How journalists can capitalize on anti-journalistic hate

The study “Haters as Anti-Fans? Accruing Capital through Audiences Who Hate Journalists” by Jane Yeahin Pyo from University of Illinois interviewed 40 South Korean journalists who had experienced harassment and hateful expressions and how they capitalized on this hate. Drawing from fan scholarship on anti-fans like Gray’s (2003) insight that haters, like fans, amass immense … Continued


Moving past the military-as-alibi strategy in Israel

The study “Strategic Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate” by Ayala Panievsky from University of Cambridge looked at the phenomenon of Israeli journalists invoking their military service in response to online violence and digital hate. The context of the study is the populist attacks on the press in the recent decade, which … Continued