Journalism and Safety

Digital Threats, Professional Fragilities, and Safety Cultures

Kristin Skare Orgeret, Oscar Westlund, Roy Krøvel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040260760
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This book presents selected international research on journalism and safety with a focus on digital threats against journalists and their professional practices. It offers an overview of ongoing developments in the field of journalism and safety from diverse regions around the world.

From various theoretical, conceptual and empirical perspectives, the chapters address the escalating global concern of pervasive phenomena such as cyber-surveillance, orchestrated attacks, trolling and online harassment and underscore the precariousness of journalists' work in various geographical locations. A section of the book examines the safety conditions of female journalists, focusing on their responses to gendered online attacks and hate speech, whereas another section analyses and discusses institutional and cultural responses to journalists' safety. The chapters draw on data from diverse geo-cultural regions globally, and collectively the volume provides a comprehensive overview of recent research on digital threats to journalists' safety and responses to some of the challenges. Additionally, it presents valuable concepts for further scholarly reflection on these issues.

The second of two volumes, this book will be a key resource for scholars, practitioners and researchers of journalism, media and cultural studies, communication studies, and sociology. The chapters in the book were originally published in Digital Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Journalism Practice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Digital Threats, Professional Fragilities, and Safety Cultures
• 1 Under Attack in the Cyber Battlefield: A Scoping Review of Journalists’ Experiences of Cyberharassment
• 2 “We Have to act Like our Devices are Already Infected”: Investigative Journalists and Internet Surveillance
• 3 Trolling Journalists and the Risks of Digital Publicity
• 4 Becoming a Target: Journalists’ Perspectives on Anti-Press Discourse and Experiences with Hate Speech
• 5 Tired, Hungry, and on Deadline: Affect and Emotion in the Practice of Conflict Journalism
• 6 “I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists
• 7 “Journalists Are Prepared for Critical Situations … but We Are Not Prepared for This”: Empirical and Structural Dimensions of Gendered Online Harassment
• 8 Time’s up. Or is it? Journalists’ Perceptions of Sexual Violence and Newsroom Changes after #MeTooIndia
• 9 Worsening Safety Conditions for Women Journalists in Turkey’s Alternative News Media
• 10 Invisible in This Visual World? Work and Working Conditions of Female Photographers in the Global South
• 11 “Not Their Fault, but Their Problem”: Organizational Responses to the Online Harassment of Journalists
• 12 Coping with Occupational Stress in Journalism: Professional Identities and Advocacy as Resources
• 13 Precarious Professionalism: Journalism and the Fragility of Professional Practice in the Global South
• 14 Between Attack and Resilience: The Ongoing Institutionalization of Independent Digital Journalism in Brazil
• 15 Understanding Nascent Newsroom Security and Safety Cultures: The Emergence of the “Security Champion”
• Index