Kim Smeenk
Biographic Data
| ID | 6715898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Smeenk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Smeenk |
| SIGNATURE | SMEENK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5759-1639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Highlighting and downplaying subjectivity through ethos construction: Personal journalism as a pluriform epistemic practice
Individual experiences have gained more prominence as a reliable alternative source of knowledge in the last decades. This personalization of knowledge has far-reaching consequences for journalism. This article studies the rise of personal journalism, in which journalists play a central role in the stories they write, and analyses how this impacts the epistemological underpinning of journalism. Through a quantitative content analysis of tabloid a…
The Reporter as First-Person Witness: Eyewitnessing and Subjectivity in Epistemic Authority Claims in Personal Journalism
When Journalists Share Their Happy Feelings: Affective Connection as a Source of Reliability in Personal Journalism
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences
This theoretical article presents ethos as a conceptual framework to understand journalism’s authority and shifting epistemologies. We argue that ethos, the strategic self-image of the journalist in the text, is an essential part of the performative potential of journalism, even in detached “objective” journalism where journalists are seemingly absent in their articles. Analyzing journalism from an ethos perspective, elucidates how journalists bu…
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences
This theoretical article presents ethos as a conceptual framework to understand journalism’s authority and shifting epistemologies. We argue that ethos, the strategic self-image of the journalist in the text, is an essential part of the performative potential of journalism, even in detached “objective” journalism where journalists are seemingly absent in their articles. Analyzing journalism from an ethos perspective, elucidates how journalists bu…
When Journalists Share Their Happy Feelings: Affective Connection as a Source of Reliability in Personal Journalism
The journalist in the story. Conceptualizing ethos as integral framework to study news production, news texts and news audiences
This theoretical article presents ethos as a conceptual framework to understand journalism’s authority and shifting epistemologies. We argue that ethos, the strategic self-image of the journalist in the text, is an essential part of the performative potential of journalism, even in detached “objective” journalism where journalists are seemingly absent in their articles. Analyzing journalism from an ethos perspective, elucidates how journalists bu…
Highlighting and downplaying subjectivity through ethos construction: Personal journalism as a pluriform epistemic practice
Individual experiences have gained more prominence as a reliable alternative source of knowledge in the last decades. This personalization of knowledge has far-reaching consequences for journalism. This article studies the rise of personal journalism, in which journalists play a central role in the stories they write, and analyses how this impacts the epistemological underpinning of journalism. Through a quantitative content analysis of tabloid a…
The Reporter as First-Person Witness: Eyewitnessing and Subjectivity in Epistemic Authority Claims in Personal Journalism
When Journalists Share Their Happy Feelings: Affective Connection as a Source of Reliability in Personal Journalism
Journalism (4 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethos (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Objectivity (philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (2 works)