Abstract
This essay will first consider the innovative potential of crises in general before specifically addressing the crisis of journalism from the network perspective through a comparison of the emergence of the penny papers in the 1830s with the present. The following section will develop a new model to regard practices of cultural production, i.e. journalistic practices, within the tradition of Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu, and more recent scholarship in sociology and media history. This model will put forward the thesis that the widespread adoption of journalistic practices by amateurs can be regarded as an exemplary case of cultural innovation, where “media-oriented practices” (Couldry 119) are regarded as a new form of cultural production among members of the former audience. The point here is not to restate the case for “citizen journalism,” as has been argued by Dan Gillmor (2004) and others, because the practices of production within a company like CNN or The New York Times continue to differ tremendously from those used by individual bloggers. The argument stresses that the moment of crisis offers the chance to acknowledge the altered status of publicly available texts, messages and information among an audience that oscillates between productive and consumptive patterns of interaction (Bruns 2008; Jenkins 2008).
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Titel | States of Emergency - States of Crisis. REAL – Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (Volume 27) |
| Antal sider | 21 |
| Udgivelsessted | Tübingen |
| Forlag | Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Publikationsdato | 2011 |
| Sider | 143-164 |
| ISBN (Trykt) | 978-3-8233-4182-6 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2011 |