This chapter offers an in-depth discussion of the theoretical framework of the Journalistic
Role Performance Project. It revisits key theoretical aspects that must be taken into account …

It has since been eleven years since the rise of the “Arab Spring”: a series of anti-
government uprisings that spread across the Arab world, ultimately leading to regime …

The article reviews the main concepts and dilemmas illustrating the debate on the
connections between media and politics. Considering that experiences in Political …

One of the main challenges of studying journalistic roles in social media practice is that the
profession's conceptual boundaries have become increasingly blurred. Social media has …

This paper considers the use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies, arguing that
the concept of hybridity has served an important role in reorienting the field in the face of …

Based on a standardized operationalization of the watchdog, civic, interventionist, loyal-
facilitator, infotainment, and service roles, this study combines survey (N= 643) and content …

The watchdog role has been one of the most widely discussed normative functions of the
press. In this study, we examine the public's attitudes toward the news media's watchdog …

The article aims to capture the diversity of emerging practices in fact-checking by exploring,
on the one side, journalists' self-perception of the watchdog role they believe to perform and …

The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative
research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been …

The unprecedented power of Big Tech corporations and the complexity of regulating them
requires considering the role of news media as a corporate accountability mechanism. The …