Creating the objectivity: autopoietic practices of TV reality constructing in professional journalistic milieu
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https://doi.org/10.47475/2070-0695-2024-53-3-33-49Keywords:
television, construction of TV reality, autopoesis, professional journalistic milieu, objectivityAbstract
The paper deals with the subjective aspect of the construction of television reality, which is associated with the ideas of constructing process participants about the content and conditions of this activity, as well as their role in this process. The authors explore how professional journalists determine the quality and degree of realism of their author's TV product, and how relevant the problem of realism of a media product is to the community. The authors show what strategic and technological decisions journalists resort to in order to make their product more realistic and / or complying with internal norms and conventions. The paper discusses how the professional status roles of participants in the production of a media product are distributed in terms of their ideas about the contribution of each to the construction of television reality. Thestudy uses a qualitative methodology (unstructured interview). When selecting informants (14 people), the authors took into account the inclusion of respondents in the technological plan of television production activities and professional experience in television. The sample was also based on the geographic variability (large, medium and small cities of Russia) and the level of media (federal, regional, municipal). These criteria were used to identify possible patterns in the autopoietic practices of employees of various media outlets. The authors come to the conclusion that the autopoietic practices of constructing television reality are reflexive, self-evaluative and self-justifying, and the rationalization of journalists' ideas about the constructive nature of activity has certain generation points (their content is determined by a certain context of professional activity and under the influence of subjective and objective factors), as well as it correlates with how actively specialists are included in the technological plan of television production activities.
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