Why Journalism? A Polemic

ISBN-13: 9781032701646 / Twarda / 2024 / 240 str.

USA) Miller Toby (University of California at Riverside

Opis

This new book from Toby Miller engages with journalism from within the cultural studies tradition, addressing fundamental claims for the profession and its biggest contemporary challenges: critiques, objectivity, and insecurity. 

Recenzje

“An engaging romp, a careful dissection, and a radical indictment of what's wrong with journalism. Smart suggestions for where to find signs of renewal and hope, too. Vintage Toby Miller.”

- Silvio R. Waisbord, The George Washington University, USA

"This powerful book is a devastating critique of the failures of Anglo-American journalism. It provides endless examples of the gap between normative accounts of truth-telling and actual practices of stenography, clientilism and complicity with elites. From reporting on everything from food to climate and from sports to war, Miller's polemic situates journalism closer to misinformation than the democratising practice we desperately need it to be."

-     - Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

"From a starting point of “cosmic ambivalence about the news today” Miller and his co-authors take us on a political economic and cultural analytic romp through mainstream journalism’s failures. Questioning its moral and material basis from sports journalism to free speech; weaving philosophical and ideological critique with an analysis of journalistic practice defined by a methodological individualism, nationalism and absolutism – Why Journalism is far more than a polemic but it is a rollicking good read!"

-    - Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter One—Citizenship (with Bill Grantham)

Chapter Two—Environment (with Richard Maxwell)

Chapter Three—Sports (with David Rowe)

Chapter Four—Technology

Conclusion

O autorze

Toby Miller is Profesor Visitante, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Profesor Cátedra de Comunicación y Teoría Crítica, Universidad de la Frontera, and Research Professor in the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside.