journalists in online media: perspectives from the brics countries svetlana pasti, university of...
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Journalists in online media:
Perspectives from the BRICS countries
Svetlana Pasti, University of Tampere IAMCR 2014, Hyderabad India, 15-19 July
Journalism Research & Education (JRE)
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BRICS countries
Brazil 26 states 194 mill
Russia 83 federal units 143
India 35 states etc 1.225
China 33 provinces etc 1.341
South Africa 9 provinces 522
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BRICS Summits
1. Yekaterinburg (Russia) 20092. Brasilia (Brazil) 20103. Sanya (China) 2011 4. Delhi (India) 2012 5. Durban (South Africa) 2013 6. Fortaleza (Brazil) 2014
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Media Systems in Flux: The Challenge of the BRICS Countries
• Funded by Academy of Finland, 2012-2016 http://uta.fi/cmt/tutkimus/BRICS.html
• Theoretical concepts of - media system - role of media and journalists in democracies - freedom and independence of media• Empirical mapping of - citizen participation in and through media - professional orientation of journalists - education of journalists 5
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BRICS project partners
• Brazil: Universities of Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Juiz de Fora, Texas at Austin
• Russia: Universities of Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Tampere
• India: Universities of Tamil Nadu, Hyderabad, Westminster, Miami
• China: Universities of Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Vancouver
• South Africa: Universities of Cape Town, Pretoria, Grahamstown
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Survey of BRICS journalists, 2012-2014
• In-depth interview of journalists face-to-face, using a recorder, in the native language of the interviewee
• Two metro cities (capital and 2nd largest): 48 journalists from 24 media
• Two provincial cities: 24 journalists from 12 media • 144 journalists per country, total 720 • Sample includes old and online media
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BRICS study sample: Cities
• Brazil: Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Vitoria, Juiz de Fora
• Russia: Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Petrozavodsk
• India: Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune• China: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan• South Africa: Johannesburg, Cape Town,
Durban, Port Elizabeth
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BRICS study is pioneering
• No earlier global projects included journalists from all five BRICS countries
• Our study will compare journalists in each of the BRICS countries:
• 1) with journalists in western countries • 2) with journalists from the countries in the
second wave of the global WJS study• 3) with journalists in the BRICS countries
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Research focus
• Differences between new and old news media • In mainstream comparative research, online
news media have received little attention• Number of online media continue to increase• The definition of new media is unclear
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New media in the BRICS study
• Our study defines new online news media as separately established and independent internet media organizations
• They are not just digital newsrooms or online versions of conventional newspapers, magazines or radio-television stations
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Interview: Main topics
• Demographic data • Job conditions: new technology, economy, satisfaction• Journalists and society: citizen participation, freedom of
speech• Professionalism and ethics: perception of
professionalism, political independence, self- regulation, corruption• Present status and future of the profession
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Work in progress
• Interviews started in 2012 • To be finished in 2014• Coding and analysis in 2014• Country reports in 2014• Comparison and final report in 2015
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Total number of journalists in BRICS
• Brazil – 145.000 • Russia – 250.000 (freelancers: 25.000)• India – 40.000 • China – 260,000 (freelancers: 1 million)• South Africa – 35.000• (US – 120.000)
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Digital world of BRICS Countries Registered
domains/websitesAccounts in social media
Brazil 3.05 million: 16 websites per thousand people
58.7 million: 69% of online population
Russia 4.6 million: 31.9 websites per thousand people
65.8 million” 46% of population
India 700.956: 0.579 per thousand people
60.5 million Facebook users: 74,75% of online population
China 7.9 million: 5.7 websites per thousand people
250 million blog accounts: 48,7% of population
South Africa 869.910: 17.05 websites per thousand people
23.76 million: 279,52% of online population
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Top ten Internet users, in millions
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Online journalism in BRICS
Brazil: Raquel Paiva, Rio de JaneiroTwenty years of online journalism in Brazil: A mirror of the countryRussia: Dmitrii Gavra, St. Petersburg State University Journalists of the Russian online media: Values and Professionalism India: G. Nagamallika, HyderabadUnderstanding online journalism: Redefining news coverage in India China: Yu Xu, Beijing and Raymond Ruiming Zhou, Shanghai Online journalism in China: Views from a period of transition South Africa: Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu, Cape Town What is the state and future of online journalism in South Africa?
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