Comparing Risks to Journalism

Media Criticism in the Digital Hate

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22010699
AutoresDavid Cheruiyot (0000-0002-4774-4643, University of Groningen, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume12
Fascículo3
Páginas294-313
Data de publicação2024-03-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDigital Journalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21670811.2022.2030243
OpenAlexW4213259353
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas45

This study examines digital media criticism—publicly shared evaluations and judgements of journalistic text and actors on various digital platforms—as a risk to journalism. It specifically interrogates how journalists negotiate the diverse nature of criticism in digital spaces and in a comparative context. Through qualitative interviews with practising journalists, the paper identifies the following four main journalistic responses to digital media criticism: consolidation (ringfencing journalistic discourse); filtering (cleaning up journalistic discourse); rationalisation (acknowledging criticism or non-responses) and counter-discourse (counteracting anti-media discourses). These responses, referred to as forms of digital discursive resistance, show that journalists are both defensive against and accommodating of risks to journalistic authority, but usually aim to reinforce and expand journalistic discourse in digital spaces

Criticism · Digital media · Journalism · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Media and Politics