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Network newswork: social appropriation of social media as routine journalistic practice
Amira Firdaus1.
Based on in-depth interviews with journalists at conventional news organizations,
this paper examines how journalists socially appropriate user-driven networked
informational sources into their newswork routines, a practice I term “network
newswork”. Drawing upon current notions of networked journalism, I problematize
the distinction between “networked” and “network” forms of newswork to explore
interlacings between this emergent practice and established news production
practices. A comparative analysis of Kuala Lumpur-based journalists from global
channel Al Jazeera English (AJE), Malaysia’s national news channel, Bernama TV,
regional Channel News Asia, and three international news agencies, reveal that
“network newswork” practices are determined by organizational factors and
structured by long-established conventional journalistic norms and routines.
An organization’s news orientation, as well as its material and human resources
determine how - and if – journalists incorporate “network newswork” into their
work routines. Notwithstanding these qualifications, anecdotal evidence as well
as journalism’s historical amenability for transformation suggests that the use
of user-driven networked media in multiple phases of news production is fast
becoming a habitual institutionalized facet of newswork, no more extraordinary
than practices like contacting sources via phone or interviewing elite sources. We
are thus approaching a time when “network newswork” practices are crystalizing
into a regularized journalistic form we can call “networked newswork”.
Affiliation:
- University of Malaya, Malaysia
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