This chapter argues that for increased scholarly attention to the impact that audiences and
new journalistic actors have on the ways in which journalists are (re) conceptualizing their …

This article aims to strengthen the theoretical edifice of role performance theory through
appeal to recent advances in cultural theory. Role performance studies often assert that …

This chapter offers an in-depth discussion of the theoretical framework of the Journalistic
Role Performance Project. It revisits key theoretical aspects that must be taken into account …

Journalists' professional roles entail an important research area, which enhances
knowledge on journalism's attempted impact on political and democratic life. Journalism …

Mobilizer and Entertainment roles are more associated with digital audience engagement,
while Loyal Support and Public Service roles better characterize offline interactions …

Newsrooms are a social context in which numerous relationships exist and influence news
work—be it with other journalists, the audience, and technology. As some of these relations …

This chapter explores how journalists' sense of their social roles might–or might not–be
reflected in the news that they produce. It defines what social roles are and are not and …

To talk about “journalism” is to talk about an abstraction. Recent theorizing has tried to
account for what that abstraction is, much of it settling on journalism as a social institution …

The internet, and particularly social media, have brought far-reaching change to journalism
by calling into question how journalists' traditional roles are perceived. We introduce social …

Like journalists' routines and practices, journalistic roles generally follow logics that are in
accord with the expectations, norms, and practices of a society and its dominant institutions …