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Online Journalists: Foundations For Research Into Their Changing Roles, Jane Singer
Online Journalists: Foundations For Research Into Their Changing Roles, Jane Singer
Jane B. Singer
Interactive media have grabbed the attention of communication researchers in the latter half of the 1990s, but the focus to date has been primarily on media audiences and their use of these new forms. This paper suggests four approaches that may help provide theory-based underpinnings in a different area: the study of journalists and the ways in which their roles and jobs are changing. The approaches are gate-keeping theory; diffusion of innovation theory; sociological perspectives, particularly those involving the sociology of news work; and a somewhat eclectic perspective that explores the idea of journalism as a potential force of cohesion …
On The Relevance Of Standpoint Epistemology To The Practice Of Journalism: The Case For "Strong Objectivity", Meenakshi Durham
On The Relevance Of Standpoint Epistemology To The Practice Of Journalism: The Case For "Strong Objectivity", Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
This paper interrogates traditional notions of journalistic "objectivity" and its interpretation in conventional news reporting. I argue here that the underlying principles of objectivity devolve in practice to an epistemic relativism that fails to consider the validity of various truth claims. I propose an alternative of "strong objectivity" grounded in standpoint theory. I trace the arguments against scientific objectivity that parallel critiques of journalistic objectivity, then propose an alternative conception of praxis that maximizes reflexivity and has the potential to fulfill the
Dilemmas Of Desire: Representations Of Adolescent Sexuality In Two Teen Magazines, Meenakshi Durham
Dilemmas Of Desire: Representations Of Adolescent Sexuality In Two Teen Magazines, Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
This article interrogates gendered ideologies of sexuality in two teen magazines, Seventeen and YM. The method of analysis involves a close reading of written texts and images relating to sex or sexuality. The patterns that emerge from this analysis reveal tensions that center around sexual decision making versus sexual signification via costuming, cosmetics, and body image. The analysis uncovers a representation of sexuality that parallels sociocultural norms of contradiction and antilogy in the characterization of girls' desire.
Revolutionizing The Teaching Of Magazine Design, Meenakshi Durham
Revolutionizing The Teaching Of Magazine Design, Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
Outlines an approach to teaching magazine design which incorporates radical pedagogical theories with contemporary issues in visual communication. Efforts of scholars of visual communication to develop a pedagogical strategies that incorporate a consideration of ethics and culture into teaching; Use of emancipatory theories of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire; Comments on the process by which magazines are edited.
Dating For Grownups, Pamela Nettleton
“Narrative Analysis Of Sexual Etiquette In Teenage Magazines, Ana Garner, H. Sterk, S. Adams
“Narrative Analysis Of Sexual Etiquette In Teenage Magazines, Ana Garner, H. Sterk, S. Adams
Ana Garner
No abstract provided.
Access Guide To Minneapolis/St. Paul, Pamela Nettleton
Access Guide To Minneapolis/St. Paul, Pamela Nettleton
Pamela Nettleton
No abstract provided.