Scott A Eldridge
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 159785 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Scott A Eldridge |
| PRENOMES | Scott A |
| SOBRENOME | Eldridge |
| ASSINATURA | ELDRIDGE S A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2184-1509 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 235 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Echoing the Call
This article joins the call to protect academic freedom and freedom of expression in scholarly work. In our commentary, we reflect on how Digital Journalism has long provided a space for
Space for Solidarity? Studying Women Journalists’ Experiences of Covering Minoritized Groups
Internet memes, populist campaigns
This study examines how socially and culturally ingrained visual semiotic resources are used to demonstrate netizens’ affinities with ‘the people’ and dislikes of ‘the elite’ in expressions of online and bottom-up national populism in China. Using a methodological framework that integrates multimodal discourse analysis with a study of ideology, semiotics, and intertextuality, we study ‘weaponized’ Internet memes that were generated during three D…
Intersectional solidarity, empathy, or pity? Exploring representations of migrant women in German and British newspapers during the pandemic
This research examines migrant women's representation in British and German news during the COVID-19 pandemic, paying particular attention to expressions of solidarity. While previous research has focused on the representation of women and migrants, studies have largely treated these groups as distinct entities. Combining topic modelling with informed grounded theory, this research compares the representation of migrant women, including women fro…
Tactics of Disconnection
This article explores the complex, multi-layered mechanisms of internet censorship in China, emphasizing its role as both a tool of control over public engagement and a mechanism for elites to disconnect themselves from spaces of public scrutiny, and avoid potential threats such as doxxing by bottom-up populist online movements. Through in-depth interviews with social media users, this study investigates how individuals perceive, assess, and navi…
Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Media Innovation and Change
An innovation and change discourse has become central in journalism studies scholarship concerned with highlighting solutions to the many challenges confronting media in the digital era. Although with good intentions, these debates have been predominantly technocentric in their imagination of media’s future, inadvertently directing its development towards a preoccupation with mastering digital technologies. On the one hand, media have strategical…
Contesting the Mainstream
In order to better understand alternative news media, we need to focus more centrally on the audiences that regularly consume them. This special issue, entitled “Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding Alternative News Media,” advances such an audience turn. In the introduction, we outline how scholars have understood and characterized alternative news audiences. These have ranged from seeing them as (i) ideal participants and activists; as (ii)…
A Balance of Uncertainties
In this commentary, I look back on ten years of Digital Journalism, and our shared efforts to define a field of Digital Journalism Studies. In doing so, I reflect on the strengths of our field as a socialized space as it has matured, and address two focal points, balance and uncertainty, which have centered my thinking about Digital Journalism Studies research. I then offer three recommendations for our field going forward: to prioritize offering…
Who are the people? Populists’ articulation of “the people” in contemporary China
Discerning what populists mean by the people is crucial for understanding populism. However, the appeals populists make to the people differ across political systems, with distinctions particularly evident between democratic contexts and one-party states such as China. Articulations of the people in Chinese populist communication remain underexplored, which is a gap this paper addresses by clarifying how the people is constructed in the discourse…
On the Margins
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately negative affect on women, especially women from minoritized groups. Minority news media are an important information source for these groups, when it comes to providing alternative views, and health related information. Whilst the poor representation of women in COVID-19 related mainstream news coverage is acknowledged, little is known regarding the representation of women in digital minority new…
The discursive logics of online populism
This paper explores online bottom-up populism in China by examining the discursive logics of populism that emerge within expressions of populist discontent. Through a conceptualization of the affordances of social media that considers what they enable alongside what they constrain, it uses a computational grounded theory approach to examine individuals’ posts and the use of hashtags in online communication on Sina Weibo around the #DrivingIntoThe…
The Institutions Changing Journalism
Bringing together original contributions from a worldwide group of scholars, this book critically explores the changing role and influence of institutions in the production of news. Drawing from a diverse set of disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, research paradigms and perspectives, and methodologies, each chapter explores different institutions currently impacting journalism, including government bodies, businesses, technological platform…
Understanding Alternative News Media and Its Contribution to Diversity
In this introduction to the special issue Contesting the Mainstream: Understanding Alternative News Media and its Contribution to Diversity, we discuss how and to what extent alternative news media contribute to news diversity. We elaborate on the concept of diversity, the democratic role of media and the normative implications of the position of alternative media in the wider media sphere. Based on the articles published in this special issue, t…
Definitions of Digital Journalism (Studies)
Closing the Cover
Definitions of Digital Journalism (Studies)
Resisting the News
Diversifying Diversity in Digital Journalism Studies
In 2019, we invited leading scholars to not only define but consider the future of digital journalism studies research. As an editorial team, we also introduced the Digital Journalism Studies Compa
Disintermediation in Social Networks
While often treated as distinct, both politics and journalism share in their histories a need for a public that is not naturally assembled and needs instead to be ‘constructed’. In earlier times the role of mediating politics to publics often fell to news media, which were also dependent on constructing a ‘public’ for their own viability. It is hardly notable to say this has changed in a digital age, and in the way social media have allowed polit…
Hero or Anti-Hero? Journalists and their Stories
By its nature, news focuses on unique occurrences—the latest details and newest revelations about what’s going on in the world. But some news stories are extraordinary. They come at us in bold type
Where Do We Draw the Line? Interlopers, (Ant)agonists, and an Unbounded Journalistic Field
Journalism’s once-neglected periphery has been a focus of academic research in recent years and the urge to make sense of interlopers from the periphery has brought about many approaches to understanding these changes. In this essay I reflect on an ongoing research agenda examining one particular category of interlopers: provocative media actors who have openly challenged the boundaries of the journalistic field. These actors raise questions as t…
Navigating the Scholarly Terrain
This article by the Digital Journalism Editorial Team surfaces with the explicit ambition to reassess the field of Digital Journalism Studies and map a future editorial agenda for Digital Journalism. The article dissects two important and closely interrelated questions: “What is ‘digital journalism’?”, and “What is ‘digital journalism studies’?” Building on the commissioned conceptual articles and the review article also published in this issue, …
Journalism and Social Media
This thematic issue sets out to explore the power relationships between journalism and social media. The articles here examine these relationships as intersections between journalistic actors and their audiences, and between news media, their content, and the functions of social media platforms. As the articles in this issue show, the emergence of social media and their adoption by news media and other social actors have brought about a series of…
The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies
A paradigmatic shift is sometimes revealed by an unanticipated and extraordinary event, and so it was with Edward Snowden in 2013. A National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Snowden was so appalled at the exponential expansion of covert digital surveillance that he decided it was his moral duty to inform the public, indeed the world. This he did from a hotel room in Hong Kong when he gave a small group of selected journalists access to 1.7 mill…
Negotiating Uncertain Claims
Recent developments in the relations between politicians and journalists in the US have (among other things) created a situation where journalists often have to deal with information that is very difficult, even impossible, to verify, yet which has potential societal significance that cannot be ignored. This has, we argue, affected how journalists and journalistic outlets relate to each other within what we tentatively term an inferential communi…
Online Journalism from the Periphery
Online Journalism from the Periphery looks at how a range of new media actors, communicating online, have challenged us to think differently about the journalistic field. Emerging from the disruption of digital technology, these new actors have been met with resistance by an existing core of journalism, who perceive them as part of a ‘digital threat’ and dismiss their claims of journalistic belonging. As a result, cracks are appearing in the conc…
Boundary Maintenance and Interloper Media Reaction
In his fictional story “The Interlopers”, Saki tells of two men fighting over the rights to a wooded hunting land. While both have long claimed the right to the land, one holds the legal right and the other—the interloper—claims to belong (Saki 1930). This story forms the allegorical locus of this paper, examining the way a self-defined in-group of traditional journalism protects its perceived professional identity against entities—Interloper Med…
Where Do We Draw the Line? Interlopers, (Ant)agonists, and an Unbounded Journalistic Field
Journalism’s once-neglected periphery has been a focus of academic research in recent years and the urge to make sense of interlopers from the periphery has brought about many approaches to understanding these changes. In this essay I reflect on an ongoing research agenda examining one particular category of interlopers: provocative media actors who have openly challenged the boundaries of the journalistic field. These actors raise questions as t…
Thank god for Deadspin
Interlopers are a class of digital-peripheral journalists and outlets who position their work as journalism, but who have struggled to be recognized as such. While we have long acknowledged journalism’s place online, as digital-peripheral journalists interlopers face challenges when it comes to appreciating their work as news and their contributions as journalism. This article argues their contributions warrant further evaluation as the journalis…
Navigating the Scholarly Terrain
This article by the Digital Journalism Editorial Team surfaces with the explicit ambition to reassess the field of Digital Journalism Studies and map a future editorial agenda for Digital Journalism. The article dissects two important and closely interrelated questions: “What is ‘digital journalism’?”, and “What is ‘digital journalism studies’?” Building on the commissioned conceptual articles and the review article also published in this issue, …
Journalism and Social Media
This thematic issue sets out to explore the power relationships between journalism and social media. The articles here examine these relationships as intersections between journalistic actors and their audiences, and between news media, their content, and the functions of social media platforms. As the articles in this issue show, the emergence of social media and their adoption by news media and other social actors have brought about a series of…
Normative expectations
Journalism's relationship with the public has historically rested on an assumption of its Fourth Estate roles and as fulfilling democratic imperatives. The normative dimensions of these ideals have also long been “taken as given” in journalism studies, serving as a starting point for discussions of journalism's public service, interest, and role. As contradictions to these normative ideals expose flaws in such assumptions, a reassessment of this …
Hero or Anti-Hero
Exploring constructions of journalistic identity in a digital age has been a lively area of \nscholarship as the field of digital journalism studies has grown (Franklin 2013, 2014; Steensen \nand Ahva 2015). Yet despite many approaches to understanding digital change, key avenues \nfor understanding changing constructions of identity remain underexplored. This paper \naddresses a conceptual void in research literature by employing semiotic and se…
The discursive logics of online populism
This paper explores online bottom-up populism in China by examining the discursive logics of populism that emerge within expressions of populist discontent. Through a conceptualization of the affordances of social media that considers what they enable alongside what they constrain, it uses a computational grounded theory approach to examine individuals’ posts and the use of hashtags in online communication on Sina Weibo around the #DrivingIntoThe…
Morbid Symptoms
This paper argues that despite an appearance of rupture, journalism is in an era of good fortune. While it would be both premature and historically naïve to point at a new “golden era”, there is reason to see a strengthening of journalism's sense of core responsibilities emerging from the challenges and opportunities which new technologies present. With an eye towards journalism's history as a force with the potential to feed contemporary debate,…
On the Margins
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately negative affect on women, especially women from minoritized groups. Minority news media are an important information source for these groups, when it comes to providing alternative views, and health related information. Whilst the poor representation of women in COVID-19 related mainstream news coverage is acknowledged, little is known regarding the representation of women in digital minority new…
Resisting the News
Hero or Anti-Hero? Journalists and their Stories
By its nature, news focuses on unique occurrences—the latest details and newest revelations about what’s going on in the world. But some news stories are extraordinary. They come at us in bold type
Space for Solidarity? Studying Women Journalists’ Experiences of Covering Minoritized Groups
Internet memes, populist campaigns
This study examines how socially and culturally ingrained visual semiotic resources are used to demonstrate netizens’ affinities with ‘the people’ and dislikes of ‘the elite’ in expressions of online and bottom-up national populism in China. Using a methodological framework that integrates multimodal discourse analysis with a study of ideology, semiotics, and intertextuality, we study ‘weaponized’ Internet memes that were generated during three D…
Intersectional solidarity, empathy, or pity? Exploring representations of migrant women in German and British newspapers during the pandemic
This research examines migrant women's representation in British and German news during the COVID-19 pandemic, paying particular attention to expressions of solidarity. While previous research has focused on the representation of women and migrants, studies have largely treated these groups as distinct entities. Combining topic modelling with informed grounded theory, this research compares the representation of migrant women, including women fro…
Negotiating Uncertain Claims
Recent developments in the relations between politicians and journalists in the US have (among other things) created a situation where journalists often have to deal with information that is very difficult, even impossible, to verify, yet which has potential societal significance that cannot be ignored. This has, we argue, affected how journalists and journalistic outlets relate to each other within what we tentatively term an inferential communi…
Remaking the News
As a stock take on the field of Digital Journalism Studies, the most resonant observation in Remaking the News is that, for those of us working in digital journalism studies, description is no long
Boundary Maintenance and Interloper Media Reaction
In his fictional story “The Interlopers”, Saki tells of two men fighting over the rights to a wooded hunting land. While both have long claimed the right to the land, one holds the legal right and the other—the interloper—claims to belong (Saki 1930). This story forms the allegorical locus of this paper, examining the way a self-defined in-group of traditional journalism protects its perceived professional identity against entities—Interloper Med…
Livingstone and the legacy of Empire in the journalistic imagination
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin ConboyMartin Conboy, Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Scott Eldridge are affiliated with the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Lugo-OcandoMartin Conboy, Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Scott Eldridge are affiliated with the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.Emails: [email protected]; j.lugo-ocando@sheffi…
Morbid Symptoms
This paper argues that despite an appearance of rupture, journalism is in an era of good fortune. While it would be both premature and historically naïve to point at a new “golden era”, there is reason to see a strengthening of journalism's sense of core responsibilities emerging from the challenges and opportunities which new technologies present. With an eye towards journalism's history as a force with the potential to feed contemporary debate,…
The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
The digitization of journalistic practice, which took off notably with the growing popularity of online media towards the end of the previous millennium, has brought about a number of profound changes for journalism, but arguably none is more significant than the transformation of the relationship between journalists and their audiences. Early in this process, the focus of scholars and practitioners alike turned to the rise of citizen journalism …
The Digital Journalist
The subject of both academic and journalistic attention, Julian Assange has emerged as an emblematic but confrontational figure in digital journalism and as a prominent figure in a group of digital actors who have challenged the status quo of the journalistic field. Boundary disputes prompted by the emergence of digital journalists build on traditional understandings of journalism and rely heavily on normative understandings of what defines journ…
Hero or Anti-Hero
Exploring constructions of journalistic identity in a digital age has been a lively area of \nscholarship as the field of digital journalism studies has grown (Franklin 2013, 2014; Steensen \nand Ahva 2015). Yet despite many approaches to understanding digital change, key avenues \nfor understanding changing constructions of identity remain underexplored. This paper \naddresses a conceptual void in research literature by employing semiotic and se…
Normative expectations
Journalism's relationship with the public has historically rested on an assumption of its Fourth Estate roles and as fulfilling democratic imperatives. The normative dimensions of these ideals have also long been “taken as given” in journalism studies, serving as a starting point for discussions of journalism's public service, interest, and role. As contradictions to these normative ideals expose flaws in such assumptions, a reassessment of this …
Journalism’s Central Tendencies
Journalism&s; has been variously defined around a set of practices, roles, products, and processes, and each of these have helped give journalism a sense of ubiquity in modern societies. This chapter focuses on the core as reflected in a set of familiar practices and maps a traditional centrepoint around which dominant narratives of what journalism &s;is&s; have revolved. By understanding this core, the dynamics of a core–peripheral mapping of th…
Conclusion
To look beyond the core imagination of the journalistic field and to consider interlopers emerging from the periphery is to engage with the way journalism has evolved in modern societies as something socially anticipated and something socially constructed, where certain dominant narratives of journalism have reinforced an idea of what journalism is, or at least what it should be. Semi-autonomous in nature, loosely defined in practice, the journal…
Interrogating the ‘Fourth Estate’
This chapter builds the foundation to shift from the established bases of journalism at the &s;core&s; of the field and embedded in the work of traditional journalistic actors towards analysis of the work of interlopers on the &s;periphery&s;. When considering journalism from the perspective of field theory, one point of attention is on journalism&s;s links to democracy. Where embracing commercialism weakens arguments of a press built around info…
A Journalistic Field
This chapter outlines how from field theory people can understand the visions of what journalism is as the result of socialization and specific forces that have shaped journalists&s; ideas of belonging. Field theory helps describe the underlying forces that shape journalists&s; identity and their societal role. To connect the dominant ideas of journalism to field theory and the journalistic field, it introduces the concepts of doxa, habitus , and…
Interlopers and Journalism I
The claims of journalistic belonging made by emerging digital media actors and embedded in their work have challenged the way people think about journalism. Adversarialism in a journalistic identity is not new. Tensions are not only between Greenwald&s;s and the establishment&s;s vision; there are greater vested interests that also contribute to such disagreements over whether or not such interlopers fit the field. Where a common narrative around…
Interlopers and Journalism II
To approach interlopers as journalism and to propose new ways of seeing the journalistic field is to ask complex questions of what it is to be considered journalism. This chapter sets out ways of thinking about the dynamics of belonging and non-belonging to the journalistic field as tensions between the journalistic &s;observant&s;, and the interloper as journalistic &s;heretic&s;. Field theory has proven useful for understanding a changing journ…
Interlopers and Journalism III
Exploring the &s;intended&s; act of journalism preempts any discussion of journalism in its myriad forms from the traditional newspaper or broadcast to the more diverse media of interlopers. The process of social construction of the field can be explored in three aspects: journalistic identity, journalistic intention , and journalistic realization . Journalistic identity may at first blush seem obvious: identifying as a journalist. However, in a …
Visualizing Journalism
Field theory offers a conceptual way of thinking about journalism as a space of belonging, but its reliance on inherent and sometimes-invisible structures have been a challenge. Where specific actors are more or less successful at breeching the boundaries of the journalistic core, this is reflected visually in a more uniform shaped and larger visual footprint. Though mapping content would likely remain a key consideration in terms of journalistic…
Discours des réseaux sociaux
Amid digital changes to the ways news is mediated, the boundaries of the journalistic field have become less clear. While traditional journalists have embraced many of the opportunities enabled by online media, new actors have emerged demonstrating journalistic capabilities that challenge the boundaries of the journalistic field. Joining field theory and discourse analysis, this chapter explores measures of identity and boundaries apparent in new…
Online Journalism from the Periphery
Online Journalism from the Periphery explores how a range of new media actors, communicating online, have challenged us to think differently about the journalistic field. Emerging from the disruption of digital technology, these new actors have been met with resistance by an existing core of journalism, who perceive them as part of a ‘digital threat’ and dismiss their claims of journalistic belonging. As a result, cracks are appearing in the conc…
Online Journalism from the Periphery
Online Journalism from the Periphery looks at how a range of new media actors, communicating online, have challenged us to think differently about the journalistic field. Emerging from the disruption of digital technology, these new actors have been met with resistance by an existing core of journalism, who perceive them as part of a ‘digital threat’ and dismiss their claims of journalistic belonging. As a result, cracks are appearing in the conc…
The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies
A paradigmatic shift is sometimes revealed by an unanticipated and extraordinary event, and so it was with Edward Snowden in 2013. A National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Snowden was so appalled at the exponential expansion of covert digital surveillance that he decided it was his moral duty to inform the public, indeed the world. This he did from a hotel room in Hong Kong when he gave a small group of selected journalists access to 1.7 mill…
Negotiating Uncertain Claims
Recent developments in the relations between politicians and journalists in the US have (among other things) created a situation where journalists often have to deal with information that is very difficult, even impossible, to verify, yet which has potential societal significance that cannot be ignored. This has, we argue, affected how journalists and journalistic outlets relate to each other within what we tentatively term an inferential communi…
Remaking the News
As a stock take on the field of Digital Journalism Studies, the most resonant observation in Remaking the News is that, for those of us working in digital journalism studies, description is no long
Thank god for Deadspin
Interlopers are a class of digital-peripheral journalists and outlets who position their work as journalism, but who have struggled to be recognized as such. While we have long acknowledged journalism’s place online, as digital-peripheral journalists interlopers face challenges when it comes to appreciating their work as news and their contributions as journalism. This article argues their contributions warrant further evaluation as the journalis…
Disintermediation in Social Networks
While often treated as distinct, both politics and journalism share in their histories a need for a public that is not naturally assembled and needs instead to be ‘constructed’. In earlier times the role of mediating politics to publics often fell to news media, which were also dependent on constructing a ‘public’ for their own viability. It is hardly notable to say this has changed in a digital age, and in the way social media have allowed polit…
Hero or Anti-Hero? Journalists and their Stories
By its nature, news focuses on unique occurrences—the latest details and newest revelations about what’s going on in the world. But some news stories are extraordinary. They come at us in bold type
Where Do We Draw the Line? Interlopers, (Ant)agonists, and an Unbounded Journalistic Field
Journalism’s once-neglected periphery has been a focus of academic research in recent years and the urge to make sense of interlopers from the periphery has brought about many approaches to understanding these changes. In this essay I reflect on an ongoing research agenda examining one particular category of interlopers: provocative media actors who have openly challenged the boundaries of the journalistic field. These actors raise questions as t…
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