Journalistic authority : legitimating news in the digital era / Matt Carlson.

By:

Carlson, Matt, 1977- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780231543095

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN4888 .J687 2017

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Many Relationships of Journalism -- Part One. Foundations of Journalistic Authority -- Chapter One. Professionalism as Privilege and Distance: Journalistic Identity -- Chapter Two. Texts and Textual Authority: Forms of Journalism -- Chapter Three. Telling Stories About Themselves: Journalism's Narratives -- Part Two. Journalistic Authority in Context -- Chapter Four. Recognizing Journalistic Authority: The Public's Opinion -- Chapter Five. Legitimating Knowledge Through Knowers: News Sources -- Chapter Six. Mediating Authority: The Technologies of Journalism -- Chapter Seven. Challenging Journalistic Authority: The Role of Media Criticism -- Conclusion: The Politics of Journalistic Authority -- Notes -- Index.

Subject: When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a quality of the connections between those laying claim to being an authority and those who assent to it. Matt Carlson examines the practices journalists use to legitimate their work: professional orientation, development of specific news forms, and the personal narratives they circulate to support a privileged social place. He then considers journalists' relationships with the audiences, sources, technologies, and critics that shape journalistic authority in the contemporary media environment. Carlson argues that journalistic authority is always the product of complex and variable relationships. By creating a schema to account for this complexity, he presents a new model for critiquing journalism while advocating for the norms and practices we want to be authoritative.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PN4888.25 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn985806788

Includes bibliographies and index.

When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a quality of the connections between those laying claim to being an authority and those who assent to it. Matt Carlson examines the practices journalists use to legitimate their work: professional orientation, development of specific news forms, and the personal narratives they circulate to support a privileged social place. He then considers journalists' relationships with the audiences, sources, technologies, and critics that shape journalistic authority in the contemporary media environment. Carlson argues that journalistic authority is always the product of complex and variable relationships. By creating a schema to account for this complexity, he presents a new model for critiquing journalism while advocating for the norms and practices we want to be authoritative.

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.