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Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era
Matt Carlson
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Description for Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: CBWJ; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a relationship arising in the connections between those laying claim to being an authority and those who assent to it. Matt Carlson examines the practices journalists use to legitimate their work: professional orientation, development of specific news forms, ... Read more
When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a relationship arising in the connections between those laying claim to being an authority and those who assent to it. Matt Carlson examines the practices journalists use to legitimate their work: professional orientation, development of specific news forms, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174459
SKU
V9780231174459
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About Matt Carlson
Matt Carlson is associate professor of communication at Saint Louis University. He is author of On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism (2011) and coeditor of Boundaries of Journalism: Professionalism, Practices and Participation (2015) and Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives (2010).
Reviews for Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era
The most comprehensive statement about journalistic authority I have ever read-bar none. Journalistic Authority fills a gaping hole in the scholarship and will be cited as an important and significant work in the field going forward.
Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Matt Carlson unpacks the historical, philosophical, and embodied linkages between professionalism and authority, and, in what amounts to ... Read more
Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Matt Carlson unpacks the historical, philosophical, and embodied linkages between professionalism and authority, and, in what amounts to ... Read more