Witschge, T, Anderson, CW orcid.org/0000-0002-3893-8411, Domingo, D et al. (1 more author) (2019) Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies. Journalism: theory, practice and criticism, 20 (5). pp. 651-659. ISSN 1464-8849
Abstract
In this article, we discuss the rise and use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies. Hybridity afforded a meaningful intervention in a discipline that had the tendency to focus on a stabilized and homogeneous understanding of the field. Nonetheless, we now need to reconsider its deployment, as it only partially allows us to address and understand the developments in journalism. We argue that if scholarship is to move forward in a productive manner, we need, rather than denote everything that is complex as hybrid, to develop new approaches to our object of study. Ultimately, this is an open invitation to the field to adopt experientialist, practice-based approaches that help us overcome the ultimately limited binary dualities that have long governed our theoretical and empirical work in the field.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Boundary work, complexity, constructivism, experientialist approach, hybridity, journalism studies, normativity, practice theory |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2018 13:03 |
Last Modified: | 01 May 2019 05:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1464884918760669 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:128897 |