Tired, Hungry, and on Deadline: Affect and Emotion in the Practice of Conflict Journalism

Stupart, Richard ORCID: 0000-0002-5936-2730 (2021) Tired, Hungry, and on Deadline: Affect and Emotion in the Practice of Conflict Journalism. JOURNALISM STUDIES, 22 (12). pp. 1574-1589.

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Abstract

The recent “emotional turn” in journalism studies has yet to substantially focus on the role that affect and emotion play in specific practices of journalism. This paper examines the affective/emotional dimensions of journalists coping with exhaustion during a reporting assignment in South Sudan to explore the ways in which the these might meaningfully alter how the practice is performed. I argue that affect/emotion ought not to be understood as simply a form of failure to act rationally, or affective baggage picked up as a result of practice, but as integral to practices of journalism itself. I use the example of exhaustion, its effects on the practices of journalists and their responses to it to point to types of affective/emotional work that journalists undertake in order to both do journalism safely and successfully and to do work which is recognisably “professional” journalism.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Journalism practice, affect, emotion, exhaustion, conflict, South Sudan
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2023 10:11
Last Modified:	05 Jun 2023 10:11
DOI:	10.1080/1461670X.2021.1873819
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3170820