TY - JOUR
T1 - Metajournalistic Discourse and the Meanings of Journalism
T2 - Definitional Control, Boundary Work, and Legitimation
AU - Carlson, Matt
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - Situating journalism as a cultural practice charged with delivering valid accounts of the world necessitates a theory of metajournalistic discourse to explain how meanings around journalism develop. Through metajournalistic discourse, various actors inside and outside of journalism compete to construct, reiterate, and even challenge the boundaries of acceptable journalistic practices and the limits of what can or cannot be done. Based on the premises that journalism is variable, reliant on context, and produced through social relationships, this article develops a theory of metajournalistic discourse that connects three components—actors, sites/audiences, and topics—to processes of definition making, boundary work, and legitimation.
AB - Situating journalism as a cultural practice charged with delivering valid accounts of the world necessitates a theory of metajournalistic discourse to explain how meanings around journalism develop. Through metajournalistic discourse, various actors inside and outside of journalism compete to construct, reiterate, and even challenge the boundaries of acceptable journalistic practices and the limits of what can or cannot be done. Based on the premises that journalism is variable, reliant on context, and produced through social relationships, this article develops a theory of metajournalistic discourse that connects three components—actors, sites/audiences, and topics—to processes of definition making, boundary work, and legitimation.
KW - Authority
KW - Boundary Work
KW - Journalism
KW - Journalism Theory
KW - Legitimacy
KW - Metajournalistic Discourse
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U2 - 10.1111/comt.12088
DO - 10.1111/comt.12088
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84949309198
VL - 26
SP - 349
EP - 368
JO - Communication Theory
JF - Communication Theory
SN - 1050-3293
IS - 4
ER -