Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies

Digital Journalism, Volume 10, 2022 - Issue 1: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.2024764

Autor: 

1.  Joëlle Swart; Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; j.a.c.swart@rug.nl; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2326-8424
2. Tim Groot Kormelink; Language, Literature and Communication, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-7536
3. Irene Costera Meijer; Language, Literature and Communication, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 

Abstract: Despite its increasing attention for audiences, journalism studies remains an inherently production-focused discipline. Consequently, studying the perspective of audiences tends to automatically start from questions relevant for and benefitting the news industry. In this introduction, we argue for a more radical audience turn that pushes journalism studies forward beyond normative and industry concerns, and starts from the perspective of audiences themselves. We formulate four constructive starting points for advancing the audience turn in journalism: 1) further decentering journalism by also focusing on non-news and employing non-media centric approaches; 2) broadening who counts as audience by including audiences considered commercially unattractive; 3) shifting the focus from what counts as news use to what is experienced as informative; and 4) positing audiences as active agents. However, such a radical audience turn also creates fundamental dilemmas for journalism studies, raising questions about the field’s object of study, the spaces and contexts of news use considered, and the objectives of journalism studies as a field. With this special issue, we call for further reflections on how news and informational needs may be conceptualized from an audience perspective and how to theorize what this means for journalism’s role in society and everyday life.

Keywords: Audience studies; audience turn; journalism; journalism studies; news use; news consuption.   

Idioma: English. 

Publicación: 16 de febrero del 2022. 

Volumen: Digital Journalism, Volume 10, 2022 - Issue 1: Advancing the Audience Turn in Journalism. 

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Directoras de cine argentinas y españolas. Una década re-creando imaginarios.

Cuadernos.info nº 46 pag 96-128. https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.46.1459

Autor: 

1. Trinidad Núñez Domínguez, Facultad de Comunicación, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, España, (mtnunez@us.es)  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-7402
2. María Teresa Vera Balanza, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, España, (mvb@uma.es) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3089-4469

Keyword: directoras argentinas; directoras españolas; cine; familias; compromiso político.

Abstract: Even though Latin American cinema is well consolidated now, there are not many comparative studies besides generalist approaches. This article presents an inventory of female Argentine and Spanish directors, as well as their films, from 2000 to 2010, a period marked by the generational change in film industry of both countries and determined by a sociopolitical context democratically consolidated and hampered by economic fluctuations. The objective is twofold: to make women filmmakers visible and to assess their meeting points and divergences. As a method, we chose a descriptive design, applying both a quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis. We conducted a compilation, synthesis, and correlation of works and themes, reaching a corpus of 72 female directors and 138 productions. The results show that there are common issues that reveal the report of unsolved situations for women: motherhood, female homosociality or ideas about love and sex, the experience or the memory of repression, the structural violence of the authoritarian state and the transformations of the ways of life. There are also differences in terms of times and opportunities, styles and genders, which are typical of the coexistence of diverse but creative film trajectories, all of which are stories that break with limited social models and open up to social commitment.

Resumen: Aunque el cine latinoamericano está muy afianzado, existen insuficientes estudios comparados. Este artículo presenta un inventario de directoras y películas argentinas y españolas, desde 2000 a 2010, un período marcado por el relevo generacional en la industria cinematográfica de ambos países y determinado por un contexto sociopolítico consolidado democráticamente y lastrado por los vaivenes económicos. El objetivo es doble: dar visibilidad a las realizadoras y a las temáticas que abordan, y valorar puntos de encuentro y divergencias entre temáticas y representaciones de la realidad. Como método se opta por un diseño descriptivo y la aplicación de un análisis comparativo, tanto cuantitativo como cualitativo. Se efectúa una recopilación, síntesis y correlación de obras y temáticas que alcanza un corpus de 72 directoras y 138 producciones. Los resultados muestran que existen hilos comunes que delatan la denuncia de situaciones no resueltas para las mujeres: la maternidad, la homosociabilidad femenina o las ideas sobre el amor y el sexo, la vivencia o el recuerdo de la represión, la violencia estructural del estado autoritario y las transformaciones de los modos de vida. Acusan diferencias en cuanto a los tiempos y oportunidades, los estilos y los géneros, propias de la coexistencia de trayectorias fílmicas diversas, pero creadoras todas de unos relatos que rompen con modelos sociales limitados y que se abren al compromiso social.

Idioma: Español/inglés.  

Publicación: 13 de abril del 2020.

Volumen: Cuadernos.info nº 46 pag 96-128. 

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Introduction: touch, click and motion: archaeologies of fashion film after digital culture.

Journal of visual culture Vol 19, n°3 https://doi.org/10.1177/14704129209660

Autor: 

1. Caroline Evans: Professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1553-2715
2. Jussi Parikka: School of Communication and Culture, Department of Digital Design and Information Studies; parikka@cc.au.dk;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-6377. 

Keywords: cinema; digital; fashion; film; media archaeology.

Abstract: This article functions as the introduction to the Themed Issue on Archaeologies of Fashion Film. The text introduces fashion film as a genre and as an historically dynamic form of audiovisual expression that we approach through fashion history, media archaeology and new film history. While introducing key concepts and approaches, the authors propose a form of ‘parallax historiography’, a term emerging from Thomas Elsaesser’s work, that links different time periods from early cinema to recent digital platforms, even ‘post-cinema’. The introduction makes references to the contributions in this issue that address historical conditions of emergence, marginal voices in the historical record and unexcavated archival materials; and the issue shows how they all contain feedback loops or recursive traits that resonate in contemporary practice where infrastructures of platforms and data frame the moving image.

Idioma: English. 

Publicación: December 7, 2020.

Volumen: Journal of visual culture Vol 19 n°3. 

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