TY - JOUR
T1 - Communicating legitimacy
T2 - How journalists negotiate the emergence of user-generated content in Hong Kong
AU - Yeo, Tien Ee Dominic
N1 - The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
PY - 2016/9
Y1 - 2016/9
N2 - In 2006, a video of a middle- Aged man verbally assaulting a youth in a public bus thrust user-generated content (UGC) and YouTube into the public imagination in Hong Kong. Using the concept of legitimacy from institutional theory to qualitatively analyze newspaper commentaries about the incident, this study connects journalists' narratives to the diffusion of UGC by showing how they inadvertently promote cultural support and normative acceptance of this new media category as a consequence of efforts at paradigm-repair and boundary maintenance. Those narratives construe UGC as a legitimate coin-of-exchange: something relevant, familiar, interesting, and appropriate to engage with.
AB - In 2006, a video of a middle- Aged man verbally assaulting a youth in a public bus thrust user-generated content (UGC) and YouTube into the public imagination in Hong Kong. Using the concept of legitimacy from institutional theory to qualitatively analyze newspaper commentaries about the incident, this study connects journalists' narratives to the diffusion of UGC by showing how they inadvertently promote cultural support and normative acceptance of this new media category as a consequence of efforts at paradigm-repair and boundary maintenance. Those narratives construe UGC as a legitimate coin-of-exchange: something relevant, familiar, interesting, and appropriate to engage with.
KW - Diffusion of innovations
KW - Journalism
KW - Legitimacy
KW - New media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84986183062&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1077699016628823
DO - 10.1177/1077699016628823
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84986183062
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 93
SP - 609
EP - 626
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -