Journalistic role conceptions based on the role theory
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Abstract
This study introduces the role theory and journalistic role conceptions based on the role theory. Upon this framework, the study surveys 280 Vietnamese journalists to understand their conceptions about the professional roles. The results show that their role conceptions are universally alike about the work in the categories of interventionist, watchdog, loyalist, civic, infotainment, service. Employing the sociology of mass media approach, the results are fruitful in extending the theories about the global media system and media culture in diversified contexts.
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Journalistic, journalistic role, role theory.
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Mellado, C., & van Dalen, A. (2014). Between rhetoric and practice: Explaining the gap between role conception and performance in journalism. Journalism Studies, 15(6), 859-878.
Phuong, N. P. T. T. Revolutionary journalism in contemporary Vietnam. In J. D. London’s (eds). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam (pp. 532-545). New York, NY: Routledge.
People’s Newspaper. (2020). Press development planning until 2025 approved. Retrieved October 22, 2019, from: https://en.nhandan.com.vn/politics/domestic/item/7317502-press-development-planning-until-2025-approved.html.
Ranji, B. (2020). Journalistic illusio in a restrictive context: Role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment among Iranian journalists. Journalism, 23(2), 517-532.
Raemy, P., Beck, D., & Hellmueller, L. (2019). Swiss journalists’ role performance: The relationship between conceptualized, narrated, and practiced roles. Journalism Studies, 20(6), 765-782.
Relly, J. E., Zanger, M., & Fahmy, S. (2015). Professional role perceptions among Iraqi Kurdish journalists from a ‘state within a state’. Journalism, 16(8), 1085-1106.
Siebert, F. T., Peterson, T. B., & Schramm, W. (1956). Four theories of the press: The authoritarian, libertarian, social responsibility, and Soviet Communist concepts of what the press should be and do. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Tandoc Jr, E. C., Cabañes, J. V. A., & Cayabyab, Y. M. (2019). Bridging the gap: Journalists’ role orientation and role performance on Twitter. Journalism studies, 20(6), 857-871.
van Dalen, A., De Vreese, C. H., & Albæk, E. (2012). Different roles, different content? A four-country comparison of the role conceptions and reporting style of political journalists. Journalism, 13(7), 903-922.
Vu, H. T., Trieu, L. T., & Nguyen, H. T. (2020). Routinizing Facebook: How journalists’ role conceptions influence their social media use for professional purposes in a socialist-communist country. Digital Journalism, 8(7), 885-903.
Waisbord, S. (2013). Reinventing professionalism: News and journalism in global perspective. Massachusetts: Polity Press.
Weiss, A. S. (2015). The digital and social media journalist: A comparative analysis of journalists in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. International Communication Gazette, 77(1), 74–101. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048514556985.