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What is Journalism?: The Art and Politics of a Rupture
Chris Nash
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 247 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 369 x 245 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
This book argues that journalism should treat itself as an academic discipline on a par with history, geography and sociology, and as an art form in its own right. Time, space, social relations and imagination are intrinsic to journalism. Chris Nash takes the major flaws attributed to journalism by its critics—a crude empiricism driven by an un-reflexive ‘news sense’; a narrow focus on a de-contextualised, transient present; and a too intimate familiarity with powerful sources—and treats them as methodological challenges. Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Gaye Tuchman, he explores the ... Read more
This book argues that journalism should treat itself as an academic discipline on a par with history, geography and sociology, and as an art form in its own right. Time, space, social relations and imagination are intrinsic to journalism. Chris Nash takes the major flaws attributed to journalism by its critics—a crude empiricism driven by an un-reflexive ‘news sense’; a narrow focus on a de-contextualised, transient present; and a too intimate familiarity with powerful sources—and treats them as methodological challenges. Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Gaye Tuchman, he explores the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137399335
SKU
V9781137399335
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99-15
About Chris Nash
Chris Nash is the Founding Professor of Journalism at Monash University, Australia. Before that, he was Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was a Walkley Award winning journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation working in radio and television, and directed the independent film documentary Philippines, my Philippines.
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