Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist
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Precarity can be conceived as a fundamental condition of present-day journalism. This notion has primarily been utilized to describe the transformations that occurred with changing employment conditions, market flexibilization, and financial insecurity. While this has become the norm, it often overlooks nuances of precarity that journalists face, such as its bodily and political aspects. In this paper, I explore the extent to which proximity to the events and individuals journalists report on configures their experience of political precarity. To that end, I employ the concept of affective proximity, which refers to how locals navigate and reconcile their emotional and embodied entanglement within events in their country and community. The profession of journalism has traditionally been thought of as predicated on distance. However, this is not often the case for local journalists, who are not only working in but also representing and participating in the community they report on. Bein...g physically present and belonging to that community, these journalists encounter the people they write about in streets, grocery stores, and restaurants. This paper will be based on ten semi-structured, in-depth interviews with journalists working in local media in Serbia. Centered around questions of journalists’ status in the community, the research will shed further light on the perils and risks to their political and social personhood.
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local journalists / affect / proximity / precarity / social statusSource:
Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS, 2023Publisher:
- Novi Sad : Faculty of Philosophy
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- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200025 (University of Belgrade, Institute for Phylosophy and Social Theory) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200025)
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IFDTTY - CONF AU - Išpanović, Igor PY - 2023 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3640 AB - Precarity can be conceived as a fundamental condition of present-day journalism. This notion has primarily been utilized to describe the transformations that occurred with changing employment conditions, market flexibilization, and financial insecurity. While this has become the norm, it often overlooks nuances of precarity that journalists face, such as its bodily and political aspects. In this paper, I explore the extent to which proximity to the events and individuals journalists report on configures their experience of political precarity. To that end, I employ the concept of affective proximity, which refers to how locals navigate and reconcile their emotional and embodied entanglement within events in their country and community. The profession of journalism has traditionally been thought of as predicated on distance. However, this is not often the case for local journalists, who are not only working in but also representing and participating in the community they report on. Being physically present and belonging to that community, these journalists encounter the people they write about in streets, grocery stores, and restaurants. This paper will be based on ten semi-structured, in-depth interviews with journalists working in local media in Serbia. Centered around questions of journalists’ status in the community, the research will shed further light on the perils and risks to their political and social personhood. PB - Novi Sad : Faculty of Philosophy C3 - Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS T1 - Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640 ER -
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Išpanović, I.. (2023). Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist. in Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS Novi Sad : Faculty of Philosophy.. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640
Išpanović I. Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist. in Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS. 2023;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640 .
Išpanović, Igor, "Everybody Knows Everyone Here: Proximity, Precarity and Political Challenges of Being a Local Journalist" in Seventh International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities CONTEXTS (2023), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_3640 .