European Communication REsearch and Education Association (ECREA) organizes the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) “Centres and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation” between October 31 and 3 November in Lugano (Switzerland).
On Friday, October 2, I will present the poster entitled “Multilevel Organic Analysis of the Journalistic Culture of Ecuador”:
I’m very happy to announce that the article “Re-examining age: Journalism’s reliance on the young” in Journalism Journal has been published online. This article, result of the work of Beate Josephi and myself in the WJS project led by Thomas Hanitzsch, analyses the journalistic and general workforce in age segments in 14 countries.
Link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884918800077
I announce the publication of our new article “Journalists in newsrooms: Professional roles, influences, and changes to journalism” in BJR.
Link: https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/article/view/1146/pdf
I am very proud to announce the publication of the special issue of Brazilian Journalism Rerearch (BJR) edited by Sonia Virgínia Moreira and me. In this issue, relevant researchers participate as Rosa Berganza, Silvio Waisbord, Jairo Lugo, Adriana Amado, among others.
link: https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/issue/view/52/showToc
Estimados compañeros y amigos,
me es grato comunicarles que pueden descargar de forma GRATUITA la versión pdf de mis cuatro libros publicados en EAE (pueden adquirir la versión impresa a través de la página web de la editorial):
Journalism in Latin America: Journalistic Culture of Ecuador
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El Marketing como desafío de futuro. Perspectivas globales y regionales desde Iberoamérica y Ecuador
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Ideology and professional culture of journalists in Cuba
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Análisis Orgánico Multinivel de la Cultura Periodística de Ecuador. Perfil, situación y percepción profesional de los periodistas
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El VI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE LA AE-IC “Comunicación y Conocimiento” se celebro desde el 26 al 29 de Junio de 2018 en la Universidad de Salamanca, España. Con motivo del VIII Centenario de la Universidad de Salamanca, la AE-IC abrió un espacio de diálogo sobre la Comunicación y el Conocimiento para los académicos y especialistas españoles y latinoamericanos.
El viernes 29 de junio en la sesión “Comunicación y cultura comunitarias y de proximidad” presidida por Luis A. Albornoz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) presentamos María Cruz Tornay y un servidor lacomunicación “Periodismo-otro latinoamericano” junto a “La pasión por la creatividad: la próxima frontera para la innovación y la precariedad a través de la Cultura” de William Dias Braga; “Características del modelo de televisión pública de proximidad: el caso de Catalunya” de Aida Martori Muntsant; “La externalización de la producción de informativos en la Televisión del Principado de Asturias: evolución, balance y retos” de A zahara Cañedo Ramos y “El mapa de la radiodifusión privada comercial en Andalucía. Un modelo fallido de políticas públicas de comunicación plural y vertebradora” de Francisco Guerrero Cuadrado.
En esta misma estancia participé en el curso sobre analítica predictiva de encuestas a través de Python, una actividad impartida por Carlos Arcila Calderón del 2 al 4 de julio en #Salamanca.
I’m very happy to begin my research stay at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italia).
During June and July 2018 I will work with Sergio Splendore in our project “Journalism in Mediterranean and Latin American countries: So far so close”:
This study uses the impressive data collected by the Worlds of Journalism Study Network, comparing journalist’s role perceptions in France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain – for the Mediterranean countries – and Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Mexico – for Latin America – to better understand the possible similarities and differences between the two regions. The samples used represented the population of journalists in each country. To identify journalistic populations, the consortium considered journalists all professional actors occupied full time or almost full time with the collection, description, and publication of relevant information in journalistic media.
The work aim is twofold: firstly, descriptively studying which kind of role perceptions those different journalist cultures seem to embrace. For this study, we follow the most recent and established literature on the field as Hanitzsch (2011), Hanusch & Hanitzsch (2017), Berganza et al. (2017), Oller et al. (2017), among others. Hanitzsch and Vos (2017) summarize the wealth of studies on journalistic roles in four different perspectives: regard to normative ideas (what journalists should do), cognitive orientations (what they want to do), professional practice (what journalists really do), and narrated performance (what they say they do). We focus on cognitive orientations, about what journalists want to do (or at least, what they say they want to do), and even more precisely, what they say to do via a pre-filled questionnaire. For the nature of the data, we cannot discuss any other relation but that one. Therefore, this work analyses four different roles perceptions: the “monitorial”, the “interventionist”, the “collaborative” and the “populist” role. The monitorial role refers to the journalists’ importance of the role of providing political information, monitoring politics and business, and motivate people to participate in politics. The interventionist role also assigns an active role to the journalist, as they are found to advocate for social change, influence public opinion and set the political agenda, and support national development. In the collaborative role, journalists find it of importance to be close to politicians, as they support government policy and generally convey a positive image of political leaders. The last role takes business factors into consideration, as it is important for the populist role to provide news that attract the largest audience, as well as provide entertainment and relaxation and advice, orientation, and direction for daily life.
For a correct understanding of the professional roles of journalists, secondly, we analyse the combination of role perceptions and countries in terms of journalistic autonomy. Journalists’ autonomy is one of the most important and frequent issue within journalism studies. As John Merrill (1974) has argued autonomy in journalism is also linked to the idea of authentic journalism. Nevertheless, a hallmark of professionalism around the world, autonomy’s core insistence is that of self-rule without interference; it works on the collective level to create a normative bulwark against interference from external influences (Carlson, 2017). The study therefore investigates which variables appear to be influent on the journalists’ perception of autonomy. Following Hughes et al. (2016), we argue that editorial autonomy is situational, contextually dependent, and historically contingent, but that a comparative effort as the one we are proposing could underline some of those contingencies. The overall results suggest that the autonomy perceived by journalists appear to be linked both to macro level (Freedom of the Press Index, Corruption – CPI indexes) and micro leve (e.g.: exactly which perceptions journalists keep of their profession).
