Cozy Journalism

The rise of social cohesion as an ideal in online, participatory journalism

Bibliographic Data

ID7499299
AuthorsSteen Steensen (0000-0003-2675-1817, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume5
Issue6
Pages687-703
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2011.604243
OpenAlexW1972290698
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited19

In recent years applications like CoveritLive have diffused with great speed throughout online newsrooms. Such technologies create an interface where audience participation and journalistic reporting potentially merge into a text-production system marked by a high degree of immediacy and interactivity. This paper investigates the consequences of such practices for the professional ideology of journalism. What norms and ideals do journalists who initiate and partake in such practices adhere to? To what degree does their practice conflict with traditional ideals of journalistic reporting? The paper analyses the “live” coverage of football matches in the two most popular Norwegian online newspapers, VG Nett and dagbladet.no. The findings suggest that the merger of audience participation and immediacy creates conflicts of ideals for the journalists involved, and that ideals of subjectivity and social cohesion are promoted by such practices of journalism

Citizen journalism · Framing (construction · Ideology · Immediacy · Interactivity · Journalism · Media studies · Multimedia · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Media and Politics · History · Law

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