Cynicism ex machina : the emotionality of reporting the ‘refugee crisis’ and Paris terrorist attacks in Czech Television

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F17%3A00096297" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/17:00096297 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0267323117695737" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0267323117695737</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323117695737" target="_blank" >10.1177/0267323117695737</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cynicism ex machina : the emotionality of reporting the ‘refugee crisis’ and Paris terrorist attacks in Czech Television

Original language description

The article seeks to explore crisis reporters’ emotional culture. Their emotional practices are believed to lie at the core of the paradox of the traditional commitment to objectivity/detachment and witnessing other people’s suffering, and thus to be vital for understanding crisis reporting. The article, focusing on reporting the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ and the 13 November Paris terrorist attacks by Czech Television, addresses the question on how crisis reporters’ emotions are articulated by the processes of crisis reporting. The findings, based on (non-)participant observation in newsrooms and semi-structured interviews with journalists, suggest that repetitive reporting of the emotionally disturbing events and witnessing close or distant suffering may result in declared cynicism. The cynicism is understood as a prerequisite for successful performance of the job; at the same time, it is perceived as an emotional posture that threatens professional ideology.

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

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Communication

ISSN

0267-3231

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

242-256

UT code for WoS article

000404044800004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85021128563