1st Edition
Journalism and Safety Digital Threats, Professional Fragilities, and Safety Cultures
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 geo-cultural 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.
Introduction: Addressing the Fragility of Journalists’ Safety and Digital Threats in Today’s World
Kristin Skare Orgeret, Oscar Westlund and Roy Krøvel
1. Under Attack in the Cyber Battlefield: A Scoping Review of Journalists’ Experiences of Cyberharassment
Francesca Sammut, Malcolm Bezzina and Josianne Scerri
2. “We Have to act Like our Devices are Already Infected”: Investigative Journalists and Internet Surveillance
Philip Di Salvo
3. Trolling Journalists and the Risks of Digital Publicity
Silvio Waisbord
4. Becoming a Target: Journalists’ Perspectives on Anti-Press Discourse and Experiences with Hate Speech
Čedomir Markov and Ana Đorđević
5. Tired, Hungry, and on Deadline: Affect and Emotion in the Practice of Conflict Journalism
Richard Stupart
6. “I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists
Annina Claesson
7. Journalists are Prepared for Critical Situations … but We are Not Prepared for This”: Empirical and Structural Dimensions of Gendered Online Harassment
Susana Sampaio-Dias, Maria João Silveirinha, Bibiana Garcez, Filipa Subtil, João Miranda and Carla Cerqueira
8. Time's up. Or is it? Journalists’ Perceptions of Sexual Violence and Newsroom Changes after #MeTooIndia
Chindu Sreedharan, Einar Thorsen and Ananya Gouthi
9. Worsening Safety Conditions for Women Journalists in Turkey’s Alternative News Media
Özlem Erkmen, Bora Ataman and Barış Çoban
10. Invisible in This Visual World? Work and Working Conditions of Female Photographers in the Global South
Saumava Mitra, Brenda L. Witherspoon and Sara Creta
11. “Not Their Fault, but Their Problem”: Organizational Responses to the Online Harassment of Journalists
Avery E. Holton, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Diana Bossio and Logan Molyneux
12. Coping with Occupational Stress in Journalism: Professional Identities and Advocacy as Resources
Sallie Hughes, Laura Iesue, Hilda Fernández de Ortega Bárcenas, Judith Cruz Sandoval and José Carlos Lozano
13. Precarious Professionalism: Journalism and the Fragility of Professional Practice in the Global South
Julian Matthews and Kelechi Onyemaobi
14. Between Attack and Resilience: The Ongoing Institutionalization of Independent Digital Journalism in Brazil
Sarah Anne Ganter and Fernando Oliveira Paulino
15. Understanding Nascent Newsroom Security and Safety Cultures: The Emergence of the “Security Champion”
Jennifer R. Henrichsen
Biography
Kristin Skare Orgeret (Dr.Art) is Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, where she co-leads the research group MEKK (Media, War and Conflict) and organizes annual international conferences on the safety of journalists. She leads the international research project DD-MAC on the role of digital media in ongoing violent conflicts in Africa. She specializes in journalism in conflict situations, global journalism and power relations, and media and gender.
Oscar Westlund (PhD) is Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, where he co-leads the OsloMet Digital Journalism Research Group. He holds a secondary appointment at University of Gothenburg and is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism. He specializes in digital journalism, fact-checking, platforms, epistemology, media management, news consumption, and mobile media.
Roy Krøvel (PhD) is Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, where he co-leads the OsloMet Media, War and Conflict Research Group with Professor Orgeret. He holds a secondary appointment at the Sami University in Kautokeino, Norway, and is the co-organizer of the annual Safety of Journalists conference in Oslo. He specializes in the safety of journalists, investigative and data journalism, the uses of AI in journalism, Indigenous Journalism, and war and peace journalism.
