Comparing Risks to Journalism: Media Criticism in the Digital Hate

This study examines digital media criticism—publicly shared evaluations and judgements of journalistic text actors on various platforms—as a risk to journalism. It specifically interrogates how journalists negotiate the diverse nature criticism in spaces comparative context. Through qualitative interviews with practising journalists, paper identifies following four main responses criticism: consolidation (ringfencing discourse); filtering (cleaning up rationalisation (acknowledging or non-responses) counter-discourse (counteracting anti-media discourses). These responses, referred as forms discursive resistance, show that are both defensive against accommodating risks authority, but usually aim reinforce expand discourse spaces.