عنوان

A quiet revolution :

شماره

TLets656273

عنوان اصلي

A quiet revolution :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Wright, Katherine

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

the moral economies shaping journalists' use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Goldsmiths College (University of London)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Goldsmiths College (University of London)

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

Mainstream news coverage of Africa relies increasingly on material provided by NGOs, who stand to gain in political influence as a result of becoming ever-more media savvy in a digital age. But at a time of widespread cost-cutting in mainstream journalism, is it appropriate for NGOs to 'make news' by providing audio, photographs and video to increasingly time and resource-poor journalists or does this diminish what news should be? Building a body of empirical evidence about why and how journalists use such multimedia and the consequences of this for journalism, NGO-work and those represented, is the central focus of this thesis. Unlike previous research on news coverage of Africa and journalists' use of NGO-provided multimedia that tends to focus on the coverage of 'disasters' or 'humanitarian emergencies', this study analyses journalists' use of NGO-provided multimedia about Africa during a very different news-making period - what journalists call a 'quiet news week'. The research involved sixty semi-structured interviews with those whose decisions shaped the production of six media items, which were also subject to qualitative content analysis. These items were about a range of topics and African countries: all of which were published or broadcast in news readily available to British audiences. But why and how journalists used NGO-provided multimedia was shaped most powerfully by the 'moral economies' (Sayer 2007) structuring each news outlet. These moral economies were found to have brought about a 'quiet revolution': leading to the emergence of a number of heterogeneous, normatively-laden coalitions between NGOs and news outlets, often hidden from the view of audiences. Consequently, journalists' use of NGO-provided multimedia was found to have limited progressive potential: for it inhibited collective reasoning by preventing critical scrutiny, as well as systematically excluding the political value of 'voice' in ways which further marginalised the disadvantaged and powerless (Sen 2010).

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Wright, Katherine

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Goldsmiths College (University of London)

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y