Innovation Through Practice

Journalism as a structure of public communication

Bibliographic Data

ID12908682
AuthorsChristoph Raetzsch (0000-0002-1256-2313, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume9
Issue1
Pages65-77
Publication date2014-07-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2014.928466
OpenAlexW1570340518
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited30

Practices of news selection, presentation and distribution have been transposed to the domain of audiences communicating through network media. Media practices of journalists and “media-oriented practices” of audiences (Couldry) make use of the network as a common resource, merging into a new form of “news-based communication.” This new situation of public communication questions institutional approaches to journalism and the crisis it currently experiences. The paper proposes to regard journalism as a structure of public communication which is mutually enacted by journalists and audiences alike. Practice is outlined as a conceptual tool to study how social structures such as journalism can innovate. In practice, cultural schemas value resources of communication and endow actors with agency. As media of public communication are de-differentiated in digital contexts, practice offers a way to understand innovation as the gradual transposition of such schemas to new resources

Agency (philosophy · Communication studies · Digital media · Journalism · Knowledge management · Media relations · Media studies · New media · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Technical Journalism · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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