Critical Realism and News Production

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7100809
AutoresRaymond W K Lau (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen26
Número5
Páginas693-711
Fecha de publicación2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0163443704045507
OpenAlexW1975109763
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas37
Referencias citadas20

Critical realism provides a fresh viewpoint concerning news production. The prevailing typology in the sociology of news production is critiqued and supplemented by a distinction between extraneous factors constraining journalists and internal factors deriving from journalists themselves. While approaches focusing on extraneous factors are implicitly realist, the philosophical underpinnings of approaches focusing on internal factors are varied, with the result that anti-realist interpretations of news are prone to be made. To counteract this, realist accounts of the internal factors of news values and routine journalistic practices are provided. This enables a unified realist approach to news production. The implications of such a realist analysis for understanding news as a representation of reality are discussed

Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Realism · Representation (politics · Sociology · Typology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics