Power Of Journalism Research Articles

Misinformation, Disinformation and Reckoning in Journalism

In this special issue, we examine the practice of journalism globally from a lens through which the power of journalism can be maintained and secured for the benefit of society, pushing back against misinformation and disinformation.

Journalism’s Power of Discourse: Be it Through A Periscope or Kaleidoscope

The present research paper delves into the power of journalism’s discourse through a comparative analysis of literary and non-literary journalism. Drawing on the metaphorical imagery of periscopes and kaleidoscopes, the study aims to explore how journalism’s discourse shapes readers’ perceptions and interpretations of events, blurring the line between reality and fiction. The paper adopts a qualitative research approach with a phenomenological design. Through in-depth analysis and interpretation, the study examines the power of fictional and non-fictional journalism, drawing upon the concept of metaphor to describe how the discourse of journalism operates. The research questions are explored within the frameworks of Post-Truth, Linguistic Relativism, and Transcendentalism to gain a comprehensive understanding of the power inherent in these two genres of journalism. The empirical material for this research comprises a wide range of literary and non-literary journalistic texts, including articles, news reports, and narrative journalism pieces. Additionally, scholarly works discussing the impact of journalism’s discourse on readers’ perceptions are included to provide a holistic view of the subject. The study reveals that journalism’s discourse, whether in literary or non-literary form, holds a double-edged power over readers’ minds. Utilizing the metaphorical comparison of periscopes and kaleidoscopes, the research highlights the relative and manipulative nature of journalistic language. Moreover, the power of literary journalism, bolstered by imaginative and creative writing techniques, exerts a profound influence on shaping readers’ worldviews. The research emphasizes the significance of understanding journalism’s power in shaping public opinion and perception. While acknowledging the complexity and nuance of this phenomenon, the study underscores the need for continued research to gain further insight into the workings of journalism’s discourse in a rapidly evolving media landscape.

From the Shipping News to Snapchat: Problems of Space, Place, and Power in Journalism

From the Shipping News to Snapchat: Problems of Space, Place, and Power in Journalism

Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?

This thematic issue sets out to explore the power relationships between journalism and social media. The articles here examine these relationships as intersections between journalistic actors and their audiences, and between news media, their content, and the functions of social media platforms. As the articles in this issue show, the emergence of social media and their adoption by news media and other social actors have brought about a series of changes which have had an impact on how news is produced, how information is shared, how audiences consume news, and how publics are formed. In this introduction, we highlight the work in this issue in order to reflect on the emergence of social media as one which has been accompanied by shifts in power in journalism and its ancillary fields, shifts which have in turn surfaced new questions for scholars to confront.

Education and improvement of Kurdish written language: some newspapers and magazines of the beginning of 20th century as examples

The issues of Kurdish Language and Kurdish Language Identity has been highly evident through the beginnings of twentieth century. The significant changes that took place in political and cultural aspects in Kurdistan has gave the birth of numerous journals and magazines which clearly expressed the general circumstances of the twentieth century. This research under the title "Issue of Literacy and Kurdish Written Language in Certain Journals and Magazines in the Early Twentieth Century" aims to provide a wide analysis on the related issues expressed through the common journals and magazines. The research covers five journals and magazines issued between1920-1932 and shades light on a number of efforts done by the Fourth Power (Power of Journalism) to highlight the language and Kurdish language study issues as a national privileges after the effects caused by the division of Kurdistan, Iraqi Government establishment and the British policy in the region. The common challenges can be literacy encouragement, spelling, language purification and requests to solve schools' problems, and these challenges will be the discussing topics in the research. There are many external and internal factors that caused the given challenges, that's why the writers and journalists boldly and eagerly discussed the challenges and were part of the solutions by giving suggestions and pointing the weaknesses through various techniques and evidences.

The Dynamics of Professional Identity

The aim of this article is to analyse how journalists' professional identity is related to their attitude towards PR. The focus is how—and to what extent—journalistic ideology, organizational belonging and the individual's social position influence journalists' perception that other journalists working with PR lower the trustworthiness of journalism. The analyses rest on data from the Swedish Journalist Survey 2011, which is a national representative survey of Swedish journalists. The results show that journalists in general embrace a hostile attitude towards journalists who start working as PR practitioners. However, those who have worked as a journalist for fewer years or have journalistic ideals promoting the amusement function of journalism, or have worked as a freelance, or been employed in an organization producing newsletters, as well as female journalists, weaken this posture. The article concludes with a discussion on how the results could be understood in relation to recent changes in journalism's power and prerequisites, and how a professional identity might function as a form of resistance.

Worker Correspondents: Between Journalism and Literature

AAAiile journalism is often seen as the antithesis of literature, the two enjoyed close and productive relationship in the Soviet Union in the decade following the Revolution.1 The influence of the Bolshevik press was key to Red victory in the Civil War, and much of Bolshevik journalism's power stemmed from its application of literary methods to factual genres and harnessing of literary talents such as Vladimir Mayakovsky.2 Early Soviet journalism's innovative emphasis upon the presentation of factual material for political persuasion rather than information was the inspiration for remarkable 1920s cultural forms such as Dziga Vertov's revolutionary newsreel and the ubiquitous newspaper feuilleton.3 Yet this groundbreaking approach to propaganda was not the most unusual feature of 1920s Soviet newspapers. This honor belongs to journalists' active solicitation of readers' letters leading to a volume of mail probably unprecedented in world history.4 By 1922 such letter-writing had been christened the movement of worker correspondents (rabochii korrespondent, or rabkor). For writers Mikhail Bulgakov and Mikhail Zoshchenko the torrent of correspondence furnished source material for stories of disputes in restaurants,

Det journalistiske mistaket

The journalistic fallacyAn expansion of ”media logic” and media strategies in private and public sectors of society is the point of departure for this paper. The power of journalism is a force drawn upon by a wide range of social agents. The question is whether what appears as a victory of journalistic formats and frames of understanding simultaneously is a journalistic defeat. The paper identifies and discusses current aspects of journalistic practice and ideology which might constitute a journalistic fallacy. Among these aspects is the role of the journalist as an impressario of public issues and possible populistic interpretations of this role. Another related aspect is a restricted and vulgar understanding of power involved in a current conception of journalism as ideology. The expansionof a certain service ideology within the mass media and in other domains of public life is also discussed. The journalistic fallacy can be conducted as well by other social agents as by journalists. Implications of this sour victory of journalism is discussed with reference to the Norwegian social philosopher Hans Skjervheim’s writings, especially on the problems of instrumentalism in social life.