Format:
xviii, 232 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
22 cm
ISBN:
3030214273
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9783030214272
Content:
And introduction to crisis reporting: setting out -- Defining a crisis: boarding -- The emotional experience of crisis reporters: the journey -- Articulating journalists' emotional experiences of crisis: touching down -- Emotions, technology, and crisis reconsidered: ending -- Creative nonfiction and the research method.
Content:
"This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Examining how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it illustrates how media professionals learn to think and act within crisis situations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists reporting on wars, terror attacks and natural disasters, the book rethinks traditional concepts in journalistic thought. Finally, it reflects on the specific, contemporary vulnerabilities of industry professionals, including the impact of new technologies, specific forms of precarity, and a particular strain of cynicism central to the industry. Combining comprehensive, empirical research with the fictional narrative of a journalist protagonist, Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology establishes an innovative approach to academic storytelling"--Back cover
Note:
"What follows is a research monograph based on in-depth interviews with real people - 47 European 'crisis reporters' - and ethnographica fieldwork conducted at real places - in three different newsrooms at Czech media organizations - between June 2015 and January 2019. It takes a form of a novel about James, a fictional journalist, taking off for an unpredictable business trip"--Page vii
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Journalismus
;
Berichterstattung
;
Krise
;
Gefühl
