From magazines to blogs

The shifting boundaries of fashion journalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7477243
AutoresLydia Cheng (0000-0002-7468-464X, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, autor de correspondencia), Edson C Tandoc (0000-0002-8740-9313, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Año2021
Volumen23
Número6
Páginas1213-1232
Fecha de publicación2021-01-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884920988183
OpenAlexW3125488716
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas46

Current literature examining journalism’s boundary work has focused mostly on traditional, hard news journalism, while soft news journalism, such as lifestyle journalism, has largely been overlooked. Guided by the framework of boundary work, this paper examines how traditional fashion journalists and fashion bloggers define their own professionalism and what that says about the negotiation of fashion journalism’s boundaries. Through a textual analysis of the ‘About’ pages of 40 mainstream fashion magazine websites and fashion blogs, this paper shows that fashion magazines and fashion blogs demonstrate differences in four areas: mode of presentation, rituals of asserting authority, organisational structure, and relationship with the audience. For each theme, fashion magazine websites and fashion blogs display different approaches that help to shape their professional identities. These four areas serve as markers of the emerging – and perhaps blurring – boundaries between the two media actors. Findings from this study have implications not just on boundary work in journalism, but also on the very definitions of journalist and journalism, and on the evolving digital cultural industry, particularly in relation to lifestyle-centred content

Boundary-work · Citizen journalism · Journalism · Mainstream · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Theme (computing · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Law