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The Virtue Paradigm: A New Framework

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The role of objectivity as a cornerstone of journalistic practice has been challenged by a welcome turn in journalism scholarship towards the study of emotions. Martin’s Virtue Paradigm provides a framework with which to investigate how journalists communicate emotion in their work as well as to appreciate the emotional labour the writer necessarily invests to create a compelling story. The chapter presents the research approaches that inform Martin’s Virtue Paradigm, which include discourse and textual analysis and transportation theory. Martin concludes with an analysis of the potential of scholars’ reconceptualization in the past 50 years of Aristotle’s master virtue of phronesis as a means of deepening our understanding of the function of emotion in long-form.

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Martin, J. (2021). The Virtue Paradigm: A New Framework. In: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62978-6_4

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