Introduction: the emotional turn in journalism

Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8461-5795 and Pantti, Mervi 2021. Introduction: the emotional turn in journalism. Journalism 22 (5) , pp. 1147-1154. 10.1177/1464884920985704

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Abstract

In journalism studies, an interest in emotions has gathered momentum during the last decade, leading to an increasingly diverse investigation of the affective and emotional aspects of production, text and audience engagement with journalism which we describe as an “emotional turn.” The attention to emotion in journalism studies is a relatively recent development, sustained by the concurrent rise of digital information technologies that have accentuated the emotional and affective everyday use of media, as well as the increasing mobilization, exploitation and capitalization of emotions in digital media. This special issue both builds upon research on emotion in journalism studies and aims to extend it by examining new theoretical and methodological tools, and areas of empirical analysis, to engage with emotion or affect across the contexts of journalistic production, content and consumption. In proclaiming ‘an emotional turn’ in journalism studies, the intention of this special issue is not to suggest a paradigm shift or a major change in the prevailing research agenda in the field. Rather, against the backdrop of the increasingly diverse field of journalism studies, it is to point out that the relationship between journalism and emotion represents a rapidly developing area of inquiry, which opens up for new research agendas.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1464-8849
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 March 2021
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 19:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139777

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