Simon Mcenni
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Mcenni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcenni |
| SIGNATURE | MCENNI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2022-571X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sports journalism and cultural authority in the digital age
This chapter analyses how the bases of sports journalism's cultural authority are being transformed in the digital age. Sports journalism’s occupational boundary work is built around its accreditation to the professional sports environment. Sports journalism has legitimised insider access to sport through its professional ideology while building a powerful occupational mythology around its daily rituals and cross-media presence. These processes h…
Toy department within the toy department? Online sports journalists and professional legitimacy
This study explores the professional legitimacy of online sports journalists as an emergent group within the occupation in the United Kingdom. Two typologies of sports journalists working for national news organisations are identified (traditional and online) and semi-structured interviews conducted with both groups. Drawing on concepts from the sociology of professions, the study applies three sub-definitions of professionalism – normative, cogn…
Following the Action: How live bloggers are reimagining the professional ideology of sports journalism
Live sports blogging is a relatively new form of journalism in wide and frequent use by media companies but has received little attention from the academy. This article outlines a study that explored the belief and value system behind live sports blogging to establish whether shifts were taking place within the professional ideology of sports journalism. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 live sports bloggers in the Unite…
Raising Our Game: Effects of Citizen Journalism on Twitter for Professional Identity and Working Practices of British Sport Journalists
This article presents a study that examined what citizen journalism on Twitter has meant for the professional identity and working practices of British sport journalists, using data from a series of in-depth, semistructured interviews. Sport journalists recognized the need to strive for higher professional standards to ensure that their output is of greater cultural significance than that of citizen journalists. Trust—achieved through the ideolog…
Toy department within the toy department? Online sports journalists and professional legitimacy
This study explores the professional legitimacy of online sports journalists as an emergent group within the occupation in the United Kingdom. Two typologies of sports journalists working for national news organisations are identified (traditional and online) and semi-structured interviews conducted with both groups. Drawing on concepts from the sociology of professions, the study applies three sub-definitions of professionalism – normative, cogn…
Raising Our Game: Effects of Citizen Journalism on Twitter for Professional Identity and Working Practices of British Sport Journalists
This article presents a study that examined what citizen journalism on Twitter has meant for the professional identity and working practices of British sport journalists, using data from a series of in-depth, semistructured interviews. Sport journalists recognized the need to strive for higher professional standards to ensure that their output is of greater cultural significance than that of citizen journalists. Trust—achieved through the ideolog…
Following the Action: How live bloggers are reimagining the professional ideology of sports journalism
Live sports blogging is a relatively new form of journalism in wide and frequent use by media companies but has received little attention from the academy. This article outlines a study that explored the belief and value system behind live sports blogging to establish whether shifts were taking place within the professional ideology of sports journalism. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 live sports bloggers in the Unite…
Raising Our Game: Effects of Citizen Journalism on Twitter for Professional Identity and Working Practices of British Sport Journalists
This article presents a study that examined what citizen journalism on Twitter has meant for the professional identity and working practices of British sport journalists, using data from a series of in-depth, semistructured interviews. Sport journalists recognized the need to strive for higher professional standards to ensure that their output is of greater cultural significance than that of citizen journalists. Trust—achieved through the ideolog…
Following the Action: How live bloggers are reimagining the professional ideology of sports journalism
Live sports blogging is a relatively new form of journalism in wide and frequent use by media companies but has received little attention from the academy. This article outlines a study that explored the belief and value system behind live sports blogging to establish whether shifts were taking place within the professional ideology of sports journalism. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 live sports bloggers in the Unite…
Sports journalism and cultural authority in the digital age
This chapter analyses how the bases of sports journalism's cultural authority are being transformed in the digital age. Sports journalism’s occupational boundary work is built around its accreditation to the professional sports environment. Sports journalism has legitimised insider access to sport through its professional ideology while building a powerful occupational mythology around its daily rituals and cross-media presence. These processes h…
Toy department within the toy department? Online sports journalists and professional legitimacy
This study explores the professional legitimacy of online sports journalists as an emergent group within the occupation in the United Kingdom. Two typologies of sports journalists working for national news organisations are identified (traditional and online) and semi-structured interviews conducted with both groups. Drawing on concepts from the sociology of professions, the study applies three sub-definitions of professionalism – normative, cogn…
Journalism (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works)