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Dealing with the mess (we made)

Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies

Bibliographic Data

ID7478591
AuthorsTamara Witschge (0000-0002-7642-4868, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, corresponding author), C W Anderson (0000-0002-3893-8411), CW Anderson (University of Leeds), David Domingo (0000-0002-0439-6829, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Alfred Hermida (0000-0002-4632-3791, The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Year2018
Volume20
Issue5
Pages651-659
Publication date2018-03-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884918760669
OpenAlexW2793321426
LanguageEN
Citations received48
References cited27

In this article, we discuss the rise and use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies. Hybridity afforded a meaningful intervention in a discipline that had the tendency to focus on a stabilized and homogeneous understanding of the field. Nonetheless, we now need to reconsider its deployment, as it only partially allows us to address and understand the developments in journalism. We argue that if scholarship is to move forward in a productive manner, we need, rather than denote everything that is complex as hybrid, to develop new approaches to our object of study. Ultimately, this is an open invitation to the field to adopt experientialist, practice-based approaches that help us overcome the ultimately limited binary dualities that have long governed our theoretical and empirical work in the field

Binary opposition · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Hybridity · Journalism · Media studies · Object (grammar · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Software deployment · Anthropology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Artificial Intelligence · Law · Philosophy

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Citations per year6
Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 48

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