journalism in the service of communication

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Barbie Zelizer

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

►► Modernity

►► Rationality

►► Criticism

►► Reason

►► Free Choice

►► Progress

►► Democracy

►► Individualism

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

►►Real world relevance

►►Setting for engagement

►►Patterned and predictable analytical routines

►►Phenomenon combining people, practices, values, structure

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

►►Real world relevance

►►Setting for engagement

►►Patterned and predictable analytical routines

►►Phenomenon combining people, practices, values, structure

►►Connection to certain kind of modernity, involving rationality, progress, freedom of information, democracy, civil society

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism

Technology and Journalism

Culture and Journalism

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism

►► what we have versus what we hope for

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism ►► what we have versus what we hope for

Technology and Journalism

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism ►► what we have versus what we hope for

Technology and Journalism

►► the old and slow versus the new and fast

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism ►► what we have versus what we hope for

Technology and Journalism

►► the old and slow versus the new and fast

Culture and Journalism

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism ►► what we have versus what we hope for

Technology and Journalism

►► the old and slow versus the new and fast

Culture and Journalism

►► the mainstream and mundane versus the odd and outrageous

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

Politics and Journalism ►► what we have versus what we hope for

Technology and Journalism

►► the old and slow versus the new and fast

Culture and Journalism

►► the mainstream and mundane versus the odd and outrageous

= sub-disciplinary nearsightedness

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

►► modifies either/or positions

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

►► modifies either/or positions

►► enhances variance within positions

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

►► modifies either/or positions

►► enhances variance within positions

►►offsets geographic nearsightedness

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

►► modifies either/or positions

►► enhances variance within positions

►►offsets geographic nearsightedness

India

South America

East Africa

former Soviet bloc

Iran

Asia

Journalism in the Service of Communication

How did journalism play in the establishment of communication?

Where did journalism go over time in some of communication’s sub-fields?

How does journalism today complicate assumptions about communication?

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

►► modifies conceptual and geographic foundationalism

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

►► modifies conceptual and geographic foundationalism

►► emphasizes importance of multiple grounds

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

►► modifies conceptual and geographic foundationalism

►► emphasizes importance of multiple grounds

►► highlights diversity, discontinuity, noise, tentativeness, multiple universalisms, fluidity, globalizing influences

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

►► modifies conceptual and geographic foundationalism

►► emphasizes importance of multiple grounds

►► highlights diversity, discontinuity, noise, tentativeness, multiple universalisms, fluidity, globalizing influences

►► suggests a different way of navigating difference

Journalism in the Service of Communication

Why do we need to reposition journalism in the service of communication?

►► modifies conceptual and geographic foundationalism

►► emphasizes importance of multiple grounds

►► highlights diversity, discontinuity, noise, tentativeness, multiple universalisms, fluidity, globalizing influences

►► suggests a different way of navigating difference

►► orients toward a communication field without a center

Journalism in the Service of Communication