In journalism research conducted in the Global South, power relationships between the researcher and the researched mirror the uneven power structures between the Western journalists and their news subjects or their non-Western colleagues working alongside them. But so far, the figure of the journalism researcher in such contexts has not been problematized to any great extent in journalism scholarship. Moreover, the journalism researcher working in such contexts borrows heavily from the methodological toolkit of ethnography. But while the cultural anthropologists who created and refined ethnographic methodology have long been interrogating the colonial and neocolonial logics that inform ethnographic methods, journalism scholars have yet to significantly engage in such a self-critical project. We take ourselves as the starting points of the self-reflexive critical debate we believe journalism researchers interested in decolonizing journalism studies must have with themselves when it comes to conducting research in spaces of asymmetric power relations within global journalism. Laid out in three first person self-reflexive narratives, our critical questions are prompted by our own geopolitical and embodied presence in Lebanon, Afghanistan, and North Korea. We then discuss the commonalities among the questions that arose from our respective positionalities. Through this grounded, self-reflexive exploration, we aim to position global journalism researchers at the center of critical inquiry.

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我在这里做什么？跨境新闻研究的自我反思


在南半球进行的新闻研究中，研究者和被研究者之间的权力关系反映了西方记者与其新闻对象或与他们一起工作的非西方同事之间不平衡的权力结构。但到目前为止，新闻研究者在这种背景下的形象在新闻学术界还没有受到很大程度的质疑。此外，在这种背景下工作的新闻研究者大量借鉴了民族志的方法论工具包。但是，尽管创造和完善民族志方法论的文化人类学家长期以来一直在质疑为民族志方法提供信息的殖民和新殖民逻辑，但新闻学者尚未大力参与这样的自我批评项目。我们将自己作为自我反省批判性辩论的起点，我们相信，对新闻学去殖民化感兴趣的新闻研究人员在全球新闻业中的不对称权力关系空间中进行研究时，必须与自己进行交流。我们以三个第一人称自我反省的叙述方式阐述了我们的关键问题，这些问题是由我们自己在黎巴嫩、阿富汗和朝鲜的地缘政治和具体存在所引发的。然后，我们讨论因各自立场而产生的问题的共性。通过这种扎根、自我反省的探索，我们的目标是将全球新闻研究人员置于批判性探究的中心。