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If Everyone with a Camera Can Do This, Then What? Professional Photojournalists' Sense of Professional Threat in the Face of Citizen Photojournalism.
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Visual Communication Quarterly . Jul2013, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p144-158. 15p. 1 Color Photograph, 3 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Today, citizen photojournalists armed with mobile phones can perform many of the tasks of a photojournalist, calling into question whether photojournalists perform a unique and essential service–characteristics of professionals. Photojournalists defend their professionalism through their professional values and skills, but even as they attempt to defend their occupational turf, the resource-poor news organizations for which they work are soliciting and publishing these citizen-shot news images. This study uses a field experiment that manipulates a photo credit line and open-ended responses to assess whether this sense of threatened professionalism exists. Further, this study examines whether citizen photojournalists' assessment of news image quality is impacted by the presence of a professional credit line. This study adds to the current understanding of photojournalism values, citizen-photojournalism values and professional threat [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PHOTOJOURNALISTS
*CELL phones
*CITIZEN journalists
*SOCIAL media
*PROFESSIONALISM
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15551393
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Visual Communication Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 90134806
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2013.820587