Negotiating interpretive power : interpretive practices in journalist-scientist interactions

This study critically examines the notion of interpretation and interpretive practices within journalist-scientist interactions in the news production process. The linguistic ethnographic work in this paper offers rare insights into an intense and lengthy collaboration between a newspaper, university, and government agency as they set up a citizen science project on air quality in Belgium. Our analysis focuses on how journalists and scientists interpret scientific results and how they actively reflect on that interpretation. Beeman and Peterson's (2001) notion of interpretive practice is adopted as an analytical framework and operationalized by looking into how routine procedures, cultural categories, and social positions from the fields of journalism and science are adapted, negotiated or reflected on in the dataset. The findings show that the scientists go beyond providing data and expertise and are heavily engaged in the interpretive work within the news production process. The close-knit interaction between the scientists and journalists brings about a struggle over whose interpretation should be a part of the final news product and limits the interpretive power of the journalist

Reflexivity and negotiation in collaborative journalism on air quality

This paper sheds new light on collaborative journalism and investigates how this innovative newsroom practice affects the news production process and product. More particularly, we focus on a collaborative project on air pollution involving a newspaper, university, and environmental government agency and examine how journalists and professionals within the fields of science and policy-making interact within this collaboration. We draw on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork behind the scenes of the collaborative project as well as a comparative multimodal discourse analysis of news items produced within the collaboration and similar news items produced a year earlier outside the collaboration. In our study, we analyse how the act of collaborating blurs boundaries between the traditional professional identities for the three categories of actors involved and urges them to reflect on their own and each other's discursive practices. Our study demonstrates the added value of a linguistically sensitive analysis of both the discursive processes behind the scenes of the news production process as well as the news product itself, in revealing how innovative newsroom practices like collaboration between journalists and expert sources shape the (language of) news

'If it wasn’t absolutely true, it couldn’t be published' : on boundaries in collaborative journalism

Engaging audiences and collaborating with elite members of the public (e.g. scientists) have become increasingly important in newsrooms across the globe (Harbers 2016). In this chapter, we zoom in on collaborative journalism (in which journalists work together with non-journalists) with a postfoundational lens. We present a case in which a newspaper, university and environmental government agency set up a citizen science project on air quality in a Western European country. This chapter offers a thematic analysis of three retrospective interviews with key players, which were conducted at the end of seven months of ethnographic fieldwork behind the scenes of this citizen science project. We demonstrate how collaboration plays out in (re)defining the boundaries of the cultural spaces of media, science and politics as they are constructed by our informants

Uitbouw van een traject herstel- en ervarignsdeskundigheid in GGZ en onderwijs

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Online headline testing at a Belgian Broadsheet:A postfoundational perspective

In this chapter, we investigate the impact of recent audience-monitoring tools on the (online) newspaper sub-editors’ task of crafting headlines. We zoom in on how metrics have become part of the newsmaking process and are now intrinsic to a larger foundation of more collaborative, participatory and engaging practices. Drawing on digital data and fieldwork, we analyse the back and forth between the sub-editors’ journalistic gut feeling, their awareness of ‘selling’ their brand ‘in the right way’, and the need to gain clicks. Relying on a linguistic ethnographic perspective (NT&T 2011), we address how sub-editors reflect on their changing professional routines. By investigating how the sub-editors’ aim to position themselves in tandem with their algorithmic tools is foundational to news media today, we shed new light on how the use of audience engagement metrics intertwines with long-standing journalistic practices and contribute to global debates on the politics of technology and online participation

Beperkende maatregelen bij zelfverwondend gedrag: nodig of overbodig?

Hoewel over ‘vrijheidsbeperking in de psychiatrische zorgverlening’ een enorme hoeveelheid aan onderzoeksliteratuur beschikbaar is, is er relatief weinig literatuur die rapporteert over de toepassing van beperkende maatregelen bij zelfverwonding en de invloed ervan op de verpleegkundige patiëntrelatie. Vanuit benchmarkonderzoek weten we dat beperkende maatregelen nog steeds frequent toegepast worden bij zelfverwonding in Vlaanderen. In het perspectief van deze vaststellingen staan we in deze mededeling stil bij volgende vraag: hoe ervaren residentieel opgenomen patiënten met een institutionele automutilatieproblematiek de ingestelde maatregelen die tot doel hebben zelfverwonding in te perken? Deze onderzoeksvraag zal beantwoord worden vanuit gegevens die verzameld werden via multicentrisch kwalitatief onderzoek, gebaseerd op principes van grounded theory.status: publishe

Beperkende maatregelen bij zelfverwondend gedrag: nodig of overbodig

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