@article {25355, title = {Dynamics of (dis)trust between the news media and their audience: The case of the April 2019 Israeli exit polls}, journal = {Journalism}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This paper explores the dynamics of (dis)trust among experts, journalists, and audiences through the case study of an inaccurate exit poll aired on a leading Israeli television channel. It combines empirical data from the Israeli April 2019 elections with a conceptual view of exit polls as both sources of information and national rituals to address public discourse on the polls and its underlying suspicions. A multi-method approach yielded a corpus consisting of focus groups with citizens, in-depth semi-structured interviews with journalists, pollsters and experts, and qualitative textual analysis of news reports. Using inductive-qualitative analysis, we identified three types of public narratives, each casting blame for the erroneous exit poll projection on a different type of actor. The statistical and biased-media narratives tally with declining trust in the news media and assume misbehavior by pollsters and news creators respectively. The deception narrative, on the other hand, suggests that right-wing voters systematically sabotaged the exit poll projections. By extending trust beyond journalistic information, this narrative foregrounds the cultural meaning of election night rituals. Taken together, the narratives found in this study delineate (dis)trust as an interplay of active participants in the creation, reception, and interpretation of news. Our findings thus touch upon key attitudes towards both media and democracy and have implications for further studies on collective rituals and information evaluations in an era of eroding trust.}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884920978105}, author = {Tali Aharoni and Tenenboim Weinblatt, Keren and Baden, Christian and Maximilian Overbeck} } @article {24669, title = {Speaking across communication subfields}, journal = {Journal of Communication}, volume = {70}, number = {3}, year = {2020}, pages = {303-309}, url = {https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/70/3/303/5855539}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Lee, C. J.} } @inbook {24661, title = {Journalism and Memory}, booktitle = {Handbook of Journalism Studies, Second Edition }, year = {2020}, pages = {420-434}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/The-Handbook-of-Journalism-Studies-2nd-Edition/Wahl-Jorgensen-Hanitzsch/p/book/9781138052895}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Neiger, Motti}, editor = {Karin Wahl- Jorgensen and Hanitzsch, Thomas} } @article {mitchelstein2020incidentality, title = {Incidentality on a continuum: A comparative conceptualization of incidental news consumption}, journal = {Journalism}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Sage Publications Sage UK: London, England}, author = {Eugenia Mitchelstein and Boczkowski, Pablo J and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Hayashi, Kaori and Villi, Mikko and Neta Kligler-Vilenchik} } @article {fischhendler2019peace, title = {The peace dividend as an intangible benefit in mega-project justification: A comparative content analysis of the Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal}, journal = {Geoforum}, volume = {101}, year = {2019}, pages = {141{\textendash}149}, publisher = {Pergamon}, abstract = {Large infrastructure schemes have become part of our landscape. Their controversial nature often requires elaborate justifications including the use of intangible benefits. One intangible benefit that has increasingly been raised in support of mega-projects is the peace dividend. Yet, to date, few studies have systematically addressed the following questions: to what extent, by whom, and in what ways is the peace dividend used as a strategic tool when it comes to justifying contested mega-projects? This article examines the use of different types of arguments in mega-project justification, with a focus on the peace dividend as a political intangible benefit. Through a comparative content analysis of coverage of the Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal project in Israeli and Jordanian news media, we illustrate how the peace dividend is employed as a framing device by both project supporters and opponents and how it is positioned in relation to other types of benefits and costs. We found that the marketing of contested mega-projects to public and political constituencies entails a variety of justifications, reflected in the various framing modes used to influence public opinion in both Israel and Jordan. The nature and intensity of these justifications are sensitive to the media environment and the degree of economic development. Our findings indicate that the peace dividend as a line of defense for the project is the most controversial of all other justification domains.}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718519300259}, author = {Fischhendler, Itay and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @inbook {24175, title = {Dimensions, Speakers, and Targets: Basic Patterns in European Media Reporting on Populism}, booktitle = {Communicating Populism}, year = {2019}, pages = {71-101}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, author = {Blassnig, Sina and Rodi, Patricia and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Adamczewska, Kinga and Raycheva, Lilia and Engesser, Sven and Esser, Frank} } @article {24167, title = {Unpacking Journalists\’ (Dis)Trust: Expressions of Suspicion in the Narratives of Journalists Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict}, journal = {The International Journal of Press/Politics}, volume = {24}, number = {4}, year = {2019}, pages = {426{\textendash}443}, abstract = {Despite growing attention to notions of (dis)trust in both journalism studies and conflict studies, the role of suspicion and distrust in the dynamics of conflict coverage has not yet been investigated. This paper explores the various aspects of suspicion in the perceptions of journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drawing on twenty in-depth interviews with journalists and an interdisciplinary approach to the conceptualization of suspicion and (dis)trust. An inductive-qualitative analysis of journalists{\textquoteright} narratives identified three main aspects: suspicion of information sources, suspicion of peer journalists, and awareness of being under suspicion. The study demonstrates that through all stages of news production, journalists operate within a perpetual context of suspicion despite being required to generate trust. This dilemma culminates in hostile environments, where journalists must trust their sources in order to ensure their physical security yet are professionally required to epistemically suspect the information delivered by these same sources. Taken together, the manifestations of suspicion identified in this study provide an analytical framework for understanding (dis)trust within journalism and for further studying the processes through which these manifestations can contribute to public trust in both the media and conflict parties.}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161219841902}, author = {Tali Aharoni and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {24176, title = {2 Not So Bad News? Investigating Journalism\’s Contribution to What Is Bad, and Good, in News on Violent Conflict}, journal = {Media in War and Armed Conflict: Dynamics of Conflict News Production and Dissemination}, year = {2018}, publisher = {Routledge}, isbn = {1351685392}, author = {Baden, Christian and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {23117, title = {Gendered communication styles in the news: An algorithmic comparative study of conflict coverage}, journal = {Communication Research}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Over the past few decades, numerous studies have examined the question of whether women and men tend to use different communicative styles, strategies, and practices. In this study, we employed a high-resolution algorithmic approach to examine the role of gender in structuring conflict news discourse, focusing on a comparison between the texts produced by foreign and domestic women and men journalists in their coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Extracting recurrent semantic patterns from over 80,000 texts, we show that women and men journalists tend to interpret journalistic professionalism in slightly different ways: While women emphasize precision and professional distance, men focus more on certitude and providing orientation. Moreover, women journalists tend to give more centrality to various groups of people in their coverage. We discuss these findings in the context of scholarship on gender and language use, journalism, and conflict.}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0093650218815383}, author = {Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. and Baden, C.} } @article {nave2018talking, title = {Talking It Personally: Features of Successful Political Posts on Facebook}, journal = {Social Media+ Society}, year = {2018}, abstract = {While the centrality of Facebook as a political arena has been widely acknowledged, only scant attention has been given to what makes some political posts more successful than others. Addressing this gap, we analyzed a corpus of political posts written by diverse political actors in Israel. We explored, in particular, two main groups of factors that have been associated with major attributes of Facebook usage: content engagement and self-presentation. The analysis yielded a model of six features that promote the success of a political post: implied emotions, humor, first person, self-exposure, personal stance, and anger-evoking cues. We also identified differences in successful posts written by right-wing and left-wing actors; while humor was found to be a significant predictor of success only in left-wing posts, references to an out-group are associated with success only in right-wing ones. Overall, the findings showed that attributes of self-presentation are strongly linked to the success of political posts.}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305118784771}, author = {Nave, Nir Noon and Shifman, Limor and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {hameleers2018start, title = {Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries}, journal = {The International Journal of Press/Politics}, volume = {23}, number = {4}, year = {2018}, pages = {517{\textendash}538}, abstract = {Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research has neglected the differential effects of populist communication on the Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, previous research mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper draws on a unique, extensive, and comparative experiment in sixteen European countries (N\ = 15,412) to test the effects of populist communication on political engagement. The findings show that anti-elitist populism has the strongest mobilizing effects, and anti-immigrant messages have the strongest demobilizing effects. Moreover, national conditions such as the level of unemployment and the electoral success of the populist Left and Right condition the impact of populist communication. These findings provide important insights into the persuasiveness of populist messages spread throughout the European continent.}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218786786}, author = {Hameleers, Michael and Bos, Linda and Fawzi, Nayla and Reinemann, Carsten and Andreadis, Ioannis and Corbu, Nicoleta and Schemer, Christian and Schulz, Anne and Shaefer, Tamir and Aalberg, Toril and others} } @inbook {21586, title = {Media projections and Trump\&$\#$39;s election: A self-defeating prophecy?}, booktitle = {Trump and the Media}, year = {2018}, pages = {111-118}, publisher = {MIT Press}, organization = {MIT Press}, url = {https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/media-projections-polls-election/}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt}, editor = {Pablo J. Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi} } @article {15962, title = {The search for common ground in conflict news research: Comparing the coverage of six current conflicts in domestic and international media over time}, journal = {Media, War \& Conflict}, volume = {11}, number = {1}, year = {2018}, pages = {22-45}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635217702071}, author = {Baden, Christian and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {15961, title = {Temporal affordances in the news}, journal = {Journalism}, volume = {19}, number = {1}, year = {2018}, pages = {37-55}, abstract = {\ \ }, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464884916689152}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Neiger, Motti} } @article {11208, title = {Journalistic transformation: How source texts are turned into news stories}, journal = {Journalism}, volume = {19}, number = {4}, year = {2018}, pages = {481-499}, abstract = {In the scholarly debate, ideals of original reporting are commonly contrasted against the churnalistic reproduction of source content. However, most news making lies between these poles: Journalists rely on but transform the available source material, renegotiating its original meaning. In this article, we define journalistic transformation as those interventions journalists make in their use of third-party textual material in the pursuit of crafting a news story. Journalists (1) select contents from available source texts, (2) position these contents, (3) augment them with further information, and (4) arrange all to craft characteristic news narratives. To investigate journalistic transformation practices, we compare source materials used in the news (e.g. press releases, speeches) to the resulting Israeli, Palestinian, and international coverage of the abduction and murder of four youths in summer 2014. We identify five kinds of journalistic transformation {\textendash} evaluative, political, cultural, emotive, and professional {\textendash} each of which actualizes a different journalistic function and contributes to rendering the news relevant to the respective audiences in distinct ways.}, url = {http://jou.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/09/03/1464884916667873.abstract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Baden, Christian} } @article {7704, title = {Viewpoint, Testimony, Action: How journalists reposition source frames within news frames}, journal = {Journalism Studies}, volume = {19}, number = {1}, year = {2018}, pages = {143-161}, abstract = {In the production of news, the frames presented by selected sources play a critical role. However, to create coherent, authoritative, and relevant news stories from the selected input, journalists need to actively transform the available material and fit it within a journalistic news frame. In our study, we investigate how Israeli, Palestinian, and foreign (US, UK, German) newspapers made use of highly salient source statements in their coverage of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli and one Palestinian teenager in summer 2014. Performing a qualitative analysis, we identify three characteristic ways in which journalists reposition selected sources{\textquoteright} frames within their coverage: journalists can rely on selected source frames to present specific, subjective viewpoints; they can present multiple source frames as testimonies about newsworthy events; and they can interpret them as communicative actions in sources{\textquoteright} struggle for recognition in the public arena. Each strategy contributes to the construction of a different, broad class of news frames, reflecting different journalistic styles and norms. We discuss implications for the study of news frames and the different roles of political sources within the news.}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461670X.2016.1161495}, author = {Baden, Christian and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {11209, title = {Convergent news? A longitudinal study of similarity and dissimilarity in the domestic and global coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict}, journal = {Journal of Communication}, volume = {67}, number = {1}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {1-25}, abstract = {News coverage of the same events is simultaneously driven by homogenizing and heterogenizing influences. In this paper, we assess whether and when conflict news in different media become more similar or dissimilar by analyzing the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 13 leading Israeli, Palestinian, and international media over almost 10 years. We distinguish between drivers of enduring similarity, gradual convergence and temporary (dis-)alignments in the news, and relate them to the detected concept association patterns in over 200,000 news texts. We find a slow, context-dependent convergence trend in the news, and temporary alignments and dis-alignments in interpretation in response to major conflict events. Discussing the underlying, interacting influences, the study highlights implications for investigating current transformations in global journalism.}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12272/abstract}, author = {Baden, Christian and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @inbook {11211, title = {Israel: Right-wing populism and beyond}, booktitle = {Populist political communication in Europe}, year = {2016}, pages = {217{\textendash}230}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, url = {http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/book/10.4324/9781315623016}, author = {Weiss Yaniv, Naama and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt}, editor = {Aalberg, Toril and Esser, Frank and Reinemann, Carsten and Str{\"o}mb{\"a}ck, Jesper and de Vreese, C.} } @article {11210, title = {Politically relevant intimacy: A conceptual and empirical investigation}, journal = {International Journal of Communication}, volume = {10}, year = {2016}, pages = {5186-5205}, abstract = {The trends of media personalization and intimization, alongside the growing recognition of the intricate relationship between the private and public spheres, raise complex questions about the ways in which politicians{\textquoteright} private lives are linked to the political realm. This article develops the term\ politically relevant intimacy,\ referring to texts in which matters of the public sphere are being tied to the discourse surrounding politicians{\textquoteright} personal lives. We identify two major types of political relevance{\textemdash}issue based and conduct based{\textemdash}and apply this framework to a comparative analysis of mediated manifestations of politicians{\textquoteright} intimate lives in Israel and the United States. Differences in level and type of politically relevant intimacy are found between news coverage and Facebook posts, as well as between the two countries. No significant differences are found between female and male politicians. We discuss implications for future research and for the citizenry in democracies. }, url = {http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/5830/1819}, author = {Weiss Yaniv, Naama and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {5885, title = {Understanding journalism through a nuanced deconstruction of temporal layers in news narratives}, journal = {Journal of Communication }, volume = {66}, number = {1}, year = {2016}, pages = {139-160}, abstract = {This article proposes a nuanced analysis of the temporal spectrum in news narratives, beyond the three conventional temporal orientations (past-present-future), thus affording a more complex understanding of journalism and its varied storytelling patterns. Combining qualitative and quantitative content analysis of print and online news items in the United States and Israel, this framework is used to evaluate and compare different journalistic cultures and media technologies in relation to public time. Based on hierarchical cluster analysis, the article offers a definition for {\textquotedblleft}news{\textquotedblright} which associates between 5 clusters of temporal layers and different journalistic roles: updating (present and immediate past/future), reporting (recent past), contextualization and ritualistic functions (midrange to distant past), analysis (near future), and projection (far/conjectured future).}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12202/abstract}, author = {Neiger, Motti and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {5838, title = {Beyond peace journalism: Reclassifying conflict narratives in the Israeli news media}, journal = {Journal of Peace Research }, volume = {53}, number = {2}, year = {2016}, pages = {151-165}, abstract = {This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing media representations of conflict actors and events, addresses some of the weaknesses of existing classification schemes, focusing in particular on the dualistic approach of the peace journalism model. Using quantitative content analysis, the proposed framework is then applied to the journalistic coverage in the Israeli media of three Middle-Eastern conflicts: the Israeli{\textendash}Palestinian conflict, the conflict surrounding Iran{\textquoteright}s nuclear program, and the Syrian civil war. The coverage is examined in three leading news outlets {\textendash}\ Haaretz,\ Israel Hayom, and\ Ynet\ {\textendash} over a six-month period. Based on hierarchical cluster analysis, the article identifies four characteristic types of narratives in the examined coverage. These include two journalistic narratives of violence: one inward-looking, ethnocentric narrative, and one outward-looking narrative focusing on outgroup actors and victims; and two political-diplomatic narratives: one interactional, and one outward-looking. In addition to highlighting different constellations of points of view and conflict measures in news stories, the identified clusters also challenge several assumptions underlying existing models, such as the postulated alignment between elite/official actors and violence frames.}, url = {http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/12/10/0022343315609091.abstract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Hanitzsch, Thomas and Nagar, Rotem} } @inbook {5886, title = {Collective Memory}, booktitle = {The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Wiley Blackwell}, organization = {Wiley Blackwell}, abstract = {Collective memory is a current interpretation of the past that members of a group recognize as commonly shared. The study of collective memory has developed in fields as diverse as sociology, anthropology, social psychology, history, cultural studies, and communication. Collective memory concerns a group{\textquoteright}s recollections of the past, construed through the perspective of the present, and interpreted to serve present purposes. It emerges from active constructions of the past, typically achieved through the interplay of a wide range of actors. To become manifested as a shared narrative, resulting constructions must be widely disseminated and appropriated by individuals in a group to ensure mutual awareness. As a consequence, collective memory exists in the shared and private imagination of people, and is represented in the texts, practices, and artifacts of a group. The construction, dissemination, appropriation, and discursive mobilization of collective memory play significant roles in political processes.}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118541555.wbiepc138/abstract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Baden, Christian}, editor = {Mazzoleni, Gianpietro} } @article {5884, title = {Print is future, online is past: Cross-media analysis of temporal orientations in the news}, journal = {Communication Research }, volume = {42}, number = {8}, year = {2015}, pages = {1047-1067}, abstract = {This article examines the representation of past, present, and future in print and online news, while establishing a link between the temporal orientation of news stories and the constraints of the news cycle. Based on a content analysis of top news stories in the Israeli media, the study shows that a future temporal orientation is more prevalent in print media, which assume the role of projecting upcoming events, analyzing potential outcomes, and shaping collective expectations. In contrast, online news tends to assume the more commonly recognized journalistic role of informing the public on recent-past events. The discussion introduces the notion of {\textquotedblleft}temporal affordances,{\textquotedblright} referring to the temporal constraints and possibilities of media technologies, which in turn can lead to distinctive content characteristics. These affordances, which connect symbolic and material dimensions, contribute to the shaping and reshaping of the functions served by divergent communication outlets in changing media landscapes.}, url = {http://crx.sagepub.com/content/42/8/1047}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Neiger, Motti} } @article {5891, title = {The construction of participation in news websites: A five-dimensional model}, journal = {Journalism Studies}, volume = {15}, number = {5}, year = {2014}, pages = {619-631}, abstract = {Audience participation has become a salient component of contemporary digital news environments, challenging traditional boundaries between readers and journalists. In this paper, we present an analytical framework for the evaluation of participation features in news websites, consisting of five axes: Chronology{\textemdash}the stage of news production; Visibility{\textemdash}transparency and prominence; Agency{\textemdash}users{\textquoteright} and editors{\textquoteright} level of activity; Integration{\textemdash}segregation versus embeddedness of participatory features; and Share-ability{\textemdash}inner, public and social circles of activity. This framework was developed in a cross-cultural study based on a grounded theory approach. We examined participation features in 15 prominent news websites in the United Kingdom, the United States and Israel, and conducted a cross-national and cross-organizational analysis. Other than the use of advanced social plugins, no significant cross-national differences were found in the implementation of participatory features. However, the differences discovered between news organizations require further investigation into the factors shaping the selection and construction of news-based participatory features.}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2014.895527}, author = {Netzer, Yacov and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt and Shifman, Limor} } @book {5832, title = {Journalism and Memory}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan }, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan }, url = {http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137263926}, editor = {Barbie Zelizer and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {5834, title = {Producing protest news: An inquiry into journalists{\textquoteright} narratives}, journal = {International Journal of Press/Politics}, volume = {19}, number = {4}, year = {2014}, pages = {410-429}, abstract = {This article examines journalists{\textquoteright} narratives of the constellations of factors that shaped the coverage of the 2011{\textendash}2012 social protest in Israel, and how journalists used the protest to negotiate their roles, practices, and values against the backdrop of their own professional and economic struggles. Based on in-depth interviews with reporters and editors who were involved in the coverage of the protest movement, this article analyzes journalists{\textquoteright} interpretations and negotiations of the various influences on their work during the two major waves of the protest. An analysis of patterns of collision and concurrence between individual, organizational, and professional domains of influence in journalists{\textquoteright} narratives shows that while the norm of objectivity remains a key site of tension in relation to other factors, considerations of newsworthiness are constructed as complementing and justifying all other types of influence. An examination of diachronic patterns suggests that journalists{\textquoteright} individual conditions and positions play a greater role in journalists{\textquoteright} narratives in the first stage of the protest, giving way to professional values and organizational economic considerations in later stages. Although these findings further complicate the protest paradigm, they also show a dominant pattern of {\textquotedblleft}paradigm repair{\textquotedblright} at the level of both journalists{\textquoteright} professional ideology and protest coverage.}, url = {http://hij.sagepub.com/content/19/4/410.abstract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {5914, title = {Bridging collective memories and public agendas: Toward a theory of mediated prospective memory}, journal = {Communication Theory}, volume = {23}, number = {2}, year = {2013}, pages = {91-111}, abstract = {While memory can be both retrospective and prospective, referring to either what happened or what needs to be done, scholarship on media and collective memory has focused on retrospective memories. Shifting the focus to the news media as agents of prospective memory, this article develops the notion of mediated prospective memory. This new construct, which encompasses the various media practices by which collective prospective-memory tasks are shaped and negotiated, is intended to shed light on one facet of the complex relationships between past, present, and future in news discourse; create a much needed bridge between the theoretical frameworks of agenda setting and collective memory; and provide one possible answer to the question of what is unique about journalism{\textquoteright}s memory work.}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/comt.12006/abstract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {5916, title = {The management of visibility: Media coverage of kidnapping and captivity cases around the world}, journal = {Media, Culture \& Society}, volume = {35}, number = {7}, year = {2013}, pages = {791-808}, abstract = {This article examines the journalistic practices associated with the management of visibility of kidnapping and captivity stories, based on a comparative study of the media coverage of seven cases of Colombian, French, Israeli, and US citizens who were taken captive in the first decade of the 21st century. Differences in the general level of visibility given to these stories are identified and explained, followed by an analysis of three patterns of high visibility management across time, termed {\textquoteleft}sustained visibility{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}delayed visibility{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}cyclical visibility{\textquoteright}. Emerging from the analysis is the complex interplay between hyper-visibility and invisibility in journalistic practices, as well as the notion of {\textquotedblleft}elastic newsworthiness{\textquotedblright}, according to which news criteria are not only shaping patterns of visibility but are also being shaped by them.}, url = {http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/35/7/791.abstract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {5915, title = {The path to political substance: Exploring the mediated discourse surrounding controversial media texts}, journal = {Political Communication}, volume = {30}, number = {4}, year = {2013}, pages = {582-601}, abstract = {This article proceeds from the assumption that entertainment texts{\textemdash}particularly controversial ones{\textemdash}function in a broad intertextual field and that their political significance does not lie solely in their value as stand-alone texts, or in their direct influence on political knowledge, attitudes, opinions, and behaviors, but in their ability to instigate politically relevant discussions in other media venues. Focusing on the mediated discourse surrounding two controversial U.S. docudramas,\ The Reagans\ and\ The Path to 9/11, this study examines the political qualities of the public discourse surrounding these docudramas in the U.S. news media and investigates which factors were significant predictors of political substance in this discourse. Based on a distinction between {\textquotedblleft}issue substance{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}media substance{\textquotedblright} as the two major types of political substance that emerge in the discourse surrounding controversial texts, the analysis demonstrates how these types of political substance varied across the two docudramas and across various dimensions of the discourse, among them the time in which the discussion took place. The analytical framework presented in this article is offered as a platform for future examinations of the contribution of media-centered political scandals to public discourse, the conditions under which entertainment texts spur substantive political discussions, and the complex interactions between journalism, entertainment, and politics in contemporary media environments.}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.2012.737436}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {5970, title = {Mediated negotiations: A case study of a transcultural exchange between Lebanon and Israel}, journal = {Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies}, volume = {8}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, pages = {165-185}, abstract = {This article examines the strategies and practices by which the Israeli news media negotiated and (re)appropriated a Lebanese documentary that was produced in cooperation with a French company and was purchased and broadcast by an Israeli commercial channel. Using this transnational textual event, the article explores the dynamics, opportunities and pitfalls associated with transcultural exchanges that take place in a conflictual, translocal context, and the ways in which such exchanges are shaped by an interplay of material-institutional and discursive-symbolic dimensions. The article also provides a multi-layered framework for analyzing the broadcasting and journalistic practices surrounding such textual events, and establishes the relationship between appropriation and witnessing strategies. I show how the Israeli media{\textemdash}driven by commercial interests and applying complex forms of witnessing and appropriation{\textemdash}worked to sustain national myths and suppress the potentially disruptive aspects of the documentary, while at the same time exposing the weaknesses of these myths, as well as the limits of the State{\textquoteright}s power. Emerging from this case study is a complex picture of the multifaceted roles played by national news media in a transnational economy, and of the ways in which commercial media interests serve as both hegemonic and disruptive forces within the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict.}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420.2011.566621}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @inbook {5890, title = {Journalism as an agent of prospective memory}, booktitle = {On media memory: Collective memory in a new media age}, year = {2011}, pages = {213-225}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt}, editor = {Neiger, Motti and Meyers, Oren and Zandberg, Eyal} } @inbook {tenenboim2009rethinking, title = {Rethinking truth through truthiness}, booktitle = {The Changing Faces of Journalism}, year = {2009}, pages = {111{\textendash}113}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @inbook {6275, title = {News as Narrative}, booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Journalism}, year = {2009}, publisher = {Sage}, organization = {Sage}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt}, editor = {C. H. Sterling} } @article {6215, title = {Jester, fake journalist, or the new Walter Lippmann? Recognition processes of Jon Stewart by the U.S. journalistic community}, journal = {International Journal of Communication}, volume = {3}, year = {2009}, pages = {416-439}, abstract = {How does the journalistic community negotiate its identity, boundaries, and authority in relation to individuals and cultural forms that challenge the definitions of who is a journalist and what constitutes journalism? And how does it do so against the background of a growing academic validation of these alternative news venues? This study focuses on the figure of Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central{\textquoteright}s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and on the stages and strategies by which Stewart was embedded into mainstream journalistic discourse, and in which journalists negotiated Stewart{\textquoteright}s definition, authority, and position vis-{\`a}-vis the U.S. journalistic community. By examining the journalistic discourse over a period of nine years and adopting a cultural, inter-textual, process-oriented approach, the paper seeks to go beyond the framework of {\textquotedblleft}paradigm repair,{\textquotedblright} attempting to account for journalism{\textquoteright}s changing identity and boundaries, while paying particular attention to the ways in which those boundaries are shaped by a complex interplay among different players within, on, and outside the margins of the journalistic community. The paper also suggests that Stewart{\textquoteright}s relatively successful co-optation was due to a fit between the normative and epistemological assumptions of three central players {\textemdash} the journalistic community, political communication scholars, and Stewart himself.}, url = {http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/353/288}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {6214, title = {"Where is Jack Bauer when you need him? The uses of television drama in mediated political discourse}, journal = {Political Communication}, volume = {26}, number = {4}, year = {2009}, pages = {367-387}, abstract = {This article explores the myriad uses of television drama in mediated political discourse using the case study of\ 24, Fox{\textquoteright}s counterterrorism drama. It examines references to\ 24\ in articles and columns of nine major daily newspapers, magazines, and political Web sites from 2001 to 2007 and demonstrates how the show was invoked to support and express different political opinions, how political identity and media preferences were reconciled, and how different categories of use interacted with different political allegiances, as well as different assumptions about the ontological and epistemological status of the show. The study shows that while, at one level, fictional events and characters can function in political discourse in similar ways to nonfictional people and events, the {\textquotedblleft}ontological openness{\textquotedblright} of politically relevant fictional texts serves as a resource for political discourse that is not readily available through nonfiction media texts. Finally, this article is an attempt to revisit and develop the concept of inter-textuality as a way to account for the complex interactions within the contemporary media environment, analyze media-related practices beyond direct viewing experiences, and bridge text-centered and audience-centered approaches to communication studies. Within this framework, journalists and political commentators are viewed as both mediators of other media texts for their audiences and as audiences in their own right who use these popular texts to negotiate and express their own identities and ideologies.}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584600903296960}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {6219, title = {Fighting for the story{\textquoteright}s life: Non-closure in journalistic narrative}, journal = {Journalism}, volume = {9}, number = {1}, year = {2008}, pages = {31-51}, abstract = {This article develops the concept of non-closure in sustained news stories, based on the case study of Ron Arad, an Israeli soldier who was taken captive in 1986 and whose story still continues to produce headlines in the Israeli press. Coverage of the Arad case was examined in the three major Israeli daily newspapers for a period of 17 years, and the textual mechanisms through which the story has been kept alive were identified. The article offers an analysis of three central non-closure strategies: maintaining suspense, thickening the plot, and keeping the protagonist alive. It is suggested that these strategies enhance readers{\textquoteright} involvement with the journalistic texts and function as a bridge between the ritual and information transmission functions of news. Non-closure is thus conceptualized as a force that operates alongside the well-studied forces of closure and renders individual news pieces as episodes in a serial narrative rather than self-contained narrative units.}, url = {http://jou.sagepub.com/content/9/1/31.abstract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {6218, title = {"We will get through this together": Journalism, trauma, and the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip}, journal = {Media, Culture \& Society}, volume = {30}, number = {4}, year = {2008}, pages = {495-513}, url = {http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/30/4/495.extract}, author = {Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} } @article {6217, title = {Discursive legitimation of a controversial technology: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel and the Internet}, journal = {The Communication Review}, volume = {10}, number = {1}, year = {2007}, pages = {29-56}, abstract = {The introduction of the internet to ultra-Orthodox Jewish society has presented an acute dilemma. While seen as a potential carrier of secular values and officially banned, the internet also presents significant socio-economic opportunities for a community in which women are often the sole providers. This research focuses on the discursive strategies ultra-Orthodox women internet users employ to legitimate their use of this controversial technology. A glaring disparity was observed between these women{\textquoteright}s actual, subversive technology-related practices and the rhetorical construction of the same practices, which attempted to portray them as congruent with community values. We suggest that when investigating the domestication of new technologies, examining technology-related discourse may be no less important than the more common to date focus on practice.}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10714420601168467?journalCode=gcrv20}, author = {Livio, Oren and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt} }