Where Do We Draw the Line? Interlopers, (Ant)agonists, and an Unbounded Journalistic Field
Abstract: Journalism’s once-neglected periphery has been a focus of academic research in recent years and the urge to make sense of interlopers from the periphery has brought about many approaches to understanding these changes. In this essay I reflect on an ongoing research agenda examining one particular category of interlopers: provocative media actors who have openly challenged the boundaries of the journalistic field. These actors raise questions as to how to account for interlopers at the edges of the journalistic field, including whether we should extend the field to include them. In this essay I argue we should continue to see the field as complex, and maybe now a bit more so. Reflecting on field and practice theories and understandings of boundaries, I reengage the complexity that is a core demand of conceptualizing the journalistic field, while offering ways to consider interlopers’ journalistic identities within its boundaries. Emphasizing similarities over differences, I argue we
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Media and Communication ; 7 (2019) 4 ; 8-18
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Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
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2019
- Creator
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Eldridge II, Scott A.
- DOI
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10.17645/mac.v7i4.2295
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021020515303033638213
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 1:54 PM CET
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- Eldridge II, Scott A.
- SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
Time of origin
- 2019