Blurred Boundaries or Conflicting Epistemologies: Information activism and journalism in Egypt
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Blurred Boundaries or Conflicting Epistemologies : Information activism and journalism in Egypt. / Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke.
In: Journalism Practice, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2017, p. 48-61.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Blurred Boundaries or Conflicting Epistemologies
T2 - Information activism and journalism in Egypt
AU - Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In this article, I discuss how information activists and journalists in Egypt claimed to acquire knowledge about the world, looking particularly at the period of 2012 and 2013, during which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Mohammed Morsi in turn were leading the country. Taking a point of departure in anthropological fieldwork with information activists and journalists in Egypt, I show that information activists and journalists often had very similar practices and goals, which at times made the boundaries very blurry. Yet I argue that there was a significant distinction between the epistemologies of information activists and journalists. Information activists claimed to acquire knowledge about events from being part of them, whereas journalists claimed to acquire knowledge about events from observing them without taking part. Relatedly, information activists and journalists had significantly different relationships with their audiences.
AB - In this article, I discuss how information activists and journalists in Egypt claimed to acquire knowledge about the world, looking particularly at the period of 2012 and 2013, during which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Mohammed Morsi in turn were leading the country. Taking a point of departure in anthropological fieldwork with information activists and journalists in Egypt, I show that information activists and journalists often had very similar practices and goals, which at times made the boundaries very blurry. Yet I argue that there was a significant distinction between the epistemologies of information activists and journalists. Information activists claimed to acquire knowledge about events from being part of them, whereas journalists claimed to acquire knowledge about events from observing them without taking part. Relatedly, information activists and journalists had significantly different relationships with their audiences.
U2 - 10.1080/17512786.2015.1133250
DO - 10.1080/17512786.2015.1133250
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 48
EP - 61
JO - Journalism Practice
JF - Journalism Practice
SN - 1751-2786
IS - 1
ER -
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