Connecting journalism to global development
Journalism is undergoing changes spurred by media technologies. Media ubiquity is reshaping much of our thinking about cultural and political development. From this point ov view we may want to revisit some of the classics in the study of the media and modernizaton — that is the confluding thought in this particular lecture.
A lecture coming up
this morning on globalization, media development and journalism prompts the following question: What is the connection, or whether there is one in particular? How does one unite these perspectives into a coherent 2-hour talk? Here is my version.
The concept of globalization eventually leads to the underlying theme – a call for a global public sphere of accountability and transparency. Ultimately, much of the media critique ends here. This leaves an open space for a review of the last fee decades of technolgy developments. And it introduces into thr equation the perspective that the emergence of social media allows for a kind of societal participation that was never part of the “greeat debates” during the 1970´s and 1980´s.
- Those debates are largely forgotten but should be brought back.
- The question then is whether new expectations concerning journalism are on the horizon?
Lecture notes here. gj-302-sep-27-2016-v1