Aporias of digital journalism

Bibliographic Data

ID7477553
AuthorsEjvind Hansen (0000-0002-5094-4355, Danish School of Media and Journalism, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume14
Issue5
Pages678-694
Publication date2012-07-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884912453283
OpenAlexW1975475380
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited11

The internet poses, in certain ways, a problem for journalists: on the one hand, it is evidently a marvellous tool for investigative work, for the rapid dissemination of information, and for creating new news platforms with new constituencies; on the other hand, these constituencies, habituated to the real time coordinates of internet communication, are impatient with the old rhythms of the news cycle, and impatient with forms of journalistic authority that were formed in the era of one-way mass medias. The very status of the journalist as reporter or opinion maker has been put into question as the bar to entry for creating a mass media audience has lowered dramatically – which was first noticed when bloggers of all types rose to prominence. This article presents an account of journalism that relates thematically to the idea that the future of journalism lies primarily in the journalist as editor, moderator and curator. We suggest, however, that these accounts need a twist in order to incorporate the critical ethos of journalism. Journalists should not be thought of merely as those who edit, moderate and curate already ongoing dialogues. Journalists should also help to show the blank spots of ongoing dialogues, in order to make the silent voices heard. Journalists should facilitate an awareness of which voices are not heard in the ongoing dialogues. To show this, we articulate a Derridean deconstruction of the situation of journalists, hereby showing that the founding aporias of journalism (the aporia of giving and denying voices) have been replaced by an aporia of giving and denying room for dialogue

Citizen journalism · Ethos · Journalism · Media studies · Moderation · Order (exchange · Political science · Sociology · Technical Journalism · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Law · Social Psychology

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