Seth C Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth C Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Texas, USA, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 886 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Doctors Fact-Check, Journalists Get Fact-Checked: Comparing Public Trust in Journalism and Healthcare
Public trust in journalism has fallen disconcertingly low. This study sets out to understand the news industry’s credibility crisis by comparing public perceptions of journalism with public perceptions of another institution facing similar trust challenges: healthcare. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 31 US adults, we find that although both healthcare and journalism face public distrust, members of the public generally tend to feel more trust…
Journalistic Moralities: Confronting Trump’s Lies and Racism
This chapter questions the degree to which a professionalized adherence to objectivity has led journalists to engage in false equivalencies rather than identify Donald Trump’s statements as being lies or racist. This rhetorical void allows powerful actors—such as Trump, polarizing pundits, and other partisans—to shape political lies into “facts” by maligning the press. Journalists have publicly debated how they should respond, with some prominent…
Where We Are: The Media and Political Context
This chapter examines the political and media environment during the presidency of Donald Trump. The first half considers how various political forces aligned to provide an opening for Trump. This includes the polarization of the voting public and a hardening of political identity. These conditions, in connection with global political trends, enabled a right-wing populist movement. The second half of the chapter considers the journalistic context…
Copyright Page
What Relevant Journalism Looks Like: Developing a Moral Voice
This chapter draws from across the book to make a case for how journalism can move forward. To rebuild its relevance, the journalistic community needs to adapt to a changed media culture in which its centrality is no longer guaranteed. When journalism becomes just one voice among others, it becomes necessary to question whether long-standing objectivity norms hamper its ability to make judgments and act morally. Journalists must turn toward relat…
The Press Fights Back: Reclaiming a Story of Relevance for the Press
This chapter analyzes a coordinated, collective effort in August 2018 to produce newspaper editorials defending journalism, which provides a rare public moment of focused attention on the press’s roles and identities. Hundreds of newspapers, from small-town newspapers to large metro dailies, defended the role of the press against the attacks of Donald Trump. In this response, journalists fall back to the grand—yet flailing—narrative placing journ…
The Trump Presidency: Four Years of Battling and Belittling the Press
This chapter focuses on Donald Trump’s relationship with the news media during his presidency, arguing that as Trump’s political power increased, his attacks on the press became more extreme. Trump simultaneously amplifies the influence of journalists when he calls them the “enemy of the people” and delegitimizes their authority by classifying “the media” as one of many established elite institutions hostile to the experience of everyday American…
The Trump Campaign: Outsized Coverage from the Press, Outsized Attacks on the Press
This chapter examines how the institutional trappings of political journalism allowed Trump to benefit from out-of-proportion coverage, particularly in the primary stages of the 2016 presidential contest. As the campaign progressed, press-bashing became a political performance that was an indelible part of Trump’s electoral success. Trump turned to political rallies and social media to communicate directly to voters, outside of journalist-control…
Dedication
News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture
Donald Trump’s rapid—and seemingly improbable—ascension from reality show star to polarizing president threw into question many assumptions about how our media and political worlds work. His habit of lying, history of racist statements, and disdain for conventions upended traditional relations between journalists and political elites. Taking an expansive view of the contemporary media and political environment during the Trump years, News After T…
Lack of trust in the news media, institutional weakness, and relational journalism as a potential way forward
Failure to Launch: Competing Institutional Logics, Intrapreneurship, and the Case of Chatbots
This article explores the institutional logics of intrapreneurial units, or groups within organizations that are designated to foster organizational innovation. Drawing on interviews with news intrapreneurs developing chatbots in news media organizations, this study shows that innovation can be stymied because of conflicting institutional logics. News intrapreneurs adopt a logic of experimentation, audience orientation, and efficiency-seeking, bu…
Boundary Work
This chapter offers a state-of-the-art analysis of boundary work and journalism. Physical boundaries dictate how space is understood and creates complex impediments. Boundary work is not a patrol mechanism for some intrinsic scientific value; it is the mechanism through which good science is defined. The boundary work framework is particularly well-suited to journalism given its mix of endurance and transitoriness. Journalists used boundary work …
Lack of trust in the news media, institutional weakness, and relational journalism as a potential way forward
Journalism Studies and its Core Commitments: The Making of a Communication Field
This article conceptualizes the distinctiveness of fields of scholarship within the discipline of communication through particular normative assumptions and identity practices defined here as commitments. A case study of journalism studies results in the postulation of six conceptual commitments that define its core ontological and epistemological premises: contextual sensitivity, holistic relationality, comparative inclination, normative awarene…
What kind of news gatekeepers do we want machines to be? Filter bubbles, fragmentation, and the normative dimensions of algorithmic recommendations
Mapping the Human–Machine Divide in Journalism
Trading zones, boundary objects, and the pursuit of news innovation: A case study of journalists and programmers
Amid growing calls for greater collaboration between journalism and computer programming, this article examines a salient case study that reveals processes of communication, exchange, and work production at the intersection of these social and occupational worlds. We focus on a key stage of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology partnership – namely, an online ‘Learning Lab’ through which 60 individuals sought to coordinate around a shared interest i…
Epilogue
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shown there is no single protocol for studying the boundaries of journalism, just as there is no single kind of journalism to study across the various contexts of media systems, political contexts and technological arrangements described in these pages. It also shows how boundary contests around actors and activities have emerge…
Boundaries of journalism: Professionalism, practices and participation
Introduction: The Many Boundaries of Journalism Matt Carlson Part I: Professionalism, Norms and Boundaries 1. Out of Bounds: Professional Norms as Boundary Markers Jane B. Singer 2. Nothing But The Truth: Redrafting the Journalistic Boundary of Verification Alfred Hermida 3. Divided we stand: Blurred Boundaries in Argentine Journalism Adriana Amado and Silvio Waisbord 4. The Wall Becomes a Curtain: Revisiting Journalism's News-Advertising Boundar…
Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation
Content Analysis and the Algorithmic Coder: What Computational Social Science Means for Traditional Modes of Media Analysis
To deal with ever-larger datasets, media scholars are increasingly using computational analytic methods. This article focuses on how the traditional (manual) approach to conducting a content analysis-a primary method in the study of media messages-is being reconfigured, assesses what is gained and lost in turning to computational solutions, and builds on a "hybrid" approach to content analysis. We argue that computational methods are most fruitfu…
Reciprocity as a Key Concept for Social Media and Society
The concept of reciprocity, particularly in the pro-social sense of mutually beneficial exchange, presents an opportunity befitting the start of a new journal on social media. Namely, how might a concept of social exchange help us understand a mediascape increasingly dominated by social exchange-where the sharing, receiving, and recirculating of information 'gifts' is central to the very social and technical frameworks on which these media functi…
Big Data and Journalism: Epistemology, expertise, economics, and ethics
Big data is a social, cultural, and technological phenomenon—a complex amalgamation of digital data abundance, emerging analytic techniques, mythology about data-driven insights, and growing critique about the overall consequences of big-data practices for democracy and society. While media and communication scholars have begun to examine and theorize about big data in the context of media and public life broadly, what are the particular implicat…
Journalism In An Era Of Big Data: Cases, concepts, and critiques
Introduction to a special issue of Digital Journalism, Volume 3, Issue 3: "Journalism in an Era of Big Data: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques
Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation
Open source and journalism: Toward New Frameworks for Imagining News Innovation
Journalists and technologists increasingly are organizing and collaborating, both formally and informally, across major news organizations and via grassroots networks on an international scale. This intersection of so-called ‘hacks and hackers’ carries with it a shared interest in finding technological solutions for news, particularly through open-source software programming. This article critically evaluates the phenomenon of open source in jour…
Thinking About Citizen Journalism: The philosophical and practical challenges of user-generated content for community newspapers
This study seeks to understand how community newspaper editors negotiate the professional complexities posed by citizen journalism—a phenomenon that, even in the abstract, would appear to undermine their gatekeeping control over content. Through interviews with 29 newspaper editors in Texas, we find that some editors either favor or disfavor the use of citizen journalism primarily on philosophical grounds, while others favor or disfavor its use m…
Audience Clicks and News Placement: A Study of Time-Lagged Influence in Online Journalism
The rise of sophisticated tools for tracking audiences online has begun to change the way media producers think about media audiences. This study examines this phenomenon in journalism, building on a revised theoretical model that accounts for greater audience engagement in the gatekeeping process. Research suggests that news editors, after long resisting or ignoring audience preferences, are becoming increasingly aware of and adaptive to consume…
Big Data and Journalism: Epistemology, expertise, economics, and ethics
Big data is a social, cultural, and technological phenomenon—a complex amalgamation of digital data abundance, emerging analytic techniques, mythology about data-driven insights, and growing critique about the overall consequences of big-data practices for democracy and society. While media and communication scholars have begun to examine and theorize about big data in the context of media and public life broadly, what are the particular implicat…
News After Trump: Journalism's Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture
Donald Trump’s rapid—and seemingly improbable—ascension from reality show star to polarizing president threw into question many assumptions about how our media and political worlds work. His habit of lying, history of racist statements, and disdain for conventions upended traditional relations between journalists and political elites. Taking an expansive view of the contemporary media and political environment during the Trump years, News After T…
Framing the War on Terror: The internalization of policy in the US press
The War on Terror was the label assigned by the Bush administration to its national security policy, launched in response to the attacks of 9/11. The cultural construction and political rationale supporting this slogan represent a powerful organizing principle that has become a widely accepted framing, laying the groundwork for the invasion of Iraq. We examine this framing where its sponsors intersect with US journalism, as illustrated by news te…
What kind of news gatekeepers do we want machines to be? Filter bubbles, fragmentation, and the normative dimensions of algorithmic recommendations
Journalism In An Era Of Big Data: Cases, concepts, and critiques
Introduction to a special issue of Digital Journalism, Volume 3, Issue 3: "Journalism in an Era of Big Data: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques
Trading zones, boundary objects, and the pursuit of news innovation: A case study of journalists and programmers
Amid growing calls for greater collaboration between journalism and computer programming, this article examines a salient case study that reveals processes of communication, exchange, and work production at the intersection of these social and occupational worlds. We focus on a key stage of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology partnership – namely, an online ‘Learning Lab’ through which 60 individuals sought to coordinate around a shared interest i…
Journalism Studies and its Core Commitments: The Making of a Communication Field
This article conceptualizes the distinctiveness of fields of scholarship within the discipline of communication through particular normative assumptions and identity practices defined here as commitments. A case study of journalism studies results in the postulation of six conceptual commitments that define its core ontological and epistemological premises: contextual sensitivity, holistic relationality, comparative inclination, normative awarene…
Framing the War on Terror: The Internalization of Policy in the U.S. Press
The challenge of political violence has grown with new means of global coordination and access to weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration’s response to this threat, following the now iconic policy reference point of 11 September 2001, has had far-ranging implications for national security strategy, relations with the world community, and civil liberties. Labeled the “war on terror,”1 the policy was framed within a phrase now part of …
Blogging as a journalistic practice: A model linking perception, motivation, and behavior
As blogs have become a fixture in today’s media environment, growing in number and influence in political communication and (mass) media discourse, research on the subject has proliferated, often emphasizing the high-profile conflicts and controversies at the intersection of blogging and journalism. Less examined, however, is the psychology of everyday citizen bloggers in this context. In studying a randomized sample of US bloggers, we attempt to…
Reciprocity as a Key Concept for Social Media and Society
The concept of reciprocity, particularly in the pro-social sense of mutually beneficial exchange, presents an opportunity befitting the start of a new journal on social media. Namely, how might a concept of social exchange help us understand a mediascape increasingly dominated by social exchange-where the sharing, receiving, and recirculating of information 'gifts' is central to the very social and technical frameworks on which these media functi…
Failure to Launch: Competing Institutional Logics, Intrapreneurship, and the Case of Chatbots
This article explores the institutional logics of intrapreneurial units, or groups within organizations that are designated to foster organizational innovation. Drawing on interviews with news intrapreneurs developing chatbots in news media organizations, this study shows that innovation can be stymied because of conflicting institutional logics. News intrapreneurs adopt a logic of experimentation, audience orientation, and efficiency-seeking, bu…
Content Analysis and the Algorithmic Coder: What Computational Social Science Means for Traditional Modes of Media Analysis
To deal with ever-larger datasets, media scholars are increasingly using computational analytic methods. This article focuses on how the traditional (manual) approach to conducting a content analysis-a primary method in the study of media messages-is being reconfigured, assesses what is gained and lost in turning to computational solutions, and builds on a "hybrid" approach to content analysis. We argue that computational methods are most fruitfu…
Reports, Inferences, and Judgments in Deceptive and Legitimate News Stories
A fundamental tenet of journalism is that news articles are based on facts, not assumptions or evaluations. A content analysis of recent deceptive news articles found that they contain a lower proportion of report statements (facts) and a higher proportion of both inferential statements (assumptions) and judgment statements (evaluations) than a random sample of ostensibly legitimate articles produced by the same major news organizations during th…
Thinking About Citizen Journalism: The philosophical and practical challenges of user-generated content for community newspapers
This study seeks to understand how community newspaper editors negotiate the professional complexities posed by citizen journalism—a phenomenon that, even in the abstract, would appear to undermine their gatekeeping control over content. Through interviews with 29 newspaper editors in Texas, we find that some editors either favor or disfavor the use of citizen journalism primarily on philosophical grounds, while others favor or disfavor its use m…
Framing the War on Terror: The internalization of policy in the US press
The War on Terror was the label assigned by the Bush administration to its national security policy, launched in response to the attacks of 9/11. The cultural construction and political rationale supporting this slogan represent a powerful organizing principle that has become a widely accepted framing, laying the groundwork for the invasion of Iraq. We examine this framing where its sponsors intersect with US journalism, as illustrated by news te…
Reports, Inferences, and Judgments in Deceptive and Legitimate News Stories
A fundamental tenet of journalism is that news articles are based on facts, not assumptions or evaluations. A content analysis of recent deceptive news articles found that they contain a lower proportion of report statements (facts) and a higher proportion of both inferential statements (assumptions) and judgment statements (evaluations) than a random sample of ostensibly legitimate articles produced by the same major news organizations during th…
Framing the War on Terror: The Internalization of Policy in the U.S. Press
The challenge of political violence has grown with new means of global coordination and access to weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration’s response to this threat, following the now iconic policy reference point of 11 September 2001, has had far-ranging implications for national security strategy, relations with the world community, and civil liberties. Labeled the “war on terror,”1 the policy was framed within a phrase now part of …
Blogging as a journalistic practice: A model linking perception, motivation, and behavior
As blogs have become a fixture in today’s media environment, growing in number and influence in political communication and (mass) media discourse, research on the subject has proliferated, often emphasizing the high-profile conflicts and controversies at the intersection of blogging and journalism. Less examined, however, is the psychology of everyday citizen bloggers in this context. In studying a randomized sample of US bloggers, we attempt to…
Audience Clicks and News Placement: A Study of Time-Lagged Influence in Online Journalism
The rise of sophisticated tools for tracking audiences online has begun to change the way media producers think about media audiences. This study examines this phenomenon in journalism, building on a revised theoretical model that accounts for greater audience engagement in the gatekeeping process. Research suggests that news editors, after long resisting or ignoring audience preferences, are becoming increasingly aware of and adaptive to consume…
Framing the War on Terror
Content Analysis in an Era of Big Data: A Hybrid Approach to Computational and Manual Methods
Massive datasets of communication are challenging traditional, human-driven approaches to content analysis. Computational methods present enticing solutions to these problems but in many cases are insufficient on their own. We argue that an approach blending computational and manual methods throughout the content analysis process may yield more fruitful results, and draw on a case study of news sourcing on Twitter to illustrate this hybrid approa…
Open source and journalism: Toward New Frameworks for Imagining News Innovation
Journalists and technologists increasingly are organizing and collaborating, both formally and informally, across major news organizations and via grassroots networks on an international scale. This intersection of so-called ‘hacks and hackers’ carries with it a shared interest in finding technological solutions for news, particularly through open-source software programming. This article critically evaluates the phenomenon of open source in jour…
Big Data and Journalism: Epistemology, expertise, economics, and ethics
Big data is a social, cultural, and technological phenomenon—a complex amalgamation of digital data abundance, emerging analytic techniques, mythology about data-driven insights, and growing critique about the overall consequences of big-data practices for democracy and society. While media and communication scholars have begun to examine and theorize about big data in the context of media and public life broadly, what are the particular implicat…
Journalism In An Era Of Big Data: Cases, concepts, and critiques
Introduction to a special issue of Digital Journalism, Volume 3, Issue 3: "Journalism in an Era of Big Data: Cases, Concepts, and Critiques
Epilogue
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shown there is no single protocol for studying the boundaries of journalism, just as there is no single kind of journalism to study across the various contexts of media systems, political contexts and technological arrangements described in these pages. It also shows how boundary contests around actors and activities have emerge…
Boundaries of journalism: Professionalism, practices and participation
Introduction: The Many Boundaries of Journalism Matt Carlson Part I: Professionalism, Norms and Boundaries 1. Out of Bounds: Professional Norms as Boundary Markers Jane B. Singer 2. Nothing But The Truth: Redrafting the Journalistic Boundary of Verification Alfred Hermida 3. Divided we stand: Blurred Boundaries in Argentine Journalism Adriana Amado and Silvio Waisbord 4. The Wall Becomes a Curtain: Revisiting Journalism's News-Advertising Boundar…
Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation
Content Analysis and the Algorithmic Coder: What Computational Social Science Means for Traditional Modes of Media Analysis
To deal with ever-larger datasets, media scholars are increasingly using computational analytic methods. This article focuses on how the traditional (manual) approach to conducting a content analysis-a primary method in the study of media messages-is being reconfigured, assesses what is gained and lost in turning to computational solutions, and builds on a "hybrid" approach to content analysis. We argue that computational methods are most fruitfu…
Reciprocity as a Key Concept for Social Media and Society
The concept of reciprocity, particularly in the pro-social sense of mutually beneficial exchange, presents an opportunity befitting the start of a new journal on social media. Namely, how might a concept of social exchange help us understand a mediascape increasingly dominated by social exchange-where the sharing, receiving, and recirculating of information 'gifts' is central to the very social and technical frameworks on which these media functi…
Mapping the Human–Machine Divide in Journalism
Trading zones, boundary objects, and the pursuit of news innovation: A case study of journalists and programmers
Amid growing calls for greater collaboration between journalism and computer programming, this article examines a salient case study that reveals processes of communication, exchange, and work production at the intersection of these social and occupational worlds. We focus on a key stage of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology partnership – namely, an online ‘Learning Lab’ through which 60 individuals sought to coordinate around a shared interest i…
Journalism Studies and its Core Commitments: The Making of a Communication Field
This article conceptualizes the distinctiveness of fields of scholarship within the discipline of communication through particular normative assumptions and identity practices defined here as commitments. A case study of journalism studies results in the postulation of six conceptual commitments that define its core ontological and epistemological premises: contextual sensitivity, holistic relationality, comparative inclination, normative awarene…
What kind of news gatekeepers do we want machines to be? Filter bubbles, fragmentation, and the normative dimensions of algorithmic recommendations
Boundary Work
This chapter offers a state-of-the-art analysis of boundary work and journalism. Physical boundaries dictate how space is understood and creates complex impediments. Boundary work is not a patrol mechanism for some intrinsic scientific value; it is the mechanism through which good science is defined. The boundary work framework is particularly well-suited to journalism given its mix of endurance and transitoriness. Journalists used boundary work …
Lack of trust in the news media, institutional weakness, and relational journalism as a potential way forward
Lack of trust in the news media, institutional weakness, and relational journalism as a potential way forward
Failure to Launch: Competing Institutional Logics, Intrapreneurship, and the Case of Chatbots
This article explores the institutional logics of intrapreneurial units, or groups within organizations that are designated to foster organizational innovation. Drawing on interviews with news intrapreneurs developing chatbots in news media organizations, this study shows that innovation can be stymied because of conflicting institutional logics. News intrapreneurs adopt a logic of experimentation, audience orientation, and efficiency-seeking, bu…
Journalistic Moralities: Confronting Trump’s Lies and Racism
This chapter questions the degree to which a professionalized adherence to objectivity has led journalists to engage in false equivalencies rather than identify Donald Trump’s statements as being lies or racist. This rhetorical void allows powerful actors—such as Trump, polarizing pundits, and other partisans—to shape political lies into “facts” by maligning the press. Journalists have publicly debated how they should respond, with some prominent…
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