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From Personal to Professional: Exploring the Influences on Journalists’ Evaluation of Citizen Journalism Credibility

Salaudeen, Mistura Adebusola·2022·Journalism Practice
DOI 10.1080/17512786.2021.1892517
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Abstract

The multi-layered participation that has found its way into networked media spaces in recent times have contributed to increased collaboration between mainstream journalists and ordinary citizens as co-creators of media contents. With these progressively blurring boundaries in the news production process, the need to ascertain the evaluation of mainstream media practitioners about the credibility and legitimacy of alternative media platforms have never assumed a more social and professional relevance in the journalism sphere. This study adopts Shoemaker and Reese’s Hierarchy of Influence model as a theoretical template to investigate the extent to which individual, routine, and organisational level influences affect journalists’ perception of citizen journalism credibility. This research is contextualised in Nigeria, an environment with a distinctly dissimilar political, economic, and cultural landscape to the countries of prior research. Findings from a random sample survey (n = 397) revealed, contrary to previous assumption, that journalists’ judgement of citizen journalism as moderately credible, is mostly a consequence of individual-level factors (demographics, career length) and routine level factors (frequency of online media use), rather than by organisational level influences (media affiliation, professional ethics). The peculiarity of Nigerian journalism landscape places professional allegiance and media structures at the lowest level of influences.

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Metadata

Authors
Salaudeen, M. A.
Affiliations
Hong Kong Baptist University
ORCID
Salaudeen, Mistura Adebusola
Venue
Journalism Practice
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2021-03-05
Volume
16
Issue
10
Pages
2040-2063
ISSN
  • 1751-2786
  • 1751-2794
DOI
10.1080/17512786.2021.1892517
Cited by
20
References
75
Language
en

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