Help Me Investigate: the social practices of investigative journalism
Last week I attended the 2010 conference of the International Association of Media & Communication Research where amongst other things I gave a paper, Help Me Investigate: the social practices of investigative journalism. Taking all of your ideas and presenting them in less than 15 minutes is pretty
Last week I attended the 2010 conference of the International Association of Media & Communication Research where amongst other things I gave a paper, Help Me Investigate: the social practices of investigative journalism.
Taking all of your ideas and presenting them in less than 15 minutes is pretty hard going when you’re used to having captive audiences in lecture rooms for up to an hour, so I was delighted that several people wanted to read the full paper and get some more detail from me. So here it is, my full paper.
Some folk I know will be a little put off by these 8,000+ words, so if you’re not used to reading academic work, the best plan is to read the abstract, then the conclusion and then work your way through the detail. You can also catch a pithy version of one of the themes over at Interactive Cultures. This is draft work at the moment. Following a pep talk from Paul Long (my BCU colleague – Reader in Cultural Studies at Birmingham School of Media) yesterday, I’ll be honing this down for publication over the rest of the summer.
ethnographyofonlinenewsFINAL.pdf
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