a conceptual framework to study specific audience practices and as an agenda for research on these practices. We define SAOE, such as liking, sharing, and commenting, as productive audience practices that require little investment and are intentionally more casual than the structural and laborious practices examined as types of produsage…
Beyond the Informed Citizen
This article presents an in-depth analysis of the narratives of everyday news engagement, and examines what news users perceive as the ideals, values and normative expectations surrounding their orientation to the 'public world'. While many studies have examined this orientation related to media consumption in the broad sense, fewer have investigated how public connection and civic experiences are related to a news users' normative ideals of news…
Interruption, Disruption or Intervention? A Stakeholder Analysis of Small Acts of Engagement in Content Flows
Emerging Trends in Small Acts of Audience Engagement and Interruptions of Content Flows
‘It’s Something Posh People Do’: Digital Distinction in Young People’s Cross-Media News Engagement
In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu’s field theory as an analytical framework, the article investigates how cultural capital (CC) operates in specific tastes and distastes for news genres, platforms and provide…
A Matter of Trust: Plagiarism, fake sources and paradigm repair in the Danish news media
In December of 2015 two major journalistic scandals hit the Danish news media. The two scandals ran almost concurrently, which increased the media attention and was reflected in the coverage. In a time of diminishing trust in the news media these scandals represented a significant and acute credibility problem for the news media that were affected. Using paradigm repair theory coupled with a theory about transparency, this paper analyses which st…
When Homo Academicus meets Homo Journalisticus: An inter-field study of collaboration and conflict in the communication of scientific research
The longstanding tension between journalists and academics is explored by analysing data from qualitative interviews with 25 journalists and scientists using an analytical framework derived from Bourdieu’s field theory. The article empirically shows how journalism and science are both constructed around the opposition between knowledge (content) and communication (form). Based on the analysis of narratives in the communication processes between t…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
The Online Journalist Between Ideals and Audiences: Towards a (more) audience-driven and source-detached journalism
How do online journalists define themselves? Journalistic self-perception plays a big part in understanding developments in the practice of online journalism in newsrooms. This article presents an analysis of the self-perceptions of online journalists using the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu and data from empirical longitudinal observations based on ethnographic fieldwork in three Danish newsrooms. The analytical concepts “journalistic …
Small acts of engagement: Reconnecting productive audience practices with everyday agency
In this article, we develop the concept of small acts of engagement (SAOE) in a networked media environment as a conceptual framework to study specific audience practices and as an agenda for research on these practices. We define SAOE, such as liking, sharing, and commenting, as productive audience practices that require little investment and are intentionally more casual than the structural and laborious practices examined as types of produsage…
Activist-journalism and the Norm of Objectivity: Role Performance in the Reporting of the #MeToo Movement in Denmark and Sweden
This article presents the results of a study examining the self-perceived roles of journalists covering the #MeToo movement in Denmark and Sweden. Drawing on qualitative interviews with journalists, editors and activists (N = 20) and participant observation at various #MeToo events, we examine the professional journalism cultures underpinning differences in the coverage and the broader public debate spurred by the movement in the two countries. T…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News
In this introduction, we draw together the articles in the special issue on the platformization of news, highlighting that the articles contribute by answering two central questions. First, what is the extent of contemporary journalists and news organizations’ platform dependence, and how does this vary according to geographic context, organizational resources, and other factors? Second, what is the nature of journalism’s platform dependency? Pla…
Researching publics in datafied societies: Insights from four approaches to the concept of ‘publics’ and a (hybrid) research agenda
Datafication has become an all-encompassing infiltrator in societal processes, among other the formation of publics and the actors that support such processes (i.e. journalism and information technologies). This article reviews four approaches to the study of public formation. These are (1) public and civic connections, (2) issue publics, (3) networked publics and (4) algorithmic publics. The review is a point of departure to conceptually discuss…
A Matter of Trust: Plagiarism, fake sources and paradigm repair in the Danish news media
In December of 2015 two major journalistic scandals hit the Danish news media. The two scandals ran almost concurrently, which increased the media attention and was reflected in the coverage. In a time of diminishing trust in the news media these scandals represented a significant and acute credibility problem for the news media that were affected. Using paradigm repair theory coupled with a theory about transparency, this paper analyses which st…
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life
This article explores yet another paradox - aside from the privacy paradox - related to the datafication of media: citizens trust least the media they use most It investigates the role that daily life plays in shaping the trust that citizens place in datafied media. The study reveals five sets of heuristics guiding the trust assessments of citizens: (1) characteristics of media organisations, (2) old media standards, (3) context of use and purpos…
When Homo Academicus meets Homo Journalisticus: An inter-field study of collaboration and conflict in the communication of scientific research
The longstanding tension between journalists and academics is explored by analysing data from qualitative interviews with 25 journalists and scientists using an analytical framework derived from Bourdieu’s field theory. The article empirically shows how journalism and science are both constructed around the opposition between knowledge (content) and communication (form). Based on the analysis of narratives in the communication processes between t…
Trust, Disconnection, Minimizing risk and Apathy: A Compass of Coping Tactics in Datafied Everyday Lives
This paper investigates how audiences are coping with digital platforms in their everyday lives. Empirically grounded in focus groups carried out in Denmark with a total of 34 participants of different ages and educational backgrounds, we present the results of an analysis of audiences’ coping tactics in relation to tracking data, collecting data and mining data. Based on the analysis, we find four overall tactics: coping by absence, coping by tr…
Stratified Citizens: Conceptualizing Civic Capital in Mediatized Societies
While there are many ways to understand citizenship in terms of what constituents (should) do, think, feel, and say, there is a felt absence of a perspective that factors in the social reasons for how people enact citizenship and the role of media in enacting such forms of citizenship. Based on a review of key studies of citizenship in audience research and political science, this study introduces a Bourdieusian perspective to examine citizenship…
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms, Princeton, 2020
Within the field of journalism research, there has been an academic interest in how news is both produced and selected by journalists.Hence, a large body of literature has over the years documented a completely absent concern for the audiences inside the newsrooms, most famously documented in the newsroom study by Herbert Gans.He argued that "neither the journalists nor the business departments know how to enlarge the audience" (Gans, 1979, p. 21…
Beyond the Informed Citizen
This article presents an in-depth analysis of the narratives of everyday news engagement, and examines what news users perceive as the ideals, values and normative expectations surrounding their orientation to the 'public world'. While many studies have examined this orientation related to media consumption in the broad sense, fewer have investigated how public connection and civic experiences are related to a news users' normative ideals of news…
The Online Journalist Between Ideals and Audiences: Towards a (more) audience-driven and source-detached journalism
How do online journalists define themselves? Journalistic self-perception plays a big part in understanding developments in the practice of online journalism in newsrooms. This article presents an analysis of the self-perceptions of online journalists using the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu and data from empirical longitudinal observations based on ethnographic fieldwork in three Danish newsrooms. The analytical concepts “journalistic …
Chris Paterson & David Domingo (red.): Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production
Når forfatterne bag bogen Making Online News i undertitlen har valgt at betegne bogen "The Ethnography", er det vaerd at bemaerke ordet "The".Den bestemte form Etnografien er modig, men måske lige praecis i dette tilfaelde velvalgt, fordi der i øjeblikket naermest kun findes én af disse samlende etnografier om produktion af netnyheder, der på komparativ vis giver et globalt indtryk af netjournalistikken, som den ser ud i dag.Dog findes der flere …
Chris Paterson & David Domingo (red.): Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production
Når forfatterne bag bogen Making Online News i undertitlen har valgt at betegne bogen "The Ethnography", er det vaerd at bemaerke ordet "The".Den bestemte form Etnografien er modig, men måske lige praecis i dette tilfaelde velvalgt, fordi der i øjeblikket naermest kun findes én af disse samlende etnografier om produktion af netnyheder, der på komparativ vis giver et globalt indtryk af netjournalistikken, som den ser ud i dag.Dog findes der flere …
The Online Journalist Between Ideals and Audiences: Towards a (more) audience-driven and source-detached journalism
How do online journalists define themselves? Journalistic self-perception plays a big part in understanding developments in the practice of online journalism in newsrooms. This article presents an analysis of the self-perceptions of online journalists using the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu and data from empirical longitudinal observations based on ethnographic fieldwork in three Danish newsrooms. The analytical concepts “journalistic …
When Homo Academicus meets Homo Journalisticus: An inter-field study of collaboration and conflict in the communication of scientific research
The longstanding tension between journalists and academics is explored by analysing data from qualitative interviews with 25 journalists and scientists using an analytical framework derived from Bourdieu’s field theory. The article empirically shows how journalism and science are both constructed around the opposition between knowledge (content) and communication (form). Based on the analysis of narratives in the communication processes between t…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
Interruption, Disruption or Intervention? A Stakeholder Analysis of Small Acts of Engagement in Content Flows
Emerging Trends in Small Acts of Audience Engagement and Interruptions of Content Flows
‘It’s Something Posh People Do’: Digital Distinction in Young People’s Cross-Media News Engagement
In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu’s field theory as an analytical framework, the article investigates how cultural capital (CC) operates in specific tastes and distastes for news genres, platforms and provide…
A Matter of Trust: Plagiarism, fake sources and paradigm repair in the Danish news media
In December of 2015 two major journalistic scandals hit the Danish news media. The two scandals ran almost concurrently, which increased the media attention and was reflected in the coverage. In a time of diminishing trust in the news media these scandals represented a significant and acute credibility problem for the news media that were affected. Using paradigm repair theory coupled with a theory about transparency, this paper analyses which st…
Small acts of engagement: Reconnecting productive audience practices with everyday agency
In this article, we develop the concept of small acts of engagement (SAOE) in a networked media environment as a conceptual framework to study specific audience practices and as an agenda for research on these practices. We define SAOE, such as liking, sharing, and commenting, as productive audience practices that require little investment and are intentionally more casual than the structural and laborious practices examined as types of produsage…
Beyond the Informed Citizen
This article presents an in-depth analysis of the narratives of everyday news engagement, and examines what news users perceive as the ideals, values and normative expectations surrounding their orientation to the 'public world'. While many studies have examined this orientation related to media consumption in the broad sense, fewer have investigated how public connection and civic experiences are related to a news users' normative ideals of news…
Activist-journalism and the Norm of Objectivity: Role Performance in the Reporting of the #MeToo Movement in Denmark and Sweden
This article presents the results of a study examining the self-perceived roles of journalists covering the #MeToo movement in Denmark and Sweden. Drawing on qualitative interviews with journalists, editors and activists (N = 20) and participant observation at various #MeToo events, we examine the professional journalism cultures underpinning differences in the coverage and the broader public debate spurred by the movement in the two countries. T…
Trust, Disconnection, Minimizing risk and Apathy: A Compass of Coping Tactics in Datafied Everyday Lives
This paper investigates how audiences are coping with digital platforms in their everyday lives. Empirically grounded in focus groups carried out in Denmark with a total of 34 participants of different ages and educational backgrounds, we present the results of an analysis of audiences’ coping tactics in relation to tracking data, collecting data and mining data. Based on the analysis, we find four overall tactics: coping by absence, coping by tr…
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms, Princeton, 2020
Within the field of journalism research, there has been an academic interest in how news is both produced and selected by journalists.Hence, a large body of literature has over the years documented a completely absent concern for the audiences inside the newsrooms, most famously documented in the newsroom study by Herbert Gans.He argued that "neither the journalists nor the business departments know how to enlarge the audience" (Gans, 1979, p. 21…
Ethics on the Beat: An Analysis of Ethical Breaches Across News Beats from 1999 to 2019
This article examines press ethics across different news beats. Traditionally, studies of news beats have focused on the development, output or routines of a particular news beat, but few studies have focused on press ethics. In Denmark, the debate on press ethics began in the 1930s and has often focused on the crime beat. Today, the “Advisory rules of sound press ethics” apply to all content produced by leading news media and are under the super…
Researching publics in datafied societies: Insights from four approaches to the concept of ‘publics’ and a (hybrid) research agenda
Datafication has become an all-encompassing infiltrator in societal processes, among other the formation of publics and the actors that support such processes (i.e. journalism and information technologies). This article reviews four approaches to the study of public formation. These are (1) public and civic connections, (2) issue publics, (3) networked publics and (4) algorithmic publics. The review is a point of departure to conceptually discuss…
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life
This article explores yet another paradox - aside from the privacy paradox - related to the datafication of media: citizens trust least the media they use most It investigates the role that daily life plays in shaping the trust that citizens place in datafied media. The study reveals five sets of heuristics guiding the trust assessments of citizens: (1) characteristics of media organisations, (2) old media standards, (3) context of use and purpos…
DataPublics
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on empirical data from US and UK as well as the unique example of Nordic countries where there is a high level of confidence in state and media institutions, this book shows how platforms and algorithms are transforming media, journalism and audiences’ civic practices today.
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
This book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics' by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies. The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic values, discourses and practices, open…
Designing What’s News: An Ethnography of a Personalization Algorithm and the Data-Driven (Re)Assembling of the News
This article presents the results of an in-depth ethnographic study of the development of a personalization algorithm in a large regional news organization in Denmark. Drawing on the concept of sociotechnical assemblage, we argue that in the process the news organization moves from distributing news to the users as segments of consuming collectives to algorithmically constructing individual users as aggregated data points. Second, we show how per…
The Infrastructure of News: Negotiating Infrastructural Capture and Autonomy in Data-Driven News Distribution
The platformisation of news has triggered public and scholarly concern regarding the impact of platforms on the news industry and, more importantly, platforms’ potential threat to ideals of autonomy and economic independence. Despite ongoing debate and the increasing investment in technologies for automated distribution and artificial intelligence, the material infrastructures of the news media sustaining this artificial intelligence-driven news …
Autonomies and Dependencies: Shifting Configurations of Power in the Platformization of News
In this introduction, we draw together the articles in the special issue on the platformization of news, highlighting that the articles contribute by answering two central questions. First, what is the extent of contemporary journalists and news organizations’ platform dependence, and how does this vary according to geographic context, organizational resources, and other factors? Second, what is the nature of journalism’s platform dependency? Pla…
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
Stratified Citizens: Conceptualizing Civic Capital in Mediatized Societies
While there are many ways to understand citizenship in terms of what constituents (should) do, think, feel, and say, there is a felt absence of a perspective that factors in the social reasons for how people enact citizenship and the role of media in enacting such forms of citizenship. Based on a review of key studies of citizenship in audience research and political science, this study introduces a Bourdieusian perspective to examine citizenship…
Digital media revolution and stratificational inertia: A historical study of media usage and sociopolitical stratification in the age of social media
“Argh! The World Doesn't Fit the Model!”: Small Acts of Worldmaking in Data Annotation for News Media
This article examines how data annotation in news organizations serves as a site of friction and world-making, shaping how AI systems categorize and interpret journalism. Through an ethnographic study in a Danish news organization, we identify three interrelated sites of friction: taxonomic constructions, organizational infrastructures, and aspirational realities. Rather than a neutral task, annotation is a contested process where journalistic ep…
Social Media and Politics (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Media Studies and Communication (14 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Journalism (7 works) · Law (7 works)