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ID4258290
NAMEPerry Parks
GIVEN NAMESPerry
FAMILY NAMEParks
SIGNATUREPARKS P
AFFILIATIONSMichigan State University
ORCID0000-0003-3958-6793
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS144
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • Naturalizing Violence: Media Discourse and the Limits of Journalistic Nationalism

    Open Access•Ahmed Zayeef, Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2026

    News coverage of cross-border conflict is an essential element of international discourse, constructing national and social identities for global publics. Most journalism studies of border violence have focused on conflict among nations at war. Rarer studies of “friendly” nations have highlighted only news coverage within the dominant nation. This study builds on existing knowledge of journalistic discourse through a cross-national analysis that …

  • Addressing Media Harm and Community Relationships through an Ethic of Love

    Open Access•Danielle K Brown, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2026

    Ethical approaches to address media harm and build more idealized relationships between journalists and marginalized communities have relied heavily on prescriptions for unidirectional journalistic practices, often framed as an ethic of care . In this exploration of relationship development and maintenance through the perspectives of trusted journalists, we identify practices and exchanges that reflect a more reciprocal framework of an ethic of l…

  • Outrage Becomes a Friend”: Dialogues Between Student Journalism, Columbia’s Pro-Palestine Protests, and Paulo Freire’s Philosophy

    Leilane Menezes Rodrigues, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2026•References: 14

  • “Find the Joy”: A War Correspondent’s Tweets and the Rise of an Affective Age in News

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Digital Journalism•2025

    This study provides empirical support for undertheorized phenomena in contemporary digital news reporting—the foregrounding of joy-based news values and the presentation of affective, immanent atmospheres—as they manifest in U.S. National Public Radio correspondent Tim Mak’s daily Twitter threads from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Multimodal textual analysis of 647 tweets over 31 threads shows how affordances of newer media platforms faci…

  • Victimhood, partisan identities, and media consumption in the US

    Open Access•Adam Mayer, Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2025•References: 39

  • Not the Whole Story: The On Being Podcast and Journalism as a Healing Art

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2025•References: 37

    Responding to a provocation to decenter journalism in journalism studies, this paper offers an interpretive textual analysis of the “journalism-adjacent,” spiritually oriented podcast On Being, in line with recent theories promoting journalists as moral interpreters who could privilege joyful affects in news coverage. The show’s host and guests regularly critique mainstream journalism’s emphasis on conflict, polarization, and oversimplification. …

  • Conceiving Computer-Assisted Reporting: Optimism, materialism, and technological determinism in United States-focused textbooks

    Open Access•Perry Parks, Will Mari•ARTICLE•Journalism•2024

    This study examines how US-focused instructional textbooks presented newsgathering approaches associated with the Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) movement from the late 20th to the early 21st centuries. As newsrooms began a decades-long shift toward digitalization and data-driven, social-scientific reporting, industry thought leaders used educational texts to introduce and enculturate rank-and-file journalists into increasingly technologized pr…

  • How U.S.-based children’s news show CNN 10 reproduces neoliberal hegemony: A critical discourse analysis

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•The Communication Review•2023

    This study critically explores discourses of hegemonic neoliberalism on the digital news show CNN 10, which is explicitly produced for student audiences and shown in classrooms to millions of young people. Drawing on theories of hegemony, neoliberalism, and positioning, analysis of 102 episode transcripts shows that CNN 10’s young audience is interpellated occasionally as students, rarely as citizens, and almost always as nascent workers, consume…

  • Media and partisanship in energy transition: Towards a new synthesis

    Open Access•Adam Mayer, Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Energy Research & Social Science•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 53

  • Senses of Truth and Journalism’s Epistemic Crisis

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journal of Media Ethics•2022

    Journalists’ and publics’ relationship with truth-telling is so messy because the term “truth” holds multitudes of competing senses that are rarely acknowledged in journalism discourse. People approach contested subjects from many, sometimes incommensurate, senses of truth. When journalists fail to identify the competing senses embedded in varying truth claims, they reproduce confusion as to the validity and verifiability of such claims and contr…

  • Disastrous to Take a Single Note”: Memory and Materiality in a Century of U.S. Journalism Textbooks

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2022•References: 26

    In this paper, I examine the highly contested professional discourse around journalistic notetaking through 125 years of U.S. reporting textbooks, exploring how professional practices have been presented, rationalized, and justified in succeeding eras of modern journalism. Analyzing through a cultural lens and material theories of “objects of journalism,” the study offers insight into developing perceptions of journalists’ ethical obligations to …

  • An Overdue Contribution: Mass Communication Theory in the Security of Democracy

    Michael Mcdevitt, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2022•References: 24

  • Down the Middle”: CNN 10 and the Ideology of Objectivity

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2021•References: 17

    CNN 10 is a popular digital news show that explicitly targets schoolchildren with reporting branded as “objective.” The show helps to introduce many young people into Western news logics, but it has received little scrutiny in media scholarship. This critical textual analysis examines the show’s content in light of its metajournalistic ideology, focusing on coverage of U.S. elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, and environmental disasters. Analysis s…

  • Joy is a News Value

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2021•Cited by: 16•References: 15

    This paper proposes that journalism scholars adopt joy as an explicit news value and adjust their epistemological and methodological approaches to news accordingly. Establishing that normative conceptions and practices of news tend toward the negative, the paper upends what journalism should privilege—reorienting the minds of journalists and audiences toward affective characteristics of people and events that evoke well-being, delight, and courag…

  • Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Communication Theory•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    This article seeks to reconcile disparate conceptions of thinking and feeling in journalism by foregrounding an affective dimension of news epistemology through the example of journalistic poetry. Drawing from Archibald MacLeish’s classic 20th-century lecture linking knowledge and the imagination, and locating Postema and Deuze’s continuum of journalism and the arts within Hanitzsch’s broader framework of journalism culture, I explore the generat…

  • Choosing Joy as Methodology in Journalism Research

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2021•References: 33

    This article seeks to complicate notions that research methods in journalism and media communication should necessarily be preceded or driven by research questions, suggesting that researchers who prioritize methods that bring them joy might discover questions they wouldn’t otherwise know to ask. The article first explores methodology as a lifestyle choice through the framework of non-representational theory. It then examines literature on postco…

  • Promises Granted: Venture Philanthropy and Tech Ideology in Metajournalistic Discourse

    Brian Creech, Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    The past half-decade has seen the rise of venture philanthropy in the journalism industry, a kind of charitable giving often driven by tech industry actors Google and Facebook working through intermediary institutions such as the Knight Foundation and the American Journalism Project. As an ideological project, this intervention symbolizes both a significant economic and cultural investment. This paper interrogates how venture philanthropists and …

  • Foregrounding Backgrounds: How Scientists Conceive Art to Express the Invisible

    Open Access•Perry Parks, Linda R White•ARTICLE•Science Communication•2021•References: 30

    Scientist-artist collaborations have become a high-profile form of science communication as scientists seek creative ways to connect with publics. This qualitative case study examines one such collaboration from the perspective of scientist and artist participants’ experiences with the purpose and meaning of art. To do so, we draw on John Dewey’s concept of art as experience and Nigel Thrift and other nonrepresentational theorists’ emphasis on ov…

  • Showing They Care (Or Don't): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok

    Open Access•Samantha Hautea, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2021•Cited by: 38•References: 35

    The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and social activism, particularly for youth, but use of the platform's affective affordances to spread awareness of important issues has not been adequately studied. Through an exploratory multimodal discourse analysis of a sample of popular climate change-hashtagged TikTok videos, we examine how affordances of visibility, editability, and association facilitate the f…

  • Researching With Our Hair on Fire: Three Frameworks for Rethinking News in a Postnormative World

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism & Mass Communication…•2020

    This article urges a jolt in journalism theory commensurate with the urgent state of planetary affairs—including catastrophic climate change and spreading authoritarianism—that journalism’s weaknesses have helped to precipitate and that its strengths might help to contain. The article explores three conceptual frameworks offering alternative approaches to conceiving news that might disrupt the stasis of our polarized societies: “existential journ…

  • Is Climate Change a Crisis – And Who Says So? An Analysis of Climate Characterization in Major U.S. News Media

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2020

    This study measures characterizations of global climate change as an actual or impending “crisis” in major U.S. news media over several years to assess levels of alarm over climate change and related issues as expressed by journalists and their sources, and to determine whether major focusing events such as periodic reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change affect source and journalist characterization of the issue. Results indicat…

  • Covering Trump’s ‘Carnival’: A Rhetorical Alternative to ‘Objective’ Reporting

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Donald Trump’s communication style – replete with grotesquery, mockery, boasts, and lies – diverges radically from past US presidents and disrupts normative politics in ways that threaten democratic institutions. Yet journalists covering Trump often fail to capture the uniquely damaging nature of his rhetoric, instead reconstructing Trump’s speech into coherent, “presidential” narratives. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival, a medieval fe…

  • The Ultimate News Value: Journalism Textbooks, the U.S. Presidency, and the Normalization of Donald Trump

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    U.S. journalists covering Donald Trump's presidential campaign and early administration submitted to unprecedented abuse while normalizing and legitimizing his candidacy and official acts. Many justified such coverage as something they had to do because Trump was definitionally newsworthy. This interpretive textual analysis of 75 journalism textbooks from 1894 to 2016 offers a window into a professional discourse that reifies the U.S. presidency …

  • An unnatural split: How ‘Human Interest’ Sucks the Life From Significant News

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 15

    Human interest might be considered the earliest of the news values, and in the past century, it has been the most flexible, allowing journalists to report and present compelling stories that lie outside more formal news definitions. In this historical and longitudinal analysis of 75 journalism textbooks from 1894 to 2016, I argue that human interest has also been a central enforcement tool for the dichotomy between emotional ‘feature’ stories and…

  • Toward a humanistic turn for a more ethical journalism

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 20

    This article argues that the social scientific epistemology that has dominated journalism for the past half-century has devalued the moral implications of public affairs and deprived citizens of the ethical tools necessary to make humane political decisions. Reviewing the contingent history of the integration of journalistic and social scientific methods leading to journalism’s computational turn, the essay calls for a humanistic reconceptualizat…

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  • Showing They Care (Or Don't): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok

    Open Access•Samantha Hautea, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2021•Cited by: 38•References: 35

    The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and social activism, particularly for youth, but use of the platform's affective affordances to spread awareness of important issues has not been adequately studied. Through an exploratory multimodal discourse analysis of a sample of popular climate change-hashtagged TikTok videos, we examine how affordances of visibility, editability, and association facilitate the f…

  • Textbook News Values: Stable Concepts, Changing Choices

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism & Mass Communication…•2018•Cited by: 21•References: 17

    This article examines the historical contingency of news values as evidenced in journalism historiography and more than a century of journalism reporting and writing textbooks dating to 1894. Textbooks are important distillers and (re)constructors of journalists’ conceptions of news and not-news. Findings suggest that although key news values such as timeliness, proximity, prominence, unusualness, conflict, human interest, and impact have been fu…

  • Joy is a News Value

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2021•Cited by: 16•References: 15

    This paper proposes that journalism scholars adopt joy as an explicit news value and adjust their epistemological and methodological approaches to news accordingly. Establishing that normative conceptions and practices of news tend toward the negative, the paper upends what journalism should privilege—reorienting the minds of journalists and audiences toward affective characteristics of people and events that evoke well-being, delight, and courag…

  • Toward a humanistic turn for a more ethical journalism

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 20

    This article argues that the social scientific epistemology that has dominated journalism for the past half-century has devalued the moral implications of public affairs and deprived citizens of the ethical tools necessary to make humane political decisions. Reviewing the contingent history of the integration of journalistic and social scientific methods leading to journalism’s computational turn, the essay calls for a humanistic reconceptualizat…

  • Covering Trump’s ‘Carnival’: A Rhetorical Alternative to ‘Objective’ Reporting

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Donald Trump’s communication style – replete with grotesquery, mockery, boasts, and lies – diverges radically from past US presidents and disrupts normative politics in ways that threaten democratic institutions. Yet journalists covering Trump often fail to capture the uniquely damaging nature of his rhetoric, instead reconstructing Trump’s speech into coherent, “presidential” narratives. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival, a medieval fe…

  • An unnatural split: How ‘Human Interest’ Sucks the Life From Significant News

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 15

    Human interest might be considered the earliest of the news values, and in the past century, it has been the most flexible, allowing journalists to report and present compelling stories that lie outside more formal news definitions. In this historical and longitudinal analysis of 75 journalism textbooks from 1894 to 2016, I argue that human interest has also been a central enforcement tool for the dichotomy between emotional ‘feature’ stories and…

  • Promises Granted: Venture Philanthropy and Tech Ideology in Metajournalistic Discourse

    Brian Creech, Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    The past half-decade has seen the rise of venture philanthropy in the journalism industry, a kind of charitable giving often driven by tech industry actors Google and Facebook working through intermediary institutions such as the Knight Foundation and the American Journalism Project. As an ideological project, this intervention symbolizes both a significant economic and cultural investment. This paper interrogates how venture philanthropists and …

  • The Ultimate News Value: Journalism Textbooks, the U.S. Presidency, and the Normalization of Donald Trump

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    U.S. journalists covering Donald Trump's presidential campaign and early administration submitted to unprecedented abuse while normalizing and legitimizing his candidacy and official acts. Many justified such coverage as something they had to do because Trump was definitionally newsworthy. This interpretive textual analysis of 75 journalism textbooks from 1894 to 2016 offers a window into a professional discourse that reifies the U.S. presidency …

  • Crisis Continued: Cable news, American exceptionalism, and discourses of danger

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 9

    In January 2016, Iran detained 10 US sailors who had drifted into Iranian territory, releasing them 15 hours later after intense diplomatic activity. This article explores the discursive choices evident over three days of broadcast and cable news coverage of the incident to illuminate ideological stances common to several of the reports, with emphasis on two clips from CNN and Fox News that bear significant formal distinctions concealing close su…

  • Non-representational news: An intervention into pseudo-events

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 3

    This article introduces a journalistic intervention into routinized political ‘pseudo-events’ that can lull reporters and citizens into stultified complacency about public affairs while facilitating highly disciplined politicians’ cynical messaging. The intervention draws on non-representational theory, a style of research that aims to disrupt automatic routines and encourage people to recognize possibilities for change from moment to moment. The…

  • The Discipline-Autonomy Paradox: How U.S. Journalism Textbooks Construct Reporters’ Freedom Just to Tear it Down

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 16

    This study foregrounds the paradox in U.S. journalism culture whereby journalists are taught both that they have substantial freedom of judgment and that they must constrain such judgment to meet the narrow common-sense expectations of their peers and other social groups. Through the lens of Foucault’s concept of discipline and Bourdieu’s habitus, I analyze this contradictory discourse in 75 U.S. introductory journalism textbooks spanning the bir…

  • Anti-intellectualism among US students in journalism and mass communication: A cultural perspective

    Open Access•Michael Mcdevitt, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    This study explores how support for journalistic anti-intellectualism is condoned in the views of emerging adults in the United States as they develop attitudes toward news, audiences, and authority. Anti-rationalism and anti-elitism as cultural expressions of anti-intellectualism correlate as expected with approval of corresponding news practices. Identification with professional roles generally fails to inoculate college students against the en…

  • Media and partisanship in energy transition: Towards a new synthesis

    Open Access•Adam Mayer, Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Energy Research & Social Science•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 53

  • Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Communication Theory•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    This article seeks to reconcile disparate conceptions of thinking and feeling in journalism by foregrounding an affective dimension of news epistemology through the example of journalistic poetry. Drawing from Archibald MacLeish’s classic 20th-century lecture linking knowledge and the imagination, and locating Postema and Deuze’s continuum of journalism and the arts within Hanitzsch’s broader framework of journalism culture, I explore the generat…

  • From Apes to Whistleblowers: How Scientists Inform, Defend, and Excite in Newspaper Op-Eds

    Open Access•Perry Parks, Bruno Takahashi•ARTICLE•Science Communication•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Scientists are being called upon to communicate more clearly, strategically, and frequently with the public. An understudied, but influential, outreach method is writing newspaper op-ed commentaries. Using speech act theory as a framework, this qualitative analysis of the objectives and strategies scientists enact when writing op-eds found that writers focus on informing, defending, and exciting about science through personal stories, accessible …

  • From Apes to Whistleblowers: How Scientists Inform, Defend, and Excite in Newspaper Op-Eds

    Open Access•Perry Parks, Bruno Takahashi•ARTICLE•Science Communication•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Scientists are being called upon to communicate more clearly, strategically, and frequently with the public. An understudied, but influential, outreach method is writing newspaper op-ed commentaries. Using speech act theory as a framework, this qualitative analysis of the objectives and strategies scientists enact when writing op-eds found that writers focus on informing, defending, and exciting about science through personal stories, accessible …

  • Crisis Continued: Cable news, American exceptionalism, and discourses of danger

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2017•Cited by: 7•References: 9

    In January 2016, Iran detained 10 US sailors who had drifted into Iranian territory, releasing them 15 hours later after intense diplomatic activity. This article explores the discursive choices evident over three days of broadcast and cable news coverage of the incident to illuminate ideological stances common to several of the reports, with emphasis on two clips from CNN and Fox News that bear significant formal distinctions concealing close su…

  • Anti-intellectualism among US students in journalism and mass communication: A cultural perspective

    Open Access•Michael Mcdevitt, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    This study explores how support for journalistic anti-intellectualism is condoned in the views of emerging adults in the United States as they develop attitudes toward news, audiences, and authority. Anti-rationalism and anti-elitism as cultural expressions of anti-intellectualism correlate as expected with approval of corresponding news practices. Identification with professional roles generally fails to inoculate college students against the en…

  • Non-representational news: An intervention into pseudo-events

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 3

    This article introduces a journalistic intervention into routinized political ‘pseudo-events’ that can lull reporters and citizens into stultified complacency about public affairs while facilitating highly disciplined politicians’ cynical messaging. The intervention draws on non-representational theory, a style of research that aims to disrupt automatic routines and encourage people to recognize possibilities for change from moment to moment. The…

  • The Discipline-Autonomy Paradox: How U.S. Journalism Textbooks Construct Reporters’ Freedom Just to Tear it Down

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 16

    This study foregrounds the paradox in U.S. journalism culture whereby journalists are taught both that they have substantial freedom of judgment and that they must constrain such judgment to meet the narrow common-sense expectations of their peers and other social groups. Through the lens of Foucault’s concept of discipline and Bourdieu’s habitus, I analyze this contradictory discourse in 75 U.S. introductory journalism textbooks spanning the bir…

  • Textbook News Values: Stable Concepts, Changing Choices

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism & Mass Communication…•2018•Cited by: 21•References: 17

    This article examines the historical contingency of news values as evidenced in journalism historiography and more than a century of journalism reporting and writing textbooks dating to 1894. Textbooks are important distillers and (re)constructors of journalists’ conceptions of news and not-news. Findings suggest that although key news values such as timeliness, proximity, prominence, unusualness, conflict, human interest, and impact have been fu…

  • Covering Trump’s ‘Carnival’: A Rhetorical Alternative to ‘Objective’ Reporting

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    Donald Trump’s communication style – replete with grotesquery, mockery, boasts, and lies – diverges radically from past US presidents and disrupts normative politics in ways that threaten democratic institutions. Yet journalists covering Trump often fail to capture the uniquely damaging nature of his rhetoric, instead reconstructing Trump’s speech into coherent, “presidential” narratives. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival, a medieval fe…

  • The Ultimate News Value: Journalism Textbooks, the U.S. Presidency, and the Normalization of Donald Trump

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 10

    U.S. journalists covering Donald Trump's presidential campaign and early administration submitted to unprecedented abuse while normalizing and legitimizing his candidacy and official acts. Many justified such coverage as something they had to do because Trump was definitionally newsworthy. This interpretive textual analysis of 75 journalism textbooks from 1894 to 2016 offers a window into a professional discourse that reifies the U.S. presidency …

  • An unnatural split: How ‘Human Interest’ Sucks the Life From Significant News

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 15

    Human interest might be considered the earliest of the news values, and in the past century, it has been the most flexible, allowing journalists to report and present compelling stories that lie outside more formal news definitions. In this historical and longitudinal analysis of 75 journalism textbooks from 1894 to 2016, I argue that human interest has also been a central enforcement tool for the dichotomy between emotional ‘feature’ stories and…

  • Toward a humanistic turn for a more ethical journalism

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 20

    This article argues that the social scientific epistemology that has dominated journalism for the past half-century has devalued the moral implications of public affairs and deprived citizens of the ethical tools necessary to make humane political decisions. Reviewing the contingent history of the integration of journalistic and social scientific methods leading to journalism’s computational turn, the essay calls for a humanistic reconceptualizat…

  • Researching With Our Hair on Fire: Three Frameworks for Rethinking News in a Postnormative World

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism & Mass Communication…•2020

    This article urges a jolt in journalism theory commensurate with the urgent state of planetary affairs—including catastrophic climate change and spreading authoritarianism—that journalism’s weaknesses have helped to precipitate and that its strengths might help to contain. The article explores three conceptual frameworks offering alternative approaches to conceiving news that might disrupt the stasis of our polarized societies: “existential journ…

  • Is Climate Change a Crisis – And Who Says So? An Analysis of Climate Characterization in Major U.S. News Media

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Environmental Communication•2020

    This study measures characterizations of global climate change as an actual or impending “crisis” in major U.S. news media over several years to assess levels of alarm over climate change and related issues as expressed by journalists and their sources, and to determine whether major focusing events such as periodic reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change affect source and journalist characterization of the issue. Results indicat…

  • Down the Middle”: CNN 10 and the Ideology of Objectivity

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2021•References: 17

    CNN 10 is a popular digital news show that explicitly targets schoolchildren with reporting branded as “objective.” The show helps to introduce many young people into Western news logics, but it has received little scrutiny in media scholarship. This critical textual analysis examines the show’s content in light of its metajournalistic ideology, focusing on coverage of U.S. elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, and environmental disasters. Analysis s…

  • Joy is a News Value

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2021•Cited by: 16•References: 15

    This paper proposes that journalism scholars adopt joy as an explicit news value and adjust their epistemological and methodological approaches to news accordingly. Establishing that normative conceptions and practices of news tend toward the negative, the paper upends what journalism should privilege—reorienting the minds of journalists and audiences toward affective characteristics of people and events that evoke well-being, delight, and courag…

  • Poetry and Journalism Revisited: Toward an Affective Dimension of Journalism Culture

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Communication Theory•2021•Cited by: 2•References: 21

    This article seeks to reconcile disparate conceptions of thinking and feeling in journalism by foregrounding an affective dimension of news epistemology through the example of journalistic poetry. Drawing from Archibald MacLeish’s classic 20th-century lecture linking knowledge and the imagination, and locating Postema and Deuze’s continuum of journalism and the arts within Hanitzsch’s broader framework of journalism culture, I explore the generat…

  • Choosing Joy as Methodology in Journalism Research

    Open Access•Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2021•References: 33

    This article seeks to complicate notions that research methods in journalism and media communication should necessarily be preceded or driven by research questions, suggesting that researchers who prioritize methods that bring them joy might discover questions they wouldn’t otherwise know to ask. The article first explores methodology as a lifestyle choice through the framework of non-representational theory. It then examines literature on postco…

  • Promises Granted: Venture Philanthropy and Tech Ideology in Metajournalistic Discourse

    Brian Creech, Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2021•Cited by: 7•References: 23

    The past half-decade has seen the rise of venture philanthropy in the journalism industry, a kind of charitable giving often driven by tech industry actors Google and Facebook working through intermediary institutions such as the Knight Foundation and the American Journalism Project. As an ideological project, this intervention symbolizes both a significant economic and cultural investment. This paper interrogates how venture philanthropists and …

  • Foregrounding Backgrounds: How Scientists Conceive Art to Express the Invisible

    Open Access•Perry Parks, Linda R White•ARTICLE•Science Communication•2021•References: 30

    Scientist-artist collaborations have become a high-profile form of science communication as scientists seek creative ways to connect with publics. This qualitative case study examines one such collaboration from the perspective of scientist and artist participants’ experiences with the purpose and meaning of art. To do so, we draw on John Dewey’s concept of art as experience and Nigel Thrift and other nonrepresentational theorists’ emphasis on ov…

  • Showing They Care (Or Don't): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok

    Open Access•Samantha Hautea, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2021•Cited by: 38•References: 35

    The microvideo platform TikTok has emerged as a popular hub for self-expression and social activism, particularly for youth, but use of the platform's affective affordances to spread awareness of important issues has not been adequately studied. Through an exploratory multimodal discourse analysis of a sample of popular climate change-hashtagged TikTok videos, we examine how affordances of visibility, editability, and association facilitate the f…

  • Senses of Truth and Journalism’s Epistemic Crisis

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journal of Media Ethics•2022

    Journalists’ and publics’ relationship with truth-telling is so messy because the term “truth” holds multitudes of competing senses that are rarely acknowledged in journalism discourse. People approach contested subjects from many, sometimes incommensurate, senses of truth. When journalists fail to identify the competing senses embedded in varying truth claims, they reproduce confusion as to the validity and verifiability of such claims and contr…

  • Disastrous to Take a Single Note”: Memory and Materiality in a Century of U.S. Journalism Textbooks

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2022•References: 26

    In this paper, I examine the highly contested professional discourse around journalistic notetaking through 125 years of U.S. reporting textbooks, exploring how professional practices have been presented, rationalized, and justified in succeeding eras of modern journalism. Analyzing through a cultural lens and material theories of “objects of journalism,” the study offers insight into developing perceptions of journalists’ ethical obligations to …

  • An Overdue Contribution: Mass Communication Theory in the Security of Democracy

    Michael Mcdevitt, Perry Parks et al.•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2022•References: 24

  • How U.S.-based children’s news show CNN 10 reproduces neoliberal hegemony: A critical discourse analysis

    Perry Parks•ARTICLE•The Communication Review•2023

    This study critically explores discourses of hegemonic neoliberalism on the digital news show CNN 10, which is explicitly produced for student audiences and shown in classrooms to millions of young people. Drawing on theories of hegemony, neoliberalism, and positioning, analysis of 102 episode transcripts shows that CNN 10’s young audience is interpellated occasionally as students, rarely as citizens, and almost always as nascent workers, consume…

  • Media and partisanship in energy transition: Towards a new synthesis

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