James S Ettema
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James S Ettema |
| GIVEN NAMES | James S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ettema |
| SIGNATURE | ETTEMA J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ways of worldmaking in Wikipedia
The on-going social construction of reality, according to Berger and Luckmann’s classic treatise, entails both an explanation of the social order which ascribes “cognitive validity to its objectivated meanings” and a justification of that order which provides “a normative dignity to its practical imperatives.” The implication is that our knowledge of social reality integrates cognitive facts and normative values to continuously legitimize that re…
A íntima dependência mútua entre fato e valor
Este artigo examina a relação intrincada entre fato e valor no jornalismo, argumentando que ambos são mutuamente dependentes. Os autores questionam a noção de objetividade jornalística como uma separação completa entre fato e valor, demonstrando como os valores influenciam a seleção, apresentação e interpretação dos fatos. A objetividade, segundo eles, é um produto de acordos intersubjetivos sobre valores que servem como premissas para julgamento…
New media and new mechanisms of public accountability
Ethics and Eloquence in Journalism
Journalists’ common sense, their everyday moral intuitions, offers a practical but flawed way of knowing right from wrong. But rather than discounting or dismissing this “naïve everyday ethical knowledge,” which would rob journalism of its normative substance, we propose to rehabilitate it through a process of public justification. Grounded in aspects of Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative ethics, we offer a model of press accountability th…
An international symposium on investigative journalism
Keywords K E Y W O R D S, agenda setting, China, democratization, guerilla reporting methods, investigative journalism, media commercialization, media liberalization, news sources, Nigeria, sensationalism, Slovenia, sub-Saharan Africa, Sweden, undercover investigation, underground press
Journalism as Reason-Giving
Offering reasons for public choice is the central act of deliberative democracy. These reasons, however, must meet a stern criterion; they must be grounded in principles that cannot be reasonably rejected by citizens seeking fair terms of cooperation. Because reasons given in actual political argument regularly fail to meet this criterion, journalism should be asked to participate not merely by presiding over an uncritical forum for reason-giving…
Crafting cultural resonance
To offer mythic appeal or ritual value, news must be framed not only to make certain facts and interpretations salient but also to resonate with what writers and readers take to be real and important matters of life. Paralleling salience as an effect of selectivity in fact-gathering and emphasis in news-writing, this study argues that resonance is an effect of those same practices when accomplished with eloquence. Continuing coverage of a particu…
Authors response
Journal Article Authors response Get access Theodore L. Glasser, Theodore L. Glasser 1Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Ettema James Ettema 2Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 50, Issue 2, June 2000, Pages 187–188, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2000.tb02847.x Published: 10 January 20…
The mayor's race
In the coverage of recent mayoral campaigns in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, objective news reporting worked as an ideological force. First, the press viewed the campaigns as horse races driven by the logic of racial strategy, and the urban public as fundamentally constituted by racial and ethnic blocs. Particularly in its fascination with polling, campaign coverage focused on carefully delineating those blocs and obsessively measuring the g…
Good News from a Bad Neighborhood
This study analyzes the language through which journalists comprehend the nature and meaning of the urban community. It employs content analysis and interviews with reporters to critique the discourse of urban pathology - that is, the conceptual system often used to think and write about economically distressed neighborhoods. Rather than suggesting that all the “bad news “from these neighborhoods merely be balanced with “good news,” this study pr…
The Irony in—and of—Journalism
In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Rorty argues that liberal democracy has had “the last conceptual revolution it needs.” He also suggests that journalism, like literature, helps realize the benefits of this revolution by telling stories about suffering and injustice—stories that contribute to a sense of human solidarity. This essay examines a particular rhetorical and narrative strategy—irony—used in a particular genre of contemporary journa…
When the facts don't speak for themselves
A comparison of three news stories illustrates how journalists can use irony to undercut and even reverse the literal or ostensible meaning of what is being reported. As a rhetorical device aimed at establishing the conditions for competing interpretations of a text, irony enables journalists to report “the facts” accurately and impartially while at the same time letting it be known—albeit quietly—that the facts do not “speak for themselves.” But…
Investigative journalism and the moral order
In this essay, we examine the cultural consequences of a press that seeks to be both a detached observer of fact and a “custodian of conscience.” Drawing upon interviews with distinguished investigative journalists, we examine the diverse ways that these reporters have found to work within, but never resolve, the tension between objectivity and adversarialism. We also examine the particular contribution of investigative journalists to moral order…
Narrative Form and Moral Force
An examination of prize-winning journalistic exposés uncovers the narrative strategies by which the innocence of victims, and the blame for their plight, are established
Journalism in the “post‐factual age
Explaining Information System Use With System-Monitored vs. Self-Reported Use Measures
Journal Article Explaining Information System Use with System-Monitored vs. Self-Reported Use Measures Get access JAMES S. ETTEMA JAMES S. ETTEMA James S. Ettema is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. This research was supported by Grant No. IST-82I2I64 from the Division of Information Science and Technology of the National Science Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Media Sociology and Media Workers
Knowledge Gap Effects in a Health Information Campaign
The evaluation of a campaign to increase cardiovascular health knowledge indicates that within the treatment community, education was a significant predictor of knowledge before the campaign but was not a significant predictor after the campaign. Two variables related to motivation to acquire information about cardiovascular health (age and perceived threat of heart attack) were not significant predictors of knowledge before the campaign but were…
Deficits, Differences, and Ceilings
This article focuses on audience-related factors such as ability, motivation, and media use as well as "ceiling effects" that act as contingent conditions for understanding the "knowledge gap." Ability deficits, individual differences, and ceiling effects, true or imposed, are examined to attempt a clarification of how knowledge gaps are widened or narrowed.
Investigative journalism and the moral order
In this essay, we examine the cultural consequences of a press that seeks to be both a detached observer of fact and a “custodian of conscience.” Drawing upon interviews with distinguished investigative journalists, we examine the diverse ways that these reporters have found to work within, but never resolve, the tension between objectivity and adversarialism. We also examine the particular contribution of investigative journalists to moral order…
Crafting cultural resonance
To offer mythic appeal or ritual value, news must be framed not only to make certain facts and interpretations salient but also to resonate with what writers and readers take to be real and important matters of life. Paralleling salience as an effect of selectivity in fact-gathering and emphasis in news-writing, this study argues that resonance is an effect of those same practices when accomplished with eloquence. Continuing coverage of a particu…
Journalism as Reason-Giving
Offering reasons for public choice is the central act of deliberative democracy. These reasons, however, must meet a stern criterion; they must be grounded in principles that cannot be reasonably rejected by citizens seeking fair terms of cooperation. Because reasons given in actual political argument regularly fail to meet this criterion, journalism should be asked to participate not merely by presiding over an uncritical forum for reason-giving…
When the facts don't speak for themselves
A comparison of three news stories illustrates how journalists can use irony to undercut and even reverse the literal or ostensible meaning of what is being reported. As a rhetorical device aimed at establishing the conditions for competing interpretations of a text, irony enables journalists to report “the facts” accurately and impartially while at the same time letting it be known—albeit quietly—that the facts do not “speak for themselves.” But…
Knowledge Gap Effects in a Health Information Campaign
The evaluation of a campaign to increase cardiovascular health knowledge indicates that within the treatment community, education was a significant predictor of knowledge before the campaign but was not a significant predictor after the campaign. Two variables related to motivation to acquire information about cardiovascular health (age and perceived threat of heart attack) were not significant predictors of knowledge before the campaign but were…
Good News from a Bad Neighborhood
This study analyzes the language through which journalists comprehend the nature and meaning of the urban community. It employs content analysis and interviews with reporters to critique the discourse of urban pathology - that is, the conceptual system often used to think and write about economically distressed neighborhoods. Rather than suggesting that all the “bad news “from these neighborhoods merely be balanced with “good news,” this study pr…
An international symposium on investigative journalism
Keywords K E Y W O R D S, agenda setting, China, democratization, guerilla reporting methods, investigative journalism, media commercialization, media liberalization, news sources, Nigeria, sensationalism, Slovenia, sub-Saharan Africa, Sweden, undercover investigation, underground press
Explaining Information System Use With System-Monitored vs. Self-Reported Use Measures
Journal Article Explaining Information System Use with System-Monitored vs. Self-Reported Use Measures Get access JAMES S. ETTEMA JAMES S. ETTEMA James S. Ettema is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. This research was supported by Grant No. IST-82I2I64 from the Division of Information Science and Technology of the National Science Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Ethics and Eloquence in Journalism
Journalists’ common sense, their everyday moral intuitions, offers a practical but flawed way of knowing right from wrong. But rather than discounting or dismissing this “naïve everyday ethical knowledge,” which would rob journalism of its normative substance, we propose to rehabilitate it through a process of public justification. Grounded in aspects of Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative ethics, we offer a model of press accountability th…
Journalism in the “post‐factual age
New media and new mechanisms of public accountability
Ways of worldmaking in Wikipedia
The on-going social construction of reality, according to Berger and Luckmann’s classic treatise, entails both an explanation of the social order which ascribes “cognitive validity to its objectivated meanings” and a justification of that order which provides “a normative dignity to its practical imperatives.” The implication is that our knowledge of social reality integrates cognitive facts and normative values to continuously legitimize that re…
Deficits, Differences, and Ceilings
This article focuses on audience-related factors such as ability, motivation, and media use as well as "ceiling effects" that act as contingent conditions for understanding the "knowledge gap." Ability deficits, individual differences, and ceiling effects, true or imposed, are examined to attempt a clarification of how knowledge gaps are widened or narrowed.
Media Sociology and Media Workers
Knowledge Gap Effects in a Health Information Campaign
The evaluation of a campaign to increase cardiovascular health knowledge indicates that within the treatment community, education was a significant predictor of knowledge before the campaign but was not a significant predictor after the campaign. Two variables related to motivation to acquire information about cardiovascular health (age and perceived threat of heart attack) were not significant predictors of knowledge before the campaign but were…
Explaining Information System Use With System-Monitored vs. Self-Reported Use Measures
Journal Article Explaining Information System Use with System-Monitored vs. Self-Reported Use Measures Get access JAMES S. ETTEMA JAMES S. ETTEMA James S. Ettema is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University. This research was supported by Grant No. IST-82I2I64 from the Division of Information Science and Technology of the National Science Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Journalism in the “post‐factual age
Narrative Form and Moral Force
An examination of prize-winning journalistic exposés uncovers the narrative strategies by which the innocence of victims, and the blame for their plight, are established
Investigative journalism and the moral order
In this essay, we examine the cultural consequences of a press that seeks to be both a detached observer of fact and a “custodian of conscience.” Drawing upon interviews with distinguished investigative journalists, we examine the diverse ways that these reporters have found to work within, but never resolve, the tension between objectivity and adversarialism. We also examine the particular contribution of investigative journalists to moral order…
When the facts don't speak for themselves
A comparison of three news stories illustrates how journalists can use irony to undercut and even reverse the literal or ostensible meaning of what is being reported. As a rhetorical device aimed at establishing the conditions for competing interpretations of a text, irony enables journalists to report “the facts” accurately and impartially while at the same time letting it be known—albeit quietly—that the facts do not “speak for themselves.” But…
The Irony in—and of—Journalism
In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Rorty argues that liberal democracy has had “the last conceptual revolution it needs.” He also suggests that journalism, like literature, helps realize the benefits of this revolution by telling stories about suffering and injustice—stories that contribute to a sense of human solidarity. This essay examines a particular rhetorical and narrative strategy—irony—used in a particular genre of contemporary journa…
Good News from a Bad Neighborhood
This study analyzes the language through which journalists comprehend the nature and meaning of the urban community. It employs content analysis and interviews with reporters to critique the discourse of urban pathology - that is, the conceptual system often used to think and write about economically distressed neighborhoods. Rather than suggesting that all the “bad news “from these neighborhoods merely be balanced with “good news,” this study pr…
The mayor's race
In the coverage of recent mayoral campaigns in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, objective news reporting worked as an ideological force. First, the press viewed the campaigns as horse races driven by the logic of racial strategy, and the urban public as fundamentally constituted by racial and ethnic blocs. Particularly in its fascination with polling, campaign coverage focused on carefully delineating those blocs and obsessively measuring the g…
Authors response
Journal Article Authors response Get access Theodore L. Glasser, Theodore L. Glasser 1Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Ettema James Ettema 2Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 50, Issue 2, June 2000, Pages 187–188, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2000.tb02847.x Published: 10 January 20…
Crafting cultural resonance
To offer mythic appeal or ritual value, news must be framed not only to make certain facts and interpretations salient but also to resonate with what writers and readers take to be real and important matters of life. Paralleling salience as an effect of selectivity in fact-gathering and emphasis in news-writing, this study argues that resonance is an effect of those same practices when accomplished with eloquence. Continuing coverage of a particu…
An international symposium on investigative journalism
Keywords K E Y W O R D S, agenda setting, China, democratization, guerilla reporting methods, investigative journalism, media commercialization, media liberalization, news sources, Nigeria, sensationalism, Slovenia, sub-Saharan Africa, Sweden, undercover investigation, underground press
Journalism as Reason-Giving
Offering reasons for public choice is the central act of deliberative democracy. These reasons, however, must meet a stern criterion; they must be grounded in principles that cannot be reasonably rejected by citizens seeking fair terms of cooperation. Because reasons given in actual political argument regularly fail to meet this criterion, journalism should be asked to participate not merely by presiding over an uncritical forum for reason-giving…
Ethics and Eloquence in Journalism
Journalists’ common sense, their everyday moral intuitions, offers a practical but flawed way of knowing right from wrong. But rather than discounting or dismissing this “naïve everyday ethical knowledge,” which would rob journalism of its normative substance, we propose to rehabilitate it through a process of public justification. Grounded in aspects of Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative ethics, we offer a model of press accountability th…
New media and new mechanisms of public accountability
A íntima dependência mútua entre fato e valor
Este artigo examina a relação intrincada entre fato e valor no jornalismo, argumentando que ambos são mutuamente dependentes. Os autores questionam a noção de objetividade jornalística como uma separação completa entre fato e valor, demonstrando como os valores influenciam a seleção, apresentação e interpretação dos fatos. A objetividade, segundo eles, é um produto de acordos intersubjetivos sobre valores que servem como premissas para julgamento…
Ways of worldmaking in Wikipedia
The on-going social construction of reality, according to Berger and Luckmann’s classic treatise, entails both an explanation of the social order which ascribes “cognitive validity to its objectivated meanings” and a justification of that order which provides “a normative dignity to its practical imperatives.” The implication is that our knowledge of social reality integrates cognitive facts and normative values to continuously legitimize that re…
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