Transcultural journalism and the politics of translation
Interrogating the BBC World Service
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7477909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerd Baumann (0000-0003-1642-2462, AISSR, The Netherlands), M Gillespie (0000-0002-2982-1107, The Open University), Annabelle Sreberny (0000-0003-2460-1161, SOAS University of London) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-142 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884910388580 |
| OpenAlex | W1992703874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 2 |
When George Orwell worked for the BBC Eastern Services during the Second World War, he regarded it as ‘an organ of colonial discourse propagating the word and world view of the metropolitan centre to its peripheral subject people’ (Kerr, 2002: 473–90). Orwell’s misgivings about his own journalistic practice and the BBC Eastern Service’s suspected ideological functions may pose an enduring dilemma for some journalists, but many are delighted to endure the processes of recruitment, induction, training and enculturation into the BBC’s hegemonic, globally diffused brand of impartial journalism. This is called, with some self-irony, ‘being BBCed’ by journalists working in, or for, Bush House. The BBC’s overseas services (now the World Service) have long relied on an army of diasporic translators and ‘the right kind of voice’ to disseminate news across the globe. The long-standing reputation of the BBC World Service (BBCWS) among the world’s pre-eminent broadcasters and its credibility have depended on the largely undocumented and unexplored everyday transcultural encounters and translation practices that have taken place in the diasporic and cosmopolitan contact zones of Bush House. This special issue draws on a collaborative empirical research project on the BBC World Service to examine wider issues of the politics, ethics and practices of transcultural journalism and the politics of translation
Hegemony · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Philippine History and Culture · Translation Studies and Practices · Law
Understanding Transcultural Communication and Middle East Politics Through Al Jazeera Practices
Transcultural political communication from the perspective of proximization theory
On the cross-disciplinary conundrum
Navigating translation equivalence in news corpora
Rebuilding old empire
The three lives of Gerd Baumann
Corpus approaches to news translation
Translation without a source text
Socio-political narratives in translated English-Greek news headlines
Reshaping Protest Coverage Through Translation
On the Interface Between Journalism and Translation Studies
Ideological shifts in the BBC headlines translated into Ukrainian and Russian
Fifteen years of journalistic translation research and more
Implicit evaluation in ‘impartial’ reporting
Traditional written media coverage and cybersecurity events
Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots
La selección de contenidos y la política de traducción en BBC Mundo y BBC Brasil
On the use of the term ‘translation’ in journalism studies
Interdisciplinary approaches to journalistic translation
The translation of multimedia news stories
Soft Power, Hard News
Gatekeeping, ideological affinity and journalistic translation
Selective appropriation in the BBC news translated into Ukrainian and Russian
Manipulation of translation in hard news reporting on the Gulf crisis
From the Dutch corantos to Convergence Journalism
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,79 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |