新聞社群的專業主義話語: 一種邊界工作的視角

This paper understands the Chinese journalists as an interpretive community and adopts a boundary-work approach to analyzing how the journalistic community defines the appropriate boundaries of professional reporting, journalists, and their conducts. Journalists’ boundary work serves to restructure their cultural and epistemic authority within and without the journalistic community. For the journalistic insiders, boundary work is performed as expulsion of the perceived “deviant” and the “unprofessional”, while for the outsiders, boundary work is performed as protection of autonomy against the new media and the perceived populist online opinion. The paper also argues that the journalistic boundary work has and will become increasingly frequent in the social media era. Further direction of research is suggested as well.