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Journalistic Reorientations: The Online Challenge to Journalistic Ontology

Tildelt: kr 7,9 mill.

Journalistikken er under press. Samtidig er dens samfunnsrolle viktigere enn noen gang. Prosjektet ?Journalistic reorientations? har utforsket vilkår for en samfunnsorientert og demokratisk relevant journalistikk. Det er bl.a. gjennomført studier av såkalte redaksjonelle samfunnsregnskap, som er ett virkemiddel for å engasjere publikum I debatter om journalistisk kvalitet. Slike ansvarssystemer kan spille en viktig rolle I en reforhandling av journalistikkens samfunnskontrakt. Prosjektets forskere har drevet utstrakt formidlingsaktivitet (to av prosjektets forskere har f.eks. blitt intervjuet om prosjektet 12 ganger det siste året). Alle kan kalle seg journalister. Stadig flere gjør det også. Det snakkes i dag mye om deltakende journalistikk, om brukergenerert innhold og om borgerjournalistikk. Det foreliggende prosjektet har levert forskning om disse fenomener, og fo reløpig konkludert med at forandringene er mindre enn tidligere antatt. Meningsmulighetene har økt, mens genuin borgerjournalistikk ennå er mangelvare.

The primary aim of this research project is to investigate how journalism changes in its encounter with the Internet. The main research question is how professional and technological challenges from online communication forms impact on: 1) the normative a nd democratic foundations of journalism; 2) journalism's political economy; 3) journalism's professional practices; and 4) journalism's audiences. These four approaches address the question of journalism's ontology and practice from theoretical, structura l, disciplinary, social-cultural and communicative vantage points. Journalism is currently undergoing reorientations towards a new media situation. The new media ecology and the long tail economy entail new patterns of audience use of traditional journali stic formats. A marked reduction in newspaper readership and television viewing upset mainstream media practices to a new level of ambiguity concerning the future function of journalism. Such a shift in media consumption forces reorientations within the j ournalistic profession. This project will analyse empirically, conceptually and comparatively the changes taking place within journalism as the profession adapts to the new media environment. Analyses focus on the Norwegian situation - comparing findings with Nordic and Anglo-American media markets through collaboration with a team of international researchers. The project will investigate broadly journalism's opportunities and challenges in the digital environment, ultimately enquiring how this impacts t he role of journalism in democracy. Analyses of this process will result in theory development, data aggregation, empirical analyses, comparative grounding, research consolidation, and the recruitment of young scholars. Primary publications will amount to dissertations by three recruited candidate projects, a monograph by project manager Martin Eide, and two anthologies by subsequent project members.

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