Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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The WJEC is the largest international conference for journalism academics and is held every three years. I presented a paper on Seeking Approaches to Address the Emotional Impact on Journalists of Working on Traumatic User Generated Content. Abstract: Regular
viewing of disturbing images can have a detrimental effect on journalists who
process traumatic user-generated content, putting them at risk of vicarious
trauma. They have to manage their own emotional reaction in order to complete
the task, engaging them in emotional labour (Hochschild, 1983). In order to
explore what type of UGC triggers an adverse emotional reaction and its effects
on them video interviews with 20 Storyful journalists were analysed using
emotional labour and vicarious trauma criteria to determine common themes. The
study found the journalists used their professional role to offset the stressful effects of processing horrific images.