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The Contestation over Objectivity between Professional and Citizen Journalists: Discourse, Practice and Content of the Coverage of Healthcare Reform and Gun Control Debate.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Contestation over Objectivity between Professional and Citizen Journalists: Discourse, Practice and Content of the Coverage of Healthcare Reform and Gun Control Debate./
Author:	Liu, Yang.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	420 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-11.
Subject:	Journalism. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27964293
ISBN:	9798645425944

The Contestation over Objectivity between Professional and Citizen Journalists: Discourse, Practice and Content of the Coverage of Healthcare Reform and Gun Control Debate.
Liu, Yang.

The Contestation over Objectivity between Professional and Citizen Journalists: Discourse, Practice and Content of the Coverage of Healthcare Reform and Gun Control Debate. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 420 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines the contestation over objectivity between professional and citizen journalists, focusing on how the journalists were re-articulating objectivity to establish their epistemic authority. Taking the perspective of the journalistic field theory (Bourdieu, 1984; Benson, 2013), it understands the contestation as a power struggle between these journalistic actors who occupy different locations in the field and seek to reinforce their respective locations. Using the comparative case study approach to examine the phenomenon, my empirical investigation looks into the contestation by comparing the journalistic discourse, practices and contents by journalists at four different media outlets (the Washington Post newspaper and blog, the Huffington Post, Daily Kos and RedState) in the context of their coverage on two policy issues: healthcare reform and gun control debate.It reveals that the journalists were re-articulating objectivity in different ways to support their competing epistemic authority claims. Objectivity could be professional journalists' pursuit of shared factual knowledge for people with diverse opinions, relying on professional expertise and with undergirding democratic obligation. It could also be a citizen journalistic pursuit grounded in the political activism of advocating the liberal/conservative perspective of social reality that professional news media failed to represent. It could further be a joint pursuit by bloggers and professional journalists to attain objectivity in reasoned engagement of citizens as civic observers with a voice. The different approaches were accomplished in highly fluid practices that led to the creation of contrasting depictions of factual reality on the two policy issues. The accomplishment of objectivity was also related to the field mechanism involving locations, resources and external influences. The findings contribute to the understanding of journalistic objectivity as a living system that maintains its relevance to journalism through constant re-articulations and remains rooted in factuality and public interest no matter how it is re-articulated. The contestation over objectivity is an important component of the meta-journalistic discourse (Carlson, 2016), through which the boundary of journalism and the basis of legitimacy of journalistic work gets constructed and re-constructed, thereby being able to remain viable in face of changes and challenges.

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