Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology An Ethnography
This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professiona
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Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology
Johana Kotišová
Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology An Ethnography
Johana Kotišová Faculty of Arts Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
The author of the fictional news report in the Postscript is Koen Vidal. The author of the drawings is Peter Van Goethem. ISBN 978-3-030-21427-2 ISBN 978-3-030-21428-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21428-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This book is an open access publication Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: © Jung Ho Kim / EyeEm//Getty; all rights reserved, used with permission. Cover design: eStudioCalamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To all cynics
Preface
What follows is a research monograph based on in-depth interviews with real people—47 European “crisis reporters”—and ethnographic fieldwork conducted at real places—in three different newsrooms at Czech media organizations—between June 2015 and January 2019. It takes a form of a novel about James, a fictional journalist, taking off for an unpredictable business trip. In other words, the ethnographic data and analysis are framed by a fictional, albeit minimalist, story. As such, the monograph combines factual and fictional narratives, the latter being illustrative—or, to put it in literary terms, serving as an allegory—of the story told and the argu
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