Challenged by the state and the Internet: Struggles for professionalism in Southeast Asian journalism

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  • Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen
As in other regions, journalism in Southeast Asia is under pressure. Journalists in many of the region’s emerging markets have to develop their profession while struggling with changing market conditions, increasingly more demanding audiences, different degrees of authoritative states and growing competition from the Internet. Based on qualitative interviews and drawing on a combination of role theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, this article compares the role performances of journalists in Singapore and Vietnam by looking into the different expectations journalists in the two countries meet. The article illustrates how journalists continue to feel most conflicted about conforming with the states’ expectations to their profession. However, online actors imposing on the journalistic field are beginning to have a progressively bigger impact. Though they push the boundaries and set the media agenda, journalists fear they are changing the journalistic habitus, devaluing the journalistic capital and eroding years’ worth of professionalization progress.
Bidragets oversatte titelUdfordret af staten og af internettet: Kampen for professionalisme i Sydøstasiatisk journalistik
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftMedieKultur
Vol/bind33
Udgave nummer62
Sider (fra-til)18-34
Antal sider17
ISSN1901-9726
StatusUdgivet - jun. 2017

    Forskningsområder

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet - Journalism, Southeast Asia, Internet, Media legislation, professionalisering, field theory, role theory

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