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Producing Journalistic Authority in the Age of Digital Media: Temporality, Media Affordance, and Ethical Reflexivity in Turkey’s Media Sphere
Author(s) -
Özkan Nazlı
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12226
Subject(s) - temporality , reflexivity , newspaper , affordance , digital media , mediation , sociology , temporalities , media studies , craft , citizen journalism , deliberation , ethnography , political science , visual arts , politics , art , social science , law , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , cognitive psychology , anthropology
This article examines how journalists in Turkey form their authority and strengthen control over their news craft in the digital age through processing ( işlemek ) the news. Processing combines two crucial components: ethical engagement with news stories and a flexible time frame. Drawing on ethnographic and visual analysis of televisual, newspaper, and internet production at Turkey’s socialist Yüzyıl newspaper, I argue that journalists invest more heavily in non‐digital mediums like television and print because they provide a more flexible temporality to process information through investigation and ethical deliberation.