Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
Field Theory; Lifestyle Journalism; Mobile; Mobile Journalism; Role Conception;technology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2018.1424021
Abstract
Mobile journalism is one of the fastest areas of growth in the modern journalism industry. Yet mobile journalists find themselves in a place of tension, between print, broadcast, and digital journalism and between traditional journalism and lifestyle journalism. Using the lens of field theory, the present study conducted an online survey of mobile journalists (N = 39) from six countries representing four continents on how they conceive of their journalistic role, and how their work is perceived within the newsroom. Participants were journalists in television, print, magazine, and digital local and national newsrooms. The present study sought to understand how mobile journalists see mobile production as a part of their journalistic role, and what field theory dimensions influence mobile production in their newsrooms. While prior research has established a growing prevalence of lifestyle journalism, the present study finds that the growth of mobile journalism represents the development of lifestyle journalism norms, such as content driven by the audience, within even traditional journalism.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journalism Practice, v. 13, issue 3, p. 331-348
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journalism Practice on 16 Jan 2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17512786.2018.1424021.
Scholar Commons Citation
Perreault, Gregory P. and Stanfield, Kellie, "Mobile Journalism as Lifestyle Journalism?: Field Theory in the Integration of Mobile in the Newsroom and Mobile Journalist Role Conception" (2019). School of Advertising & Mass Communications Faculty Publications. 35.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/com_facpub/35
