Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Future Of Journalism
- Social Role
- 'window to the world'
- provide information from which we draw 'cognitive maps' of reality
- liberal plurist role
- supply public with information for
rational economic, electoral choices
- informs on things they need to know
- root of public sphere (Habermas)
- uses & gratification (Benevolent)
- news used to inform, no power to tell us what to think
- media effects = limited impact on audience
who uses content to gratify their needs
- agenda setting
- cause & effect between content of media agenda & public perception of important issues
- social constructivism
- journalists shape perception of what news is, how we should react to it
- social reproduction
- media construct our world
- news media produced with dominant ideology opposed by superior elite on minor group
- Gate-keeper
- makes highly subjective judgements about what is/isn't important
- news values
- makes last decision about what makes it in newspaper
- people perceive as true what fits in their belief (dominant ideology)
- journalists learn by 'osmosis'
- knowledge is assimilated
- Citizen Journalism
- democratises media by giving access publishing platforms
- not trained 'journalists'
- construct own sense of reality
- Internet in hands of regular people
- User Generated Content
- normal people taking pictures of events
- Edwards Snowden
- "sole motive of leaking documents was to inform public"
- secrecy doesn't allow freedom of speech
- computing technology is a political tol
- News Values
- Galtung & Ruge
- world events
- media perceptions
- selection distortion
- media image
- personal perception
- selection distortion
- personal image
- provide hierarchy for which news is
recognised as important
- Agenda Setting
- what to think about
- Framing
- how to/should think about it
- Framing Analysis (Whitney 2004)
- journalist selects topics, underlines
issues, interprets causes & effects
- facilitates audience's comprehension of content
- media manipulates society (reality) - active role
- media is a passive transmitter