News Ethics, News Analysis, Sociology of Journalism Research Papers (original) (raw)

This study aims in seeking further knowledge on the phenomenon pertaining to journalists' experiencing ethical dilemma while in the line of duty. On a separate study, it is said that novice journalists frequently face puzzling situations, especially when covering traumatic events; that they oftentimes come unprepared to resolve it on site (Amend, Kay, & Reilley, 2012). Thus, causing them to question their own responsibility and authority as journalists. This pushes the researcher to cater this as her/his study in order to fully understand the situation at hand and thus making a comprehensive analysis with the possibility of uncovering topics that weren't available on the other researches similar to the study at hand. This study will focus on today's new set of journalists and how would they counteract public deterrence while embodying Journalistic Ethics and Human Ethics in general.

Unlike cultural studies, media and communication studies is yet to make big
strides in critiquing global knowledge production that is skewed in favour
of the North and imbues Northern narratives with implicit superiority
(Tomaselli 1998, 2005). Willems (2014) argues systematically and clearly
for the need to go beyond the idea of making the Global South more rep-
resentative empirically and to centralize the theoretical perspectives of the
periphery which have long been introspective and created alternative tax-
onomies that challenge Eurocentrism. For example, feminist literatures—
from the Global North and South—have offered comprehensive critiques
of the Northern colonial male gaze but not looked at how media usage
compounds and augments de!nitions of gender (Mohanty 2013; Columpar
2002; Mahmood 2006; Moore 1998, 2013). I argue that gender studies
literature is very helpful in understanding how media is used in everyday
life as media usage is gendered and so are media themselves. Drawing on
ethnographic literature from Africa and Europe, gender studies and the
postcolonial canon, this chapter examines where agency is manifest, and
moves away from (Northern academic) normative, prescriptive dialogues of
what agency ‘should be’. Instead, I discuss what role old and new media play
in the ‘everyday’ (Sabry 2010; Asad et al 2009; Bayat 2010) lives of women
in Zanzibar. Applying a feminist post-colonial lens (Mahmood 2006; Spivak
1988; Hill-Collins 1999; Mohanty 2013), and carrying out an intersectional
reading (Crenshaw 1991) of empirical work conducted in Zanzibar, I exam-
ine the extent to which ‘new’ media shift the balance of power to female
consumers of media in formations and iterations of their own agency. New
media change the nature of agency for ‘ordinary’ women and allow them to
adopt new ways of communicating with each other, and negotiating exte-
rior spaces. Women as consumers, users and audiences of new media have
blurred and now adopt multiple roles, thereby changing and adapting new
media to !t their private worlds and renegotiating public spaces.

- by Dr. Thembi Mutch
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- Gender Studies, Media Studies, Development Studies, Global Media Studies

Previous studies have noted the dominance of official sources within the news process and their unique ability to shape media narratives. This research addresses the role and implications of news sources in contributing to the overwhelmingly positive portrayal of the anti-Mubarak opposition protesters within British and American newspaper coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Furthermore, this paper will assess how the position of global political elites towards the protests in Egypt possibly opened up the editorial space within the news coverage of the revolution for the anti-Mubarak opposition movement to emerge as the dominant voice within the reporting.

- by Patrick Fitzgerald
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- Sociology, Media Sociology, Political Sociology, International Relations