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Journalists and objects of journalism relations during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ethnographic study in three Indonesian newsrooms.

Saptorini, E., Jackson, D. and Zhao, X., 2025. Journalists and objects of journalism relations during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ethnographic study in three Indonesian newsrooms. In: Mari, W., O’Reilly, C. and West, E. J., eds. Media Building: Architecture, Design, and the Spatial Politics of Mass Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, 243-266.

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Abstract

This chapter explores how the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced social distancing practices, reshaped the relationship between journalists and objects of journalism, often described as “the material forms of journalism”. As Carole O’Reilly demonstrates in Chapter 2, to date, scholarly attention on the pandemic’s impact has tended to centre on the removal of journalists from the physical newsroom, and their dislocation from the physical environments and objects that have traditionally shaped their professional practice and vocational identity. However, in this unprecedented time, it is important to look at how digital-enabled technology played a role in the news-making process and what the consequences were when journalists left the newsroom and moved to remote environments.

Item Type:Book Section
ISBN:9789819656776
Series Name:Geographies of Media
Group:Faculty of Media, Science and Technology
ID Code:41440
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:26 Mar 2026 12:29
Last Modified:26 Mar 2026 12:29

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