Stereotypes in Journalistic Practice. Introduction

Form, Style and Journalistic Strategies an Introduction

Form and style matter in journalism. To a large extent a newspaper’s identity is determined by its appearance and its tone. Readers want to feel comfortable with a paper’s design, its departmentalization and its use of illustrations, colour and headlines. The style of writing and the form of stories should please them. ‘Reading someone else’s newspaper is like sleeping with someone else’s wife’...

Changing Gender Stereotypes in Iran

Abstract In recent decades, because of the vast socio-cultural changes which occurred in Iran, Iranian women have experienced new values and identities and they have achieved more advanced education and consciousness, so that they oppose the gender stereotypes which attribute inferior characteristics to women and cause inequalities and limitations in their everyday life. Although gender stereo...

Social and Journalistic Changes

Social Media in Journalistic Inquiry - Requirements for a Search System incorporating Journalistic Quality Criteria

Social media allow journalists to incorporate additional information into their journalistic inquiry. However, journalists often cannot be certain of the quality of information from social media. IS research has yet to sufficiently address this issue. Most notably, there is no information system that supports searching for social media content about a specific topic while considering journalist...

Monitoring and Predicting Journalistic Profiles

The paper develops a pilot study aiming at finding a methodology for identifying features of journalistic writing profiles. The study is based on capturing dominant discursive tonalities, knowing that journalistic discourse entails public legitimacy. We made use of a series of natural language processing tools as preliminary steps in revealing three egocentric journalistic identities. Based on ...