The WAN-IFRA discourse: advice, application, and disqualification of organisational models in media
Titre | The WAN-IFRA discourse: advice, application, and disqualification of organisational models in media |
Type de publication | Article |
Année de publication | 2014 |
Langue | Anglais |
Titre de la revue | Brazilian Journalism Research |
Volume | 10 |
Numéro | 1 |
Auteur(s) | Langonné, J. et Prodhomme M. |
ISSN | 1981-9854 |
Mots-clés | Convergence, Economic model, Information company, Organisational model |
Résumé | Among the multiple exhortations made on the liberating - even saviour-type - role of the digital era over the past ten years in the field of journalism, one constant has remained: criticism of managerial models and dialectic of economic ones in the media which have defined the spheres of action, resulting in these discourses without ever sealing their fate. A fate that for several years now has been marked by a process in which journalists are being cast aside in favour of a managerial standpoint that broadly integrates 'convergence' as a tool of governance. This paper aims to question (as one of many mediations instituting convergence as a structuring model) WAN-IFRA's discursive and ideological materiality. This international organisation of newspapers and news publishers has set its sights on convincing the print media of the necessity to switching to multiformat; to convergence. This work investigates the stability and/or instability of the WAN-IFRA discourse, as well as its ability to absorb other discourses. Lastly, through a cloud of prescriptive discourse it will indicate those discourses enforced by some managers in the media business. |
DOI | 10.25200/BJR.v10n1.2014.624 |