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What Is Journalism?: The Art and Politics of a Rupture

What Is Journalism?: The Art and Politics of a Rupture

Hardcover

Writing InstructionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1137399333
ISBN13: 9781137399335
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 5 2016
Pages: 247
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.05 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
This book argues that journalism should treat itself as an academic discipline on a par with history, geography and sociology, and as an art form in its own right. Time, space, social relations and imagination are intrinsic to journalism. Chris Nash takes the major flaws attributed to journalism by its critics--a crude empiricism driven by an un-reflexive 'news sense'; a narrow focus on a de-contextualised, transient present; and a too intimate familiarity with powerful sources--and treats them as methodological challenges. Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Gaye Tuchman, he explores the ways in which rigorous journalism practice can be theorised to meet these challenges.

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