Knowing in Journalistic Practice
Ethnography in a public broadcasting company
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12909583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aare Värk (University of Tartu, corresponding author), Eneli Kindsiko (0000-0001-9466-6070, University of Tartu) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 298-313 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17512786.2018.1424022 |
| OpenAlex | W2783350673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article reports the outcomes of an ethnographic study in a public broadcasting company exploring on-the-job learning and knowing in journalistic practice. We use practice perspective and social learning theory to study how knowing in everyday work is achieved within journalists’ communities of practice and in relation to other practices around journalism. A year-long study involved analysis of 19 on-site observations, 25 interviews, over 30 textual company based documents and over 120 photos. We found that journalists’ communities of practice are actively negotiating a shared understanding of good practice. At the same time, individual journalists are relatively free to choose how they use this collective knowledge resource, enabling a creative tension between shared understanding of good practice and individual performances of that practice. Journalists are also responsive to ongoing and anticipated future changes within the practices they align with—practices that are reported about, journalistic practices of other public broadcasting companies and practices of the audience. We, therefore, argue for an understanding of journalistic practice as open-ended and performative, rather than fixed and routine
Aesthetics · Broadcasting (networking · Community of practice · Engineering ethics · Ethnography · Good practice · Journalism · Media studies · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Political science · Practice theory · Public relations · Relation (database · Resource (disambiguation · Social practice · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics
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Putting it in context
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |