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Tired, Hungry, and on Deadline: Affect and Emotion in the Practice of Conflict Journalism.
- Source :
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Journalism Studies . Sep 2021, Vol. 22 Issue 12, p1574-1589. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The recent "emotional turn" in journalism studies has yet to substantially focus on the role that affect and emotion play in specific practices of journalism. This paper examines the affective/emotional dimensions of journalists coping with exhaustion during a reporting assignment in South Sudan to explore the ways in which the these might meaningfully alter how the practice is performed. I argue that affect/emotion ought not to be understood as simply a form of failure to act rationally, or affective baggage picked up as a result of practice, but as integral to practices of journalism itself. I use the example of exhaustion, its effects on the practices of journalists and their responses to it to point to types of affective/emotional work that journalists undertake in order to both do journalism safely and successfully and to do work which is recognisably "professional" journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1461670X
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journalism Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153685703
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2021.1873819