A1 Journal article (refereed)
Practical, Not Radical : Examining Innovative Learning Culture in a Public Service Media Organization (2022)
Koivula, M., Laaksonen, S.-M., & Villi, M. (2022). Practical, Not Radical : Examining Innovative Learning Culture in a Public Service Media Organization. Journalism Studies, 23(9), 1018-1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2022.2065339
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Koivula, Minna; Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Villi, Mikko
Journal or series: Journalism Studies
ISSN: 1461-670X
eISSN: 1469-9699
Publication year: 2022
Publication date: 26/04/2022
Volume: 23
Issue number: 9
Pages range: 1018-1036
Publisher: Routledge
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2022.2065339
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/80868
Abstract
Recent scholarship has argued for media organizations’ need to radically innovate to ensure their survival in the future. This study deploys the innovative learning culture (ILC) framework to qualitatively study innovation and learning in a legacy public service media organization. While innovation and learning are linked, the learning processes of professional journalists have received only little attention. Through an analysis of a development network operating in a public service media organization, we identify characteristics of ILC in the network and how those characteristics manifest in practice, as well as examine contextual factors that shape ILC. Our findings indicate that innovation and learning processes in the network are shaped by journalistic practice, technology and platforms, and organizational strategy. Importantly, the organization’s technological environment is seen to encourage mimicry in learning and innovation processes, leading to exploitative rather than explorative innovation. The study contributes theoretically to ILC by providing an organizationally situated understanding of the framework that accounts for institutional tendencies in media innovation.
Keywords: media; media sector; journalism; public broadcasting companies; innovativeness; learning organisation; ethnography
Free keywords: innovative learning culture; media innovation; public service media; legacy media; newsroom culture; ethnography
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Reporting Year: 2022
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