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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
The explanation of such a trace of Catholic media in Russia is impossible without
taking into consideration many extra-journalism factors, such as Church-State
relations, ecumenical context and so-called Vatican “Ostpolitik”.
New participatory-friendly media technologies and low cost possibilities diminished
the influence of extra-journalism factors and brought new chances for the
development of Catholic journalism in Russia.
Conversational News and Conversational Relationship: The Way Our Symbolic
World is Formed
Kim, Minha
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sungkyunkwan University,
Seoul, South Korea
Compared with the mass mediated news via newspapers and television in modern
societies, interpersonal communication is becoming a primary channel of news flow
between members of the public as shown by a variety of Internet platforms such as
social networking service sites and microblogs. By expanding the notion of news to
include the information that flows between individuals engaged in conversation, this
study proposes the theory of news communication and attempts to explore a
prototype of the news becoming more microscopic in the digitized social networks. In
this study, social relationship formed and mediated by conversation, which is likely to
be dynamic and fluid, is termed as ‘conversational relationship’. News exchanged
between individuals in conversational relationship is conceptualized as
‘conversational news’. The purpose of the present study is to examine how types of
conversational relationship are related to diverging characteristics of conversational
news. Types of conversational relationship are classified in accordance with
homogeneity and heterogeneity of social relationship as well as modes of
conversation. Modes of conversation are determined depending on goals and
motivations of conversation, which include chat, discussion, debate, interview, and
negotiation. Yet, this microcosmic pattern of news communication is believed to
reflect disparities between various ethnic groups. This study, therefore, investigates
how news is communicated between members of societies by taking ethnographic
approach. To this end, anthropological field observation has been conducted to
investigate characteristics of conversational news and patterns of news
communication in several selected groups of foreigners residing in Korea. Following
the field observation, a sentential analysis is performed by using the transcription of
the conversations. In order to visualize how types of conversational relationship are
associated with conversational news, a correspondence analysis is employed to
demonstrate how homogeneous between categories of the primary variables of
conversational relationship and conversational news. This study is also meaningful in
that it proposes a new look into methodology to study conversation and deliberation
by combining qualitative and quantitative approaches.
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