I've created a few words over the years, with mixed success. A while back, I coined 'voyeurnalism'.
It's a pretty obvious term to invent, and I blithely assumed that someone else had already done so; but I hadn't spent the few minutes needed to check. (I'm a great believer in parallel invention: Newton and Leibnitz and all that. Although a word isn't quite a competitor for a calculus). Re-using the word in another document, I checked it. To my astonishment, search-engines seem to find no usage other than in three of my papers. If anyone is aware of, or can locate, any other usages, I'd appreciate it. http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/PandM.html Self-published 14 October 2011 Appeared in a journal June 2012 'Journalism' is used in this paper to refer to the preparation of news, current affairs and documentaries, by means of the discipline of collecting, analysing, cross-checking and presenting information regarding events and issues that are 'in the public interest'. Journalism includes 'opinion', but opinion needs to be clearly distinguished as such. The term and the definition are conventional 'Advertorialism' is used in this paper to refer to a form of corrupted or debased journalism, in which the analysis and cross-checking of information is compromised. It involves essentially re-publishing government propaganda and business propaganda as provided by those organisations' public relations and marketing apparatus. This term may not yet be mainstream, but is consistent with contemporary thinking 'Voyeurnalism' is used in this paper to refer to a different form of corrupted or debased journalism, in which information regarding events and issues is presented that is not 'in the public interest', but rather is 'what the public is interested in', or 'what the public may be able to be made to be interested in'. Some voyeurnalism departs further from journalism by presenting information in a constructively misleading manner or inventing pseudo-information along the lines of 'fantasy news'. This category of media was referred to as 'yellow press' and 'yellow journalism' in the USA a century ago, and the term 'sensationalist media' is used in the UK. The word 'voyeurnalism' is a concoction by this author, to deal with the absence of an established term -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
