Working at the End of the Assembly Line
A Conversation with Joris Luyendijk about the Impossibility of Doing Western-style Journalism in Arab Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernadette Kester (0000-0001-6145-2551, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Media, Faculty for History and Arts, Room L3-014, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands, kester@ fhk.eur.nl, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 500-506 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Press/Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-1612 • E-ISSN: 1040-1620 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1940161208323537 |
| OpenAlex | W2054311480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In 2006, Joris Luyendijk wrote a best-selling book about his experiences as a correspondent in the Middle East. The book People like Us. Images from the Middle-East offers an insightful, critical, and self-reflexive view on the problems concerning the practice of journalism in Arab countries (and other regimes, for that matter). The author argues that practicing Western-style journalism in nondemocratic systems is a contradiction in terms. Luyendijk fervently pleads for a more self-reflexive and transparent kind of journalism
Art · Contradiction · Conversation · Epistemology · Impossibility · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Middle East · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2021 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |