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RISC Monitor audience rating and its implications for journalistic practice

Conceptualizations of good news are increasingly driven by detailed audience research. This article examines the application of Research Institute on Social Change (RISC) Monitor in the context of Finnish press journalistic practice and considers the views on journalism and the audience RISC Monitor reinforces. This international and widely used market research tool monitors social change by analysing people's life-styles, attitudes and values. Here the focus is on the implications the use of RISC Monitor has for the idea(l)s of journalism as the transmission of information and as a resource for public participation and active citizenship. The study is based on qualitative interviews with …

From Consuming Printed News to Making Online Journalism?

Pioneers as Peers : How Entrepreneurial Journalists Imagine the Futures of Journalism

The article investigates the futures of journalism that pioneering entrepreneurial journalists anticipate. This comprises the different imaginaries that journalists employ to make sense of journalism’s present potentials, anticipate its possible futures, and inform their decision-making. By analysing semi-structured interviews with Finnish entrepreneurial journalists, the article identifies a peer-to-peer imaginary on which the interviewees draw and construct to anticipate the potential futures of journalism. In this peer-to-peer imaginary, journalism is produced in journalists’ and audiences’ peer networks of affinity and shared interests. The imaginary promises elevated audience engagemen…

Suhteissa mediaan

Miten vihaa puretaan internetin chat-huoneissa? Kuka fanittaa koulumurhaajaa? Miten ihmisiä voitaisiin tukea mediasuhteissaan? Entä miten media voi toimia yhteiskunnallisen osallistumisen resurssina? Sirkku Kotilaisen toimittama artikkelikokoelma Suhteissa mediaan vastaa yllä oleviin kysymyksiin ja pyrkii herättämään uusia kysymyksiä. Artikkeleissa tehdään kurkistuksia mediasuhteisiin, erityisesti käyttäjien ja kuluttajien vuorovaikutukseen median kanssa. Yleisöyden lisäksi esillä on myös median tuotannon ja tekijöiden näkökulmia. Erilaiset viestimet tarjolla olevine sisältöineen ovat tulleet osaksi arkeamme. Varsinkin lisääntynyt internetin käyttö on pakottanut meidät määrittämään toimijas…

A future of journalism beyond the objectivity-dialogue divide? : Hybridity in the news of entrepreneurial journalists

As pioneers of new ideas and practices, many entrepreneurial journalists spearhead the change of journalism towards hybridity. By applying appraisal theory, this article examines a hybrid of objectivity and dialogue in daily news articles by five entrepreneurial journalism outlets – Axios, MustRead, National Observer, The Skimm and the Voice of San Diego. For comparative purposes, a dataset from three legacy media outlets was also analysed. The results show that the entrepreneurial journalism outlets employ journalistic dialogue in otherwise stylistically objective news texts notably more often than do legacy media outlets. Dialogic registers provide subtle, non-partisan assessments of eve…

Interactive Uses of Journalism: Crossing Between Technological Potential and Young People’s News-Using Practices

The article examines the interactive uses of journalism, focusing on the changes brought by new communication technology in the everyday news media uses of young Finns. The study is based on a survey and in-depth interviews. The results indicate that even though young Finns have easy access to new communication technology, journalism is still predominantly used via television and printed newspapers. While nearly all subjects followed news regularly, a fifth of the respondents had taken advantage of participatory activities offered by the news media. Consequently, technology alone does not seem to alter news practices. The interactive usage of journalism thus seems to be individualized ente…