Abstract
This chapter is based on findings from a research project that employed Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s systems model of creativity to explore the creative process of print journalists. The research also drew on Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural production model and Donald Schön’s (1983) ideas about tacit knowledge as support theories. Using ethnographic techniques, the researcher investigated the system of print journalism in Australia by observing newsrooms, analysing documents and artefacts pertinent to print journalism, and interviewing journalists, cadet journalists, editors, subeditors and deputy editors. These participants represent members of what Csikszentmihalyi calls the field, the social group responsible for verification of creativity.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Adam, G. S. (1993) Notes Towards a Definition of Journalism: Understanding an Old Craft Form, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, www.poynter.org/media/product/20030123_141216_24094.pdf, date accessed 24 June 2006.
Bird, S. E. and Dardenne, R. W. (1997) ‘Myth, Chronicle and Story: Exploring the Narrative Qualities of News’, in D. A. Berkowitz (ed.) Social Meanings of News: A Text-Reader (California: Sage), pp. 333–50.
Bourdieu, P. (1996) The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, trans. S. Emanuel (Cambridge: Polity Press).
Bourdieu, P. (1998) On Television and Journalism (London: Pluto Press).
Creswell, J. W. (2003) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 2nd edn (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1988) ‘Society, Culture and Person: A Systems View of Creativity’, in R. Sternberg (ed.) The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives (Cambridge University Press), pp. 325–38.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997) Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (New York: HarperCollins).
Ezzy, D. (2002) Qualitative Analysis: Practice and Innovation (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin).
Feldman, D. H., Csikszentmihalyi, M. and Gardner, H. (eds) (1994) Changing the World: A Framework for the Study of Creativity (Westport, CT: Praeger).
Fulton, J. M. (2008) ‘Print Journalism and the Creative Process: Traditional Versus Digital’, paper presented at the Conference on Comparative Journalism Studies 2008 (CJS2008), University of Tasmania, Hobart.
Fulton, J. M. (2011) ‘Making the News: Print Journalism and the Creative Process’, PhD thesis (University of Newcastle, Australia), http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927269.
Giddens, A. (1984) The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Henningham, J. (1989) ‘Why and How Journalists Should be Professionalised’, Australian Journalism Review, 11, 27–32.
Henningham, J. (ed.) (1990) Issues in Australian Journalism (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire).
Hirst, M. and Patching, R. (2005) Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases (Oxford University Press).
Johnson, R. (1993) ‘Editor’s Introduction: Pierre Bourdieu on Art, Literature and Culture’, in P. Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature, ed. R. Johnson (Cambridge: Polity Press), pp. 1–25.
Machin, D. and Niblock, S. (2006) News Production: Theory and Practice (London: Routledge).
McIntyre, P. (2008) ‘The Systems Model of Creativity: Analyzing the Distribution of Power in the Studio’, paper presented at the 4th Art of Record Production International Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, November: published in Journal of the Art of Record Production, 4: Supplement to ARP08, The Peer-Reviewed Proceedings of the 2008 Art of Record Production Conference, www.artofrecordproduction.com/content/view/214/126/.
McManus, J. H. (1994) Market-driven Journalism: Let the Citizen Beware? (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).
McNair, B. (1998) The Sociology of Journalism (London: Arnold).
Preston, P. (2009) Making the News: Journalism and News Cultures in Europe (London: Routledge).
Punch, K. (2005) Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, 2nd edn (London: Sage).
Reese, S. (2007) ‘Journalism Research and the Hierarchy of Influences Model: A Global Perspective’, Brazilian Journalism Research, 3(2), 29–42.
Sawyer, R. K. (2006) Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation (Oxford University Press).
Schön, D. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (New York: Basic Books).
Schultz, I. (2007) ‘The Journalistic Gut Feeling: Journalistic Doxa, News Habitus and Orthodox News Values’, Journalism Practice, 1(2), 190–207, www.ruc.dk/jour/kontakt/ansatte/Interne_/ida/The_Journalistic_Gut_Feeling.pdf, date accessed 6 December 2007.
Shoemaker, P. J. and Reese, S. D. (1996) Mediating the Message: Theories of Influences on Mass Media Content (New York: Longman).
Wolff, J. (1993) The Social Production of Art, 2nd edn (London: Macmillan).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2016 Janet Fulton
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Fulton, J. (2016). Print Journalism and the System of Creativity. In: McIntyre, P., Fulton, J., Paton, E. (eds) The Creative System in Action. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137509468_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137509468_7
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-50945-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-50946-8
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)