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What Influences European Journalistic Practices: The Macro Level Approach

This article explores patterns and sources of influence on professional practices of European journalists and the way they differ across different media systems, in a multilevel, cross-national comparative research design. The research is more broadly framed within mediatization theory and aims to explore the relationship of increased media logic in journalistic practices (Kammer 2013 ; Kunelius 2014) with specific digital mediascapes. Journalism is known to be culturally specific in historical terms (Chalaby 1996), and cross- country studies show differences in journalistic milieus in different political regimes (Hanitzch 2011). In this article, we posit that journalistic practices are influenced by the structural framework of the media system, as are audience practices (AUTHORS 2015). The institutional framework of media system expands the AUTHORS (2015) model of digital mediascapes, and defines media systems in terms of contemporary multimedia markets, globalization processes, cultural industry framework as well as in relation to the level of institutional inclusiveness. The data on journalistic values and practices are from the surveys conducted in 27 west, central and east European countries included in the 2012-2015 Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS). Cluster analysis produced four clusters of digital media systems. Six dimensions of influences were uncovered by factor analysis. Hierarchical multiple regression confirms the predominant influence of the structural levels of the perceptions of influences on journalism - the mezzo organizational level and the macro level of the digital media system additionally explain the variance of contextual influences on journalistic practices beyond individual differences. The study also opens up new question regarding mediatization of journalism and the mediatized condition.

Journalism ; multilevel research design ; cross—country comparative research ; digital media system ; mediatization

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