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Rethinking journalism again : societal role and public relevance in a digital age / edited by Chris Peters and Marcel Broersma.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2017Description: xi, 234 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138860858
  • 1138860859
  • 9781138860865
  • 1138860867
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: towards a functional perspective on journalism's role and relevance / Marcel Broersma and Chris Peters -- Pt. 1. Journalism and Its societal role -- Reconstructing journalism's public rationale / Nick Couldry -- Reappraising journalism's normative foundations / John Steel -- Establishing the boundaries of Journalism's Public Mandate / Matt Carlson -- The Disruption in Journalistic expertise / Zvi Reich and Yigal Godler -- New media, search engines and social networking sites as varieties of online gatekeepers / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen -- Is there a 'Postmodern Turn' in journalism? / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen -- Pt. 2. Journalism and its public relevance -- What journalism becomes / Mark Deuze and Tamara Witschge -- The journalist as entrepreneur / Jane B. Singer -- A journalism of care / Kaori Hayashi -- From participation to reciprocity in the journalist-audience relationship / Seth C. Lewis, Avery E. Holton and Mark Coddington -- The gap between the media and the public / Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein -- The rhetorical illusions of news / Chris Peters and Marcel Broersma -- Afterword crisis? what crisis? / Silvio Waisbord -- Afterword revisioning journalism and "The pictures in our heads" / Stuart Allan.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

It's easy to make a rhetorical case for the value of journalism. Because, it is a necessary precondition for democracy; it speaks to the people and for the people; it informs citizens and enables them to make rational decisions; it functions as their watchdog on government and other powers that be.

But does rehashing such familiar rationales bring journalism studies forward? Does it contribute to ongoing discussions surrounding journalism's viability going forth? For all their seeming self-evidence, this book considers what bearing these old platitudes have in the new digital era. It asks whether such hopeful talk really reflects the concrete roles journalism now performs for people in their everyday lives. In essence, it poses questions that strike at the core of the idea of journalism itself. Is there a singular journalism that has one well-defined role in society? Is its public mandate as strong as we think?

The internationally-renowned scholars comprising the collection address these recurring concerns that have long-defined the profession and which journalism faces even more acutely today. By discussing what journalism was, is, and (possibly) will be, this book highlights key contemporary areas of debate and tackles on-going anxieties about its future.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: towards a functional perspective on journalism's role and relevance / Marcel Broersma and Chris Peters -- Pt. 1. Journalism and Its societal role -- Reconstructing journalism's public rationale / Nick Couldry -- Reappraising journalism's normative foundations / John Steel -- Establishing the boundaries of Journalism's Public Mandate / Matt Carlson -- The Disruption in Journalistic expertise / Zvi Reich and Yigal Godler -- New media, search engines and social networking sites as varieties of online gatekeepers / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen -- Is there a 'Postmodern Turn' in journalism? / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen -- Pt. 2. Journalism and its public relevance -- What journalism becomes / Mark Deuze and Tamara Witschge -- The journalist as entrepreneur / Jane B. Singer -- A journalism of care / Kaori Hayashi -- From participation to reciprocity in the journalist-audience relationship / Seth C. Lewis, Avery E. Holton and Mark Coddington -- The gap between the media and the public / Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein -- The rhetorical illusions of news / Chris Peters and Marcel Broersma -- Afterword crisis? what crisis? / Silvio Waisbord -- Afterword revisioning journalism and "The pictures in our heads" / Stuart Allan.

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