Producing Journalistic Authority in the Age of Digital Media

Temporality, Media Affordance, and Ethical Reflexivity in Turkey’s Media Sphere

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ID12410074
AuthorsNazlı Özkan (0000-0001-7085-5934, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume37
Issue1
Pages100-119
Publication date2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/var.12226
OpenAlexW3165763320
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

This article examines how journalists in Turkey form their authority and strengthen control over their news craft in the digital age through processing ( işlemek ) the news. Processing combines two crucial components: ethical engagement with news stories and a flexible time frame. Drawing on ethnographic and visual analysis of televisual, newspaper, and internet production at Turkey’s socialist Yüzyıl newspaper, I argue that journalists invest more heavily in non‐digital mediums like television and print because they provide a more flexible temporality to process information through investigation and ethical deliberation

Affordance · Art · Citizen journalism · Craft · Deliberation · Digital media · Ethnography · Media studies · Mediation · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Visual arts · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Turkey's Politics and Society

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