The aim of this study was to find out how journalism students at two universities in Sweden, Gothenburg University and Linnaeus University in Kalmar, use the social networking service Twitter. We were primarily interested in whether the students are using Twitter as a journalistic tool, which includes gathering, production and distribution of material. The study focused on journalism students because they soon will enter the working life and therefore can provide an indication of whether Twitter is a part of the future of journalism. We have used theories of mass communication to describe the development in the area and explore how journalism has adapted to this change. The study was conducted in the form of a survey in which the students answered questions about how they use Twitter and what they think about the social networking service. The results show that a large percentage of the journalism students use Twitter as a journalistic tool, but not in a particularly high degree. We noticed, however, that their usage differ from their thoughts and that many see Twitter as a useful tool in journalism.

The purpose of this study was to specify quantitatively the meanings and images of eight branches of journalism as perceived by a selected group of college students majoring in journalism. The problem of this study was to identify the locations of these meanings, using a semantic differential, as points in a three-dimensional semantic space consisting of evaluation, potency, and activity dimensions. The study was also designed to test two hypotheses. Hypothesis One was that there would be a significant difference between the male and female groups in their perception of the same concept about a journalism branch. Hypothesis Two was that there would be a significant difference between two concepts perceived by the members of the same sex group.

This thesis examines how Stockholm-based journalism students perceive journalistic professional identity during their education. The purpose of this thesis is thus to expand the knowledge of how Swedish journalism students give meaning to their future work in an increasingly changeable labor market. To this end, 15 journalism students from the bachelor program in journalism studies at Stockholm University and Södertörn University were interviewed at the beginning of 2023. Using Mark Deuze's theoretical framework of journalism as a professional ideology and Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, specifically about the journalistic field, the thesis reveals that Stockholm-based journalism students support traditional journalistic norms and ideals, such as public service, ethics, objectivity, and immediacy. The students also value traditional forms of capital, such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, at the beginning of their journalistic careers. However, due to technological innovations, the journalistic field has changed, and the journalism students, therefore, perceive the journalist's role as expanded and more digital than it previously has been. To make it as a journalist today, digital capital is therefore a necessity. Furthermore, the journalism students struggle to make sense of the journalistic field and the expectations directed at them as new journalists since there is a tension between these expectations and how the journalistic field is structured. The thesis also reveals that there are inconsistencies in how Stockholm-based journalism students relate to their future work; these inconsistencies demonstrate the conflict that journalists face between the market and professional freedom. The thesis concludes with a discussion about the future of journalism, and how journalism education plays a crucial part in shaping this future.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-04T17:02:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Telma Dias dos Santos.pdf: 1910283 bytes, checksum: 060d2f6805bca93fa5a8ec60407fbf4a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-04T17:02:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Telma Dias dos Santos.pdf: 1910283 bytes, checksum: 060d2f6805bca93fa5a8ec60407fbf4a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / the journalistic communication on television and the viewer have changed and therefore the media companies have demanded more versatility of journalists. As a result, the performance of the speech therapist has been transformed and expanded, as we see the need for it to be present in the formation of the journalist. It was in view of this new reality and demand that intervention research for subjects in vocational training offered. Objective: To evaluate the effect of an intervention proposal focusing on professional communication in television for undergraduate journalism students. Method: The sample consisted of 23 journalism students, 12 women and 11 men, aged between 18 and 21 years. The Speech therapy intervention had eight meetings lasting four hours each more the recording a video with the same news before and after the intervention. The evaluation of the communicative performance of students was carried out by 75 judges viewers with the videos pairs and they chose the best video. This choice was justified by the allocation of features divided into three main points were these: body, speech and interpretation / emotional. Results: The majority (91.3%) of the students showed a better communicative performance in the video after the intervention according to the judges. The parameters related to aspects of emotional / interpretation were those who had more cited characteristics. Those with the highest number were more natural followed by safer, more pleasant and more confident in video after intervention. Regarding the most frequently cited characteristics of speech aspect was found in citation order: articulation, pauses, emphasis and speech rate. The aspects were: body posture, body movement and gestures. Final considerations: the speech therapy program focusing on professional communication in television promoted improvement in communication performance of most journalism students of the sample studied. The aspects that the most mentioned judges to justify the improvement was related to the interpretation / emotional first followed by aspects of speech and body / a comunicação jornalística na televisão e o telespectador mudaram e, consequentemente, as empresas de comunicação têm exigido mais versatilidade dos jornalistas. Em decorrência disso, a atuação do fonoaudiólogo tem se transformado e se ampliado, à medida que se vê a necessidade desse profissional estar presente na formação do jornalista. Foi na perspectiva dessa nova realidade e demanda que essa pesquisa de intervenção para sujeitos em formação profissional se deu. Objetivo: avaliar o efeito de uma proposta de intervenção com foco na comunicação profissional em televisão para alunos de graduação em Jornalismo. Método: a amostra foi composta por 23 estudantes de jornalismo, 12 mulheres e 11 homens, com idades entre 18 e 21 anos. A intervenção fonoaudiológica teve oito encontros com a duração de quatro horas cada e a gravação de um vídeo com a mesma notícia antes e depois da intervenção. A avaliação do desempenho comunicativo dos alunos foi realizada por 75 juízes telespectadores com os pares de vídeos, no qual eles escolheram o vídeo melhor. Essa escolha foi justificada com a atribuição de características divididas em três aspectos principais, foram esses: corpo, fala e emocionais e de interpretação. Resultados: a maioria (91,3%) dos alunos apresentou uma performance comunicativa melhor no vídeo depois da intervenção de acordo com os juízes. Os parâmetros relacionados aos aspectos emocionais e de interpretação foram os que tiveram mais características citadas. Dessas, as com maior número foram mais natural seguido por mais seguro, mais agradável e mais confiante no vídeo, após a intervenção. Em relação às características mais citadas do aspecto fala foi encontrado em ordem de citação: articulação, pausas, ênfase e velocidade de fala. Do aspecto foram: postura corporal, movimento do corpo e gestos. Considerações finais: o programa de intervenção fonoaudiológica com foco na comunicação profissional em televisão promoveu melhora no desempenho comunicativo da maioria dos alunos de Jornalismo da amostra pesquisada. Os aspectos que os juízes mais referiram para justificar a melhora foram os relacionados à interpretação/emocional em primeiro lugar, seguido pelos aspectos da fala e do corpo