Journalism in a Fractured World

Journalism in a Fractured World revisits theories of journalism and politics to make sense of peripheral journalistic actors and the animosity that has become a feature of their content. It studies alternative media in the US, UK, and Netherlands to make sense of these actors, the challenges they pose, and their place in a fractured world.

Journalism in a Fractured World addresses the fractured nature of journalism as it has developed online. Engaging with theories from journalism studies and politics, it bases its findings on the study of peripheral journalistic media from the US, UK, and Netherlands. It addresses the pronounced animosity that has become a feature of peripheral, political, digital news. Focusing on the metajournalistic discourses produced by peripheral actors, it develops a framework to distinguish between peripheral antagonists and agonists. Antagonists blur lines between news and politics and foment societal divisions through narratives of backlash, fragmentation, and grievance. Journalistic agonists, on the other hand, are also political and critical, but offer a constructive vision of what journalism and society can become. Journalism in a Fractured World presents theories and frameworks for engaging with these actors with a clear-eyed message about the challenges journalism faces and how we might find our way forward, even in our fractured societies. "This timely work is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of where society and journalism is heading." Matt Carlson, Professor of Journalism, University of Minnesota "Eldridge provides an analytical framework that I am convinced will be of use to everybody concerned with the plurality of news actors and what they mean in our fractured societies." Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Professor in Journalism, OsloMet University

Autorentext

Scott A. Eldridge II (PhD) is an Associate Professor with the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen. His research explores the journalistic field, its boundaries, and peripheral journalistic actors. He is the author of Online Journalism From the Periphery (2018), and is editor of the Frontiers in Journalism Studies book series.

Klappentext

Journalism in a Fractured World addresses the fractured nature of journalism as it has developed online. Engaging with theories from journalism studies and politics, it bases its findings on the study of peripheral journalistic media from the US, UK, and Netherlands. It addresses the pronounced animosity that has become a feature of peripheral, political, digital news. Focusing on the metajournalistic discourses produced by peripheral actors, it develops a framework to distinguish between peripheral antagonists and agonists. Antagonists blur lines between news and politics and foment societal divisions through narratives of backlash, fragmentation, and grievance. Journalistic agonists, on the other hand, are also political and critical, but offer a constructive vision of what journalism and society can become. Journalism in a Fractured World presents theories and frameworks for engaging with these actors with a clear-eyed message about the challenges journalism faces and how we might find our way forward, even in our fractured societies. "This timely work is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of where society - and journalism - is heading." Matt Carlson, Professor of Journalism, University of Minnesota "Eldridge provides an analytical framework that I am convinced will be of use to everybody concerned with the plurality of news actors and what they mean in our fractured societies." Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Professor in Journalism, OsloMet University

Inhalt

Preface - Acknowledgments - Acknowledged contributions - Our fractured worlds - Liberal, deliberative, and agonistic: Theories for a pluralist democracy - Agonistic journalism: Making sense of a fractured field - News of our fractured worlds: Journalism as societal discourse - Metajournalistic discourses: Expanding the aperture - Unheard, in a noisy world - Affirm, affect, affront, aggrieve: Counterpublic narratives - Agonism and antagonism: Journalism in a fractured world - Appendix: Methods & data sampling - Bibliography - Index.