Towards De-Westernizing Journalism Studies

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ID20040377
AuthorsHerman Wasserman and Arnold S de Beer (corresponding author)
Year2009
Pages448-458
Publication date2009-01-13
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHandbook of Journalism Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203877685-41
OpenAlexW1949895556
ISBN9780203877685
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The accelerated globalization of media and its increasingly participatory possibilities in the twentieth and twenty-fi rst centuries as a result of technological advances has raised pertinent questions regarding the defi nition of journalism and journalists. In an era where media have become “environmental” to the extent that the world is becoming a “mediapolis,” (Silverstone, 2007), the task of empirically and normatively defi ning “who is a journalist”; “what is journalism” (cf. Wyatt, 2007); deciding what is meant by journalism studies education (Fröhlich & Holtz-Bacha, 2003; Murray & Moore, 2003) and how it could be researched (see Löffelholz & Weaver, 2008) has become urgent-even while there is not agreement on evidence pointing to the relative “newness” of the current epoch of media globalization (Sparks, 2007)

Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication

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