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DIGITAL JOURNALISM
Volume 5, Issue 7, Pages 868-883Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2016.1208054
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digital journalists; in-depth interviews; in-group/out-group; journalism; qualitative; social identity theory
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This study utilizes interviews with 53 full-time digital journalists to understand how they construct their identity. With social identity theory as a framework, the study found that medium, organizational backing, and role conception represent characteristics essential to being a digital journalist (the in-group). While the journalists also identified blogging, social media, and citizen journalism as characteristics that, in some cases, exclude persons from calling themselves digital journalists (the out-group). These results are then interpreted through the lens of social identity theory.
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