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Sue Robinson explores how journalists of different identities, especially racial, enact trusting relationships with their audiences. Drawing from case studies, community-work, interviews, and focus groups, she documents an emergent ecosystem around trust building and engagement journalism that represents the first major paradigm shift of the press's core values in more than a century. Developing a new theory of trust building, Robinson calls for journalists to grapple actively with their own identities - especially the privileges, biases, and marginalization attached to them - and those of their communities, resulting in a more intentional and effective moral voice focused on justice and equity through the news practice of an ethic of care.

Against conventional wisdom, pervasive black-white disparities pair with vitriolic public conversation in politically progressive communities throughout America. Networked News, Racial Divides examines obstacles to public dialogues about racial inequality and opportunities for better discourse in mid-sized, liberal cities. The book narrates the challenges faced when talking about race through a series of stories about each community struggling with K-12 education achievement gaps. Media expert Sue Robinson applies Bourdieusian field theory to understand media ecologies and analyze whose voices get heard and whose get left out. She explores how privilege shapes discourse and how identity politics can interfere with deliberation. Drawing on network analysis of community dialogues, interviews with journalists, politicians, activists, and citizens and deep case study of five cities, this reflexive and occasionally narrative book chronicles the institutional, cultural and other problematic realities to amplifying voices of all people while also recommending strategies to move forward and build trust

Applying racial formation theory, this research argues that when the political progressive ideology becomes the status quo, it loses its focus on "reform" and "progress" toward equity. Critical discourse analysis of media texts reveals how the ideology evolved into a "racial project" perpetuating institutional racism. When a moment of racial reckoning is presented to challenge the hegemonic politics in this case study, politicians, journalists, and engaged citizens employ discursive strategies to uncover privileges, call out (dis)trusting relationships, and reclaim the dominant narrative around what reform and progress look like. This work demonstrates how political communication unfolds when a progressively maintained infrastructure is revealed to be a system of oppression and where digital platforms allow for a substantial challenge.

This research used interviews with producers and sources in news about racial disparities to understand obstacles in covering issues involving race. These data along with a Deweyan framework informed the creation of a service-learning class called "Journalism for Racial Justice: Amplifying Voices in Local Communities" aimed at better aligning the journalism profession with more inclusive democracy. Students explored how their privileges affected reporting, redefined roles of "source" as relational in collaborative work, and worked to build trust with wary citizens to knit communities together in conversation. It promotes a relational journalism, positioning reporters as within community as opposed to apart.

Using the anniversary coverage of Hurricane Katrina, this textual analysis explores how reporters and citizen journalists considered themselves and each other in their different versions of a specific news narrative. This research indicates that online citizen writers undermined the mainstream news story by offering an often contrary version of Hurricane Katrina. Their collective memory focused on personal experience, asserting their right to tell this societal story. By inserting themselves into the news production process of collective memory formation, these citizens renegotiated their relationships with journalists and with journalism. In some cases, this resulted in complete role reversals. The findings suggest that new patterns for information flow are being created, renovating the existing institutional power structure involving the press and society. The conclusion of this article suggests that theorists evaluate citizen journalism alongside mainstream journalists' work, for they are now part of the same news production process.

The author outlines the beginnings of a 'community project' involving a range of statutory, voluntary and community resources, intended to provide a range of better services to clients, and to contribute to the prevention of crime. She draws attention to the importance of involving volunteers, clients and ex-clients.

Cover -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Key Criminological Research Debates -- Features to Aid Your Learning -- 1 Introduction -- What Is The Criminology and Criminal Justice Companion? -- How to Use This Book -- 2 Studying Criminology -- What Is Criminology? -- What Is Crime? -- Why Study Criminology? -- Studying Criminology -- How Should I Approach My Criminology Course? -- 3 Key Theories and Theorists -- Criminological Theory in Context -- Exploring Theories of Crime -- 4 Criminological Research -- Why Is Research Important in Criminology? -- Researching Crime -- Research Ethics -- Research Design -- Research Methods -- Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Research -- Evaluating Existing Research -- 5 Key and Emerging Issues in Criminology -- Social Aspects in Criminal Justice -- Victims and the Justice System -- Types of Crime -- Emerging Issues -- 6 The Criminal Justice System -- The Function of the Criminal Justice System -- Perspectives on Criminal Justice -- The Criminal Justice System Process -- Sectors Within the Criminal Justice System -- Juvenile Justice -- 7 Careers in Criminology -- Career Pathways -- How Do I Make Myself Marketable and Competitive? -- 8 Key Terms, Concepts and Definitions -- Quick Reference for Terms, Concepts and Definitions -- References -- Index.

Civic participation in news production has been a trend under academic scrutiny for at least two decades. The prevalence of digital communication and the dominance of proprietary platforms are two combining forces that disrupt the established journalistic norms. In this article, we investigate news participation and make three grand statements regarding: 1) the holistic definition of participation, 2) the network structure of participation delineating the power dynamics of different media actors, and 3) the transnational context of participation exhibiting the structural constraints within nation-state sovereignty. It is our argument that news participation as a civic act in the digital, globalized age has not fundamentally democratized the information flow as early optimists predicted. Instead, a group of "information elite" have risen to power due to their access to institutional resources, their advantageous positioning in the media ecology, and their entrenchment in the dominant ideology. Participation on proprietary platforms can be easily co-opted to serve the interest of the new information elite.

Civic participation in news production has been a trend under academic scrutiny for at least two decades. The prevalence of digital communication and the dominance of proprietary platforms are two combining forces that disrupt the established journalistic norms. In this article, we investigate news participation and make three grand statements regarding: 1) the holistic definition of participation, 2) the network structure of participation delineating the power dynamics of different media actors, and 3) the transnational context of participation exhibiting the structural constraints within nation-state sovereignty. It is our argument that news participation as a civic act in the digital, globalized age has not fundamentally democratized the information flow as early optimists predicted. Instead, a group of "information elite" have risen to power due to their access to institutional resources, their advantageous positioning in the media ecology, and their entrenchment in the dominant ideology. Participation on proprietary platforms can be easily co-opted to serve the interest of the new information elite.