From gardeners to revolutionaries
The rise of the liquid ethos in political journalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7478077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anu Kantola (0000-0001-7868-0956, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 606-626 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-20 |
| 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 | 10.1177/1464884912454504 |
| OpenAlex | W2146651932 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 43 |
In many newsrooms, journalistic work has increasingly been reorganized in ways that make it more flexible, multi-skilled and assertive, or even ‘liquid’. Empirical studies on liquid journalism, however, are scarce. This article examines how the rise of liquidity can be seen in the work-related ethos of Finnish political journalists. The article is based on 25 in-depth interviews of political journalists. In the findings, three generational groups – the solid moderns, the liquefying moderns, and the liquid moderns – emerge divided roughly by age. These differences reflect a more general change, whereby the organizations of the solid industrial modernity have been flattened and decentralized and, in many professions, the expertise and career prospects have been questioned. In the course of this change, political journalists are developing an anti-institutional and flexible ethos accentuated by opinionated assertiveness – in effect, an ethos of liquid revolutionaries
Assertiveness · Ethos · Journalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Media Studies and Communication · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |