Fixers and Stringers · Fixers, Stringers, and Foreign Crews: The distribution of risks and emotions in crisis reporting
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2021-02-01 → 2023-11-01
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 175 572 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MSCA-IF
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Накратко на български
Рисковете и психическото състояние на местните журналисти и помощници (фиксери), работещи за чуждий медиен екип в Украйна и Израел/Палестина, са в центъра на анализа. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране на етичните проблеми и неравенствата в глобалния журналистически труд.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
Fixers, Stringers, and Foreign Crews: The distribution of risks and emotions in crisis reporting
Reporters covering wars, conflicts, and crises often collaborate with local media professionals: local fixers, producers, journalists, and locally based freelancers. These local media professionals remain invisible while facing the most severe work-related risks and dangers. Some of these risks are well-known from previous research. The Fixers & Stringers project investigates forms of precarity that have been overlooked. It focuses on mental well-being and emotional labour of fixers and stringers working for foreign media in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine and on related - less obvious - forms of power circulating among media professionals working within the specific areas. The research is based on in-depth interviews with fixers, local producers, stringers, and foreign reporters and on online ethnography. Its goal is not only to refine our knowledge of media professionals who cover wars and conflicts but also to raise awareness of precarity, emotional labour, and mental well-being issues of those who are at home in war zones. Eventually, the project seeks to contribute to more ethical global journalism.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
The proposed research project seeks to understand links among the least visible actors and aspects of conflict reporting. It explores forms of precarity experienced and emotional labour performed by local newsworkers who work for foreign news crews or foreign media on the spot (fixers and stringers) and the multidirectional power relationships of the journalism ecosystem in two conflict zones, Israel and Ukraine. Based on thirty in-depth interviews with fixers, stringers, and foreign correspondents, and on their autoethnographies, the research addresses the following questions: What emotional labour do fixers and stringers in Israel and Ukraine perform? What forms of precarity do fixers and stringers in Israel and Ukraine experience? How does power circulate among fixers, stringers, and various other actors within the particular conflict newsmaking ecologies? The research interweaves three flourishing research streams and trends in journalism studies: it adds to knowledge on the diverse precarity of newswork, deepens understanding of newsworkers’ emotional labour, and helps to further de-Westernize journalism studies. The research findings will be communicated not only through academic publications, but also using a variety of creative methods that will help to reach the community of media professionals in the European Union and beyond. By raising awareness of fixers’ and stringers’ emotional labour and forms of precarity, the research project seeks to contribute to more ethical global journalism.The fellowship will stregthen my expertise in crisis reporting, newsworkers’ emotional labour, participatory and creative methods; it will also help me to build a network of potential partners of my future applied research projects and improve my employability inside and outside academia. As such, the fellowship will significantly enhance my future career prospects.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · AmsterdamКоординаторНидерландия
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз