Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology: An Ethnography

by Johana Kotisovï

Overview

This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it illustrates how media professionals learn to think and act within crisis situations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists reporting on wars, terror attacks and natural disasters, the book rethinks traditional concepts in journalistic thought. Finally, it reflects on the specific, contemporary vulnerabilities of industry professionals, including the impact of new technologies, specific forms of precarity, and a particular strain of cynicism central to the industry. Combining comprehensive, empirical research with the fictional narrative of a journalist protagonist, Crisis Reporters, Emotions and Technology establishes an innovative approach to academic storytelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030214289
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	07/29/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Johana Kotišová is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Crisis Reporting: Setting Out.- 2. Defining a Crisis: Boarding.- 3. The Emotional Experience of Crisis Reporters: The Journey.- 4. Articulating Journalists' Emotional Experiences of Crisis: Touching Down.- 5. Emotions, Technology, and Crisis Reconsidered: Ending.- 6. Creative Nonfiction and the Research Method.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is an impressive book— incredibly intelligent, well formulated, knowledgeable, deep and beautifully structured.” (Thomas Ubbesen, foreign correspondent and writer)

“It is rare that a scholarly work is both deeply moving and informative. Johana Kotišová has given us exactly such a book. Her impeccable research makes journalists human again, and forces us to confront our own vulnerability as we are confronted with theirs.” (Mark Deuze, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

“Johana Kotisova has researched a highly innovative study that draws on rigorous newsroom ethnography and in-depths interviews to investigate journalists’ emotions in crisis situations. This outstanding scholarly work sheds an illuminating light on the complex interplay between professional journalists, news room pressures, technology, and crisis events. The book is eloquently written and a must-read for students, scholars, journalists and citizens.” (Florian Zollmann, Lecturer in Journalism, Newcastle University, UK)