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Journalism
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Publications (54)
January 2022
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Memory Mind & Media
This article looks to journalism in order to understand the relationship between memory, mind and media more fully. Using the urgency that characterises the current news environment as a reflection of broader information flows, the article considers journalism's embrace of complex time to address the demands of speed. It suggests that the temporal practices adopted by both individual journalists and the journalistic community offer a model for institutions wrestling with the ontological uncertainty generated by current times, providing mechanisms to navigate and even offset the unending demands of simultaneity, immediacy and instantaneity.
June 2021
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Media Culture & Society
This article considers the role of temporality in institutional settings, with particular emphasis on the positioning and impact of temporal choices—or their absence—in journalism. It first discusses why temporality is relevant to institutions like journalism and considers its two interrelated dominant manifestations in the news: nowness and firstness. It then addresses temporality in the current US coverage of the Trump administration. Finally, it considers the need for journalism’s reset, arguing that the combined effect of nowness and firstness promotes temporality’s neglect in the news and prevents the continual updating of the journalistic mindset from occurring.
March 2019
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180 Citations
This article addresses the relationship between digital technology and journalism, arguing that defining journalism in conjunction with its technology short-circuits a comprehensive picture of journalism. Not only does it obscure the incremental nature and detrimental effects of change in journalism, but it sidelines the recognition of what stays stable in journalism across technological change. Tracing the advantages and shortcomings of expectations that digital journalism is more democratic, transparent, novel and participatory, the article argues that it is journalism that gives technology purpose, shape, perspective, meaning and significance, not the other way around.
January 2019
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111 Reads
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18 Citations
Journalism
January 2018
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5 Citations
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
This article considers the ways in which the media apparatuses of Islamic State and the United States have adopted a Cold War frame for covering each other. In so doing, it demonstrates not only the degree to which U.S. news provides a template for news crafted elsewhere, but also how the past undergirds the present in unknowing and often unpredictable ways.
March 2017
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129 Reads
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24 Citations
Television & New Media
This article argues that media events can be fruitfully understood as an exercise in collective memory. It considers how coverage of the so-called war on terror draws from a deep memory of the Cold War. In drawing from that mnemonic scheme, terror’s current representation as an ideological war prosecuted patiently across time assures its seeming success even when its main media events underscore the war’s failure.
January 2017
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39 Citations
Journalism
This epilogue argues that time matters in journalism’s operation but is not sufficiently considered in its study. It focuses on the temporal expectations associated with the digital environment, highlighting problems with an overemphasis on the present in studies of news production, a lack of temporality in discussions of news engagement, and a failure to consider the temporal depletion associated with journalism’s future.
April 2016
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15 Citations
Communication Theory
For as long as the modern research university has been around, finding an ordering principle for knowledge acquisition has been one of its key goals. Though the difficulties in ordering knowledge go back to the times of Plato, the modern research university's establishment was expected to resolve them. And yet, centuries later, that ordering principle still eludes us. Instead, the patterns by which we collect and organize knowledge remain out of step with the circumstances that typify today's university environment. This article addresses the evolution and impact of that dissonance, using the field of communication as a prism through which to consider whether recognition of alternate modes of knowledge acquisition might be possible and, equally important, overdue.
January 2016
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22 Citations
International Journal of Communication
This article considers the coverage of and by Islamic State in conjunction with a mindset established during the Cold War. It illustrates the degree to which U.S. journalism shapes coverage of Islamic State via interpretive tenets from the Cold War era as well as Islamic State’s use of the same tenets in coverage of itself. The article raises questions about the deep memory structures that undergird U.S. news and about their [memory structures] travel to distant, unexpected, and often dissonant locations.
Citations (40)
... Journalism has a normative role in inserting important matters into the public agenda (Zelizer, 2022). The discourse in journalism is not only about the important new and present events but also about constructing discourses that establish historical continuities via tropes, presuppositions and arguments (Richardson & Wodak, 2009). ...
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January 2022
Memory Mind & Media
... The event orientation of news -whether, for example, protests, conferences or press releases -can also be institutionally out of sync with planetary and crisis temporalities (Bødker and Morris, 2022), whether slow-burn disasters or permanent emergencies (see also Zelizer, 2017Zelizer, , 2021. And the pragmatic division of journalist labour into 'news beats' and specialist correspondents (Robbins and Wheatley, 2021) can further reinforce the cognitive division of the world into separate 'issues'. ...
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June 2021
Media Culture & Society
... Journalism is not only a profession, but also an industry, a culture and a phenomenon. It encompasses a wide range of professionals, including reporters, photographers, field producers, internet providers and bloggers [43]. Journalists are distinguished from fact-checkers, as they verify facts prior publication while fact-checkers verify facts after they have been published [17]. ...
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Talking to journalists about AI
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January 2005
... There has been a considerable number of studies conducted on how the media shapes collective memory. (Birkner & Donk, 2018;Ammann & Grittmann, 2013;Edy, 1999;Erll, 2005;Kitch, 1999Kitch, , 2003Kitch, , 2006Meyers, 2002;Zelizer, 1995Zelizer, , 1997Zelizer, , 2008Zelizer, , 2010. According to Kirchmann (2000) & Filk (2000) and Birkner (2018) "Television, in particular, seems to have a high impact on what and how a society remembers" (Birkner & Donk, 2018, p. 5). ...
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January 2008
... ).• Key dimensions of Alternative news Media(Holt, Figenschou, and Frischlich 2019).• confirmation Bias in the Era of Mobile news consumption: the Social and Why Journalism Is About More than digital technology(Zelizer 2019). • "API-Based research" or How can digital Sociology and Journalism Studies Learn from the Facebook and cambridge Analytica data Breach (Venturini and rogers 2019) • the 5Ws and 1H of digital Journalism (Waisbord 2019). ...
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March 2019
... Despite the shared challenges faced by journalists today, such as declining public trust (Fink 2019), disinformation (Tumber and Zelizer 2019), and uncertain revenue streams (Bebawi and Evans 2019), the political, sociocultural, economic, and historical features underpinning media systems create divergent conditions for reporters working in different countries. American and Russian journalists are a case in point. ...
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January 2019
Journalism
... In ancestral times, personal experience and communication with kin and conspecifics (Dunbar 1998) provided a summary of existential threat; however, people now rely on the media for this information. In the lead up to the 2016 EU referendum and the US presidential election, there was considerable media coverage of the War in Syria and the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) (Satti 2015;Zhang and Hellmueller 2017), and in particular, their propaganda videos utilising the 'about to die' trope (Winkler et al. 2016;Zelizer 2018), which is considered particularly horrific in Western society (Tracy and Massey 2012). The potential for psychological impact from such exposure is demonstrated in various studies evidencing the relationship between news coverage of terrorist attacks and anxiety (Ben-Zur et al. 2012;Shoshani and Slone 2008;Slone 2000), distress (Silver et al. 2002), threat perception (Rubaltelli and Pittarello 2018), reduced trust (Giordano and Lindström 2016), support for military intervention (Soroka et al. 2016;Gadarian 2010), increased respect for authority (Tamborini et al. 2017) and outgroup prejudice (Das et al. 2009). ...
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January 2018
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
... As Barbie Zelizer (2018) has compellingly noted in connection to collective memory, "seeing violence in the present thus depends on which violence from the past we use to make it meaningful" (p. 136). ...
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March 2017
Television & New Media
... For example, Boczkowski (2010), Reich and Godler (2014), and Usher (2014) investigated time challenges and opportunities within journalistic production, but not within the news discourse itself. Zelizer (2018) argued that more journalism scholars should focus on temporality as an in-road to understanding the news, given the degree to which the idea of time distinguished journalism as a mode of public address. Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Neiger (2018) claimed that understanding the temporality of journalism in a changing media landscape would enable researchers to disentangle the complex relationships between the material and textual dimensions of time in news production. ...
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January 2017
Journalism
... Este texto pretende analizar al periodismo profesional chileno a través del prisma de su memoria. No se trata de cuestionar los usos que realizaron los y las periodistas del pasado y su contribución a la memoria mediática como se ha hecho en Chile ( Jara, 2016;Ros, 2012) o en otros lugares (Palacios, 2010;Volkmer, 2006;Zelizer, 2016). Tampoco se trata de sondear cómo la memoria social enmarca la producción de información (Tagle y Solà, 2017;Zandberg, 2010;Zelizer, 2008). ...
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January 2016
International Journal of Communication