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About Actor Positioning in Journalism…Slowly

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Abstract:  In this commentary, I argue that adopting a practice-theoretical research approach helps us to better understand the dispersed nature of journalism and its large web of actors, both traditional and non-traditional. I take innovation as an example that can be fruitfully examined through the practice lens. I also propose narrative positioning analysis as an additional method for digging more deeply—and slowly—into the positions that these varied actors adopt, are offered or placed into.

Keywords:  innovation; journalism; narrative positioning analysis; non-traditional journalism actors; peripheral actors; practice theory

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i4.2574


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