'Sharing expertise with the public': The production of communicability and the ethics of media dialogical networking

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F22%3A10434568" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/22:10434568 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=yS7wWGJ.-m" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=yS7wWGJ.-m</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100560" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100560</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

'Sharing expertise with the public': The production of communicability and the ethics of media dialogical networking

Original language description

This paper examines two controversies implicating psychiatrists in order to shine a light on the ethics of experts&apos; media dialogical networking. Employing a dual approach to discourse underpinned by membership categorisation and narrative analysis, and making a corresponding distinction between communicability as reportability and as tellability, I show that MDNs are not just sequences of arguments and counter-arguments, but also sequences of happenings that redefine situations and reposition actors. In the cases examined, each expert is accused of inappropriate behaviour - public talk unbecoming of experts. I reconstruct the interactive negotiations around communication ethics between experts and journalists in interviews and show how these interactions and the distributed reactions they provoked elsewhere in the controversy-related MDNs were narrativised in summarising news reports and interview introductions, positioning experts more as protagonists than as category incumbents. Taking media dialogical networking as social practice and performative discursive repertoire, I show how its dual - narrative-routine - performance involves trade-offs between reportability and tellability, rendering problematic any simple rule covering experts&apos; voice entitlements, i.e. knowing when, where and how it is appropriate to offer a professional opinion. The public conversation about mental illness, however, is enriched by these imbrications.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-01116S" target="_blank" >GA17-01116S: Civic engagement and the politics of health care</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Discourse, Context and Media

ISSN

2211-6958

e-ISSN

2211-6966

Volume of the periodical

45

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

000726985200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85119587285