TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction: Journalism coming into being
T2 - The timbers and planks of a changing institution
AU - Eldridge II, Scott
N1 - Scott A. Eldridge II (PhD, University of Sheffield) is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. He researches digital journalism and how non-traditional actors challenge the boundaries of the journalistic field. He is the author of Online Journalism from the Periphery (2018) and co-author with Miguel F. Santos Silva of The Ethics of Photojournalism in the Digital Age (2020), and is co-editor with Martin Conboy of Global Tabloid: Culture and Technology (2021) and with Bob Franklin, of the Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2017) and Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (2019). From 2018–2021 he was Associate Editor of Digital Journalism.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - What are we referring to when we say ‘journalism’? In this introductory chapter, I will explore various threads that allow us to think about journalism as something that is ontogenetic, or constantly coming into itself, constantly becoming. Using the classic thought experiment of ‘the ship of Theseus’, this chapter explores institutional approaches to understanding journalism. It juxtaposes discussions of journalism as something stable, with recognition of the many changes the field has undergone. It offers a conceptual roadmap interweaving institutional discussions with those from field theory to present an argument for adjoining legacy and novelty when thinking about journalism nowadays. In doing so, it highlights the aims of this book, which is to consider how new institutions that are now endemic to journalism can be thought of as part of journalism’s constant, ongoing, process of becoming.
AB - What are we referring to when we say ‘journalism’? In this introductory chapter, I will explore various threads that allow us to think about journalism as something that is ontogenetic, or constantly coming into itself, constantly becoming. Using the classic thought experiment of ‘the ship of Theseus’, this chapter explores institutional approaches to understanding journalism. It juxtaposes discussions of journalism as something stable, with recognition of the many changes the field has undergone. It offers a conceptual roadmap interweaving institutional discussions with those from field theory to present an argument for adjoining legacy and novelty when thinking about journalism nowadays. In doing so, it highlights the aims of this book, which is to consider how new institutions that are now endemic to journalism can be thought of as part of journalism’s constant, ongoing, process of becoming.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367690908
SN - 9780367690854
SP - 1
EP - 14
BT - The Institutions Changing Journalism
A2 - Ferrucci, Patrick
A2 - Eldridge II, Scott A
PB - Routledge
CY - London, New York
ER -