Space for the Liminal

Valerie Belair-Gagnon; Avery E. Holton; Oscar Westlund

doi:10.17645/mac.v7i4.2666

Media and Communication (Dec 2019)

Space for the Liminal

Valerie Belair-Gagnon,
Avery E. Holton,
Oscar Westlund

Affiliations

Valerie Belair-Gagnon: Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, USA
Avery E. Holton: Department of Communication, University of Utah, USA
Oscar Westlund: Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway / Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway / Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i4.2666
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 4
pp. 1 – 7

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This essay considers how social actors in news have come to shape the contours of news and journalism and what these changes may suggest for other industries. It looks more specifically at the question of who does journalism and news and what that may signal for power dependencies, status, and norms formation. It examines how authors who contributed to this thematic issue define who gets to decide what is news and journalism, what forms of power are exerted amongst groups, who gets to claim status, and how norms and epistemologies are formed. Ultimately, this essay illustrates how conformity to groups and organizations varies with the investments that these social actors have to core and more peripheral journalism and media groups.

Published in Media and Communication

ISSN: 2183-2439 (Online)
Publisher: Cogitatio
Country of publisher: Portugal
LCC subjects: Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media
Website: http://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication

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