Seeing, Thinking, Feeling
A Critical Reflection on Interview-based Methods for Studying News Use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7511271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Groot Kormelink (0000-0001-5374-7536, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 863-878 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-670X • E-ISSN: 1469-9699 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1461670x.2020.1716829 |
| OpenAlex | W3025681480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 61 |
This article aims to provide a resource for journalism researchers looking to use a qualitative approach to study news use. It seeks to go beyond justifying qualitative methods vis-à-vis quantitative methods and to be more reflective and critical regarding the limitations and possibilities of the qualitative interview. Making the case for taking experience as point of departure for studying news use, the article explicates this notion by drawing from different theoretical conceptions of experience. Based on three recent user studies, the article critically reflects upon three interview-based methods that center around users’ experience of news use—the think-aloud protocol, watching and discussing news, and the two-sided video-ethnography—and discusses their theoretical, methodological and epistemological implications. A common thread emerging from the different user studies is that people require support to be able to access and communicate their experiences of news use. The methods discussed proved successful at doing so, respectively by having informants comment on what they saw right in front of them (see), by giving them the tools and the vocabulary to reflect on a prior experience (think), and by bringing them in touch with their sensations of using news (feel
Epistemology · Feeling · Journalism · Linguistics · Media studies · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Think aloud protocol · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Media Influence and Health · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
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| Citations per year | 4,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |