Informationsgeneralister och kunskapsspecialister : en sociokulturell undersökning av journalisters informationssökande
(2016) ABMM54 20161Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies
Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
- Abstract
- Journalists’ ability to seek and use information can be seen as constructing our view of reality, since the informational choices that are made by journalists’ form the picture of society produced by media. Therefor journalists’ information literacy and work with information seeking have an important societal role that should not be taken for granted. The purpose of this thesis is to create an understanding of what constitutes being and becoming an information literate journalist and how information literacy manifests itself within journalistic work.
Data has been gathered using semi-structured interviews and ethnographical observations of journalists’ at one of Sweden’s larger local newspapers. This data has been analysed mainly... (More) - Journalists’ ability to seek and use information can be seen as constructing our view of reality, since the informational choices that are made by journalists’ form the picture of society produced by media. Therefor journalists’ information literacy and work with information seeking have an important societal role that should not be taken for granted. The purpose of this thesis is to create an understanding of what constitutes being and becoming an information literate journalist and how information literacy manifests itself within journalistic work.
Data has been gathered using semi-structured interviews and ethnographical observations of journalists’ at one of Sweden’s larger local newspapers. This data has been analysed mainly within a theoretical framework of contemporary socio-cultural research about information literacy and information seeking within working life contexts. The main conclusion of the study is that information literacy must be seen as a core ability not only for journalists’ information seeking, but for journalistic work in general. A second conclusion is that journalists’ information literacy is tightly connected with their fields of coverage and their understanding of the tacit, contextual and discursive nature of knowledge within these.
This study might be useful in proposing that information seeking, as a core activity in journalistic work, needs further investigation. With the conclusion that journalists’ information literacy and information seeking is strongly related to an understanding of social contexts outside of their own working environment, the study also shows that research in these areas benefit from a sociocultural perspective. (Less)
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- author
- Martinsson, Lars Olov LU
- supervisor
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- Olof Sundin LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Information generalists and knowledge specialists : a socio-cultural study of journalistic information literacy
- course
- ABMM54 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Information studies, Information literacy, Socio-cultural perspective, Journalism, Information retrieval, Practice theory
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8878141
- date added to LUP
- 2016-08-19 13:43:22
- date last changed
- 2016-08-19 13:43:22
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abstract = {{Journalists’ ability to seek and use information can be seen as constructing our view of reality, since the informational choices that are made by journalists’ form the picture of society produced by media. Therefor journalists’ information literacy and work with information seeking have an important societal role that should not be taken for granted. The purpose of this thesis is to create an understanding of what constitutes being and becoming an information literate journalist and how information literacy manifests itself within journalistic work.
Data has been gathered using semi-structured interviews and ethnographical observations of journalists’ at one of Sweden’s larger local newspapers. This data has been analysed mainly within a theoretical framework of contemporary socio-cultural research about information literacy and information seeking within working life contexts. The main conclusion of the study is that information literacy must be seen as a core ability not only for journalists’ information seeking, but for journalistic work in general. A second conclusion is that journalists’ information literacy is tightly connected with their fields of coverage and their understanding of the tacit, contextual and discursive nature of knowledge within these.
This study might be useful in proposing that information seeking, as a core activity in journalistic work, needs further investigation. With the conclusion that journalists’ information literacy and information seeking is strongly related to an understanding of social contexts outside of their own working environment, the study also shows that research in these areas benefit from a sociocultural perspective.}},
author = {{Martinsson, Lars Olov}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Informationsgeneralister och kunskapsspecialister : en sociokulturell undersökning av journalisters informationssökande}},
year = {{2016}},
}