Aprillirahutuste kajastamise võimalikud psüühilised reaktsioonid ja mõjud ajakirjanikele
Kuupäev
2009
Autorid
Ajakirja pealkiri
Ajakirja ISSN
Köite pealkiri
Kirjastaja
Tartu Ülikool
Abstrakt
Kirjeldus
Journalists who reverbrated April disturbances – its reactions and influence for them
In this bachelor thesis the author has examined the psychological impact of 2007. April
disturbances for journalists. How do journalists themselves rate their psychological impact of
these events and what Editors could be done to reduce the potential negative effects.
Empirical part of work was based on the three semistructured expert interview. Sample
belonged to the three Channel 2 reporters who were sent to the riots to make news stories or
look for pictorial material.
The author uses the empirical results with a theoretical part of the material, which mainly
relied on scientific journal articles found in databases, and school crisis and catastrophe
psychology lecture materials. Theory of knowledge helped to highlight the specific
characteristics of crisisreaction from interviews.
Of the empirical work showed that the journalists appeared 26th April riots shocreactions
recognition. Also, the interviews were read out to an early reactionphase features. They both
are among the first stages of crisisreaction. Journalists themselves, however, did not consider
that this event would have psychological impact on them. They stressed that the emotions
were still self-reliant and not require any external assistance. Journalists found that a
recognition their shared was sufficient, and they did not expected more.
Bachelor's thesis on the basis of this, however, it can be argued that April riots recognition
of the psychological impact of journalists. Crisis reaction knowledge is essential to the
journalists, because then they know how to analyze better the changes taking place in a
familiar or more easily, and the associated obstacles to their work to raise awareness and
overcome. It is also essential to feel the same crisis reactsions then can journalists write more
professional stories of these kind of events.
Also, the editorial point of view, it is important to know that so far such events affect the
emotional status of workers. These effects may be ignoring the employees' mental and
physical health would be put at risk and a longer period of time may lead to loss of valuable
employees. It also could be included in the editorial responsibilities of journalists in a
traumatic events, mostly because the lack of trained journalists. Thus, they may jeopardize
their own health, and may suffer from both news crises as well as the subsequent page, radio,
and televison stories.
Märksõnad
H Social Sciences (General), bakalaureusetööd, meedia, elukutsed, ajakirjanikud, mõjud, psühholoogilised mõjud, rahutused, meeleavaldused, mässud, Eesti