Diana Bossio

Diana Bossio

Associate Professor, Media and Communication at Swinburne University

social media online cultures professional identity disconnection practices

Dr Bossio's research focuses on the intersections between individual, organisational and institutional practices for journalists' safety and wellbeing within specific online cultures. Her research has explored 1) individual journalistic practices for connection and disconnection from social media labour, 2) the impacts of organisational safety practices, including social media policies on newsrooms and journalists and 3) journalism's changing professional ideologies in social media spaces. She uses primarily in-depth qualitative methods, especially interview and discourse and content analysis, to understand the intersections between journalists’ professional ideologies, organisational practices and professional and personal well-being in online environments. Dr Bossio is the author of two research monographs in this area including: The Paradox of Connection: How Digital Media Are Transforming Journalistic Labor (Illinois University Press, 2024), Journalism and Social Media: Practitioners, Organisations, Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Definition of journalists' safety

I define journalists' safety as centering methods of engaging, assuring and continually evaluating safety and wellbeing in the profession, within individual practice, organizational editorial strategy and newsroom resourcing, and within professional communities of practice.