Decoupling journalism and democracy: Or how much democracy does journalism need?
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd.
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
School of Communication and Arts / Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications
RAS ID
16537
Abstract
The title of this collection of articles is meant to provoke, and will hopefully intensify, a long overdue debate. The five articles presented here made up a session at the 2011 International Association for Media and Communication Research conference in Istanbul. The panel then carried the somewhat more circumspect title of ‘Does journalism have to be defined in terms of democracy?’ which, in the course of our discussions, turned into the more emphatic question, ‘How much democracy does journalism need?’ This change in the title is telling. It turns journalism into the active rather than the dependent party, and signals that journalism does have a life outside democracies.
DOI
10.1177/1464884913489000
Comments
Josephi, B. U. (2013). Decoupling journalism and democracy: Or how much democracy does journalism need?. Journalism: Theory Practice and Criticism, 14(4), 441- 445. Available here