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Subjectivity conditioned by narrative form: A narratological approach to emotion in narrative journalism
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Journalism.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8376-7877
2024 (English)In: Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism, ISSN 1464-8849, E-ISSN 1741-3001Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

In recent years, media researchers have displayed an increased interest in emotion as an element of the content in both news journalism and narrative journalism. These studies lack a theoretical definition of emotion and do not usually specify what characterizes narrative journalism more than it being "not objective" and, consequently, not similar to conventional journalism. In practice, they identify emotion through frames of personalization or explicit expressions of feelings and evaluations. However, narrative journalism integrates implicitly conveyed emotion. To enable a broader understanding of the function of emotion in narrative journalism, this article gives examples of and analyzes how emotion and the related concept subjectivity is used and discussed in two different fields of research: social sciences-influenced journalism studies and literature-influenced studies. The dualistic view on journalism as either subjective or objective is questioned when narrative journalism (also known as reportage or literary journalism) is placed in a professional context, where the genre is based on its own tradition and represents its own form of knowledge, due to its main characteristic: a narrative form. Finally, the article demonstrates how tools drawn from narratology can illuminate diverse storytelling techniques that transmit emotion implicitly rather than explicitly.

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Sage Publications, 2024.
Keywords [en]
Narrative journalism, literary journalism, reportage, emotion, narratology
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Media and Communication Studies General Literature Studies
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Politics, Economy and the Organization of Society
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-54301DOI: 10.1177/14648849241257116ISI: 001235905600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85194925275OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-54301DiVA, id: diva2:1874525
Available from: 2024-06-20 Created: 2024-06-20 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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