Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking : A Postfoundational Perspective.

Intro -- Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Painting the postfoundational picture: Participation, engagement and collaboration as a new foundation for newsmaking -- Introducing the book's topic -- The focus: Newsmaking -- The key issues: Participation, collaboration, and engagement -- The theoretical lens: A postfoundational approach -- The methodology: Fieldwork -- The contributions -- References -- Chapter 2. Online headline testing at a Belgian broadsheet: A postfoundational perspective on how news professionals 'sell' content -- Introduction -- Research focus 1: Audience-monitoring tools and metrics -- Research focus 2: Headlines and (online) sub-editors -- Methodology and data -- Findings -- Online sub-editing and headline testing -- Cases -- Case 1: For clickbait - "More of a trigger" -- Case 2: For Clickbait - "Missing the Boat" -- Case 3: Against Clickbait - Staying True to the Brand -- Case 4: Reframing the News Story -- Newsworkers reflecting on the use of headline testing -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. "It is, perhaps more than ever before, a matter of participation": Ontological tension and boundary work in a free trade blog -- Introduction -- Research design -- The politics of free trade, the European centre for international political economy and their blog -- Evidence of conflicting ontologies in a free trade blog -- Communication, campaigning, and language -- Post-truth -- Post-truth strategies -- Legacy to new media -- Implications for the public debate on free trade -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. "If it wasn't absolutely true, it couldn't be published": On boundaries in collaborative journalism -- Introduction -- Media-science-politics relationship -- Mediated issue development -- Credibility contest.

The case -- Methodology -- Profiles of the interviewees -- Findings -- The journalist -- The professor -- The department head of the environmental government agency -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. Transcription glossary -- Chapter 6. Journalism now: Central and marginal aspects of news craft -- Introduction -- Context, social consensus and communicative change -- New news and tomorrow's news today -- Situating the San Quentin News in the US mediascape -- Online variants -- Impacts of media change and social awareness -- Writing in context -- A discursive and interactional balancing act -- Social value and narrative change -- Summary and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7. Journalists' use of social media: A paradigmatic shift towards restoring audience trust through wide-ranging engagement -- Introduction -- Social media: Scalable sociality of media -- Literature review: A patchy picture of journalists' social media use -- Data and methods: Theoretical sampling of Finnish journalists' practices -- Results: Towards a paradigmatic shift in newswriting -- Discussion: Restoring trust through transparency of practices -- Conclusion: Social media is (becoming) an integral part of today's journalism -- References -- Index.

This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they have now become sedimented as the common-sense baseline for everyday newsmaking routines.

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