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Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise - A Processual Account
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Abstract In this article, we argue for making the frequently invoked notion of "crises of journalism" itself the proper subject of sociological analysis. Based on a case study of a public controversy over an adversarial TV interview with a well-known politician on Austria's public service broadcaster ORF, we... view more
In this article, we argue for making the frequently invoked notion of "crises of journalism" itself the proper subject of sociological analysis. Based on a case study of a public controversy over an adversarial TV interview with a well-known politician on Austria's public service broadcaster ORF, we provide an analysis of the practical use of crisis claims in metajournalistic discourse. Drawing on ethnomethodology, interactionism, and situational analysis and suggesting the discursive trajectory as an analytic tool, we show that crisis accounts serve as an instrument of politicizing journalistic expertise, i.e., as a discursive strategy of mobilizing heterogeneous actors to impose interpretations of how journalism ought to be.... view less
Keywords
journalism; crisis; political communication; broadcasting; public institution; ORF; politics; Austria; situation analysis
Classification
Communicator Research, Journalism
Free Keywords
Krisenkonstruktionen; journalistische Expertise; diskursive Trajektorie
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 541-569
Journal
Symbolic Interaction, 45 (2022) 4
ISSN
1533-8665
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
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