Project description
How journalism is critiqued and how journalists experience media critique
Social media like Facebook and Twitter provide different social actors (politicians, professionals, academics, political activists and others) a new forum to discuss and criticise the media. Criticising journalism online has become a daily feature of public discourse today. The EU-funded CritJourn project will investigate how journalism is critiqued and how journalists negotiate and experience media critique by different online publics. It will shed light on our understanding of the relationship between journalism and online culture. Empirically, the project will interview journalists in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom about their experiences. It will also conduct an interpretivist analysis of how journalists and media institutions in the United Kingdom are critiqued on Twitter. The project’s overarching research aim is to develop new theoretical concepts for understanding the political and ideological dynamics of the relationship between journalism and media critique.
Objective
CritJourn will examine how journalism is critiqued online and how journalists experience these critiques. Public critiques of journalism seem to have become more visible than they have ever been in the past. In particular, critiques of the legitimacy of mainstream media representations - from different ideological perspectives - have become an everyday feature of public discourse about journalism on digital platforms like Twitter. Drawing on my established international profile as a critical communication, media and journalism researcher, the overarching aim of this project will be to develop new concepts for understanding how journalism is critiqued, and how journalists negotiate and experience media critique, by different online publics. This research is timely and important because it will illuminate our understanding of the relationship between journalism and online culture in a political moment where the bonds that have historically sustained the relationship between journalism and the public have been weakened. The overarching aim will be supported by 4 specific objectives, 2 conceptual and 2 empirical. The conceptual supplements will put communication, media and journalism research into conversation with, first, interdisciplinary debates about the nature of critique and, second, radical democratic theories about the nature of ideological conflict. The first empirical element will undertake a (quantitative and qualitative) critical discourse analysis of how UK journalists and media institutions are critiqued on Twitter. The second will interview journalists in Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands and UK about their experiences of media critique. The fellowship incorporates a training programme appropriate to my career profile. It will significantly advance my research programme, facilitate and extend my reintegration within EU research networks and boost my chances of getting a senior academic position in Europe on completion.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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