Book review: The Journalism Manifesto by Barbie Zelizer, Pablo J. Boczkowski and C. W. Anderson

IF 1.8 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Péter Bajomi-Lázár
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it, for the sophistication through which this text carries its arguments leaves little room for anything but appreciation. In that sense, it is a genuine tour de force for the field and makes one wonder if anything will be the same after. The writing is comprehensive, convincing and utterly compelling. A rather impressive aspect of this volume is the lack of engagement with popular perspectives of ‘all powerful’ global communication, for example approaches from scholars such as Thussu (2020), Herman and McChesney (1997), Hamelink (2015), Jin (2019) and others. For some, this perhaps equates to a refusal to acknowledge or polemicize, for others, simply taking the discussion elsewhere. Instead, we find carefully traced and described conclusions such as ‘The Internet is far more a localizing than a globalizing medium. The world’s political and cultural boundaries are being reproduced on the internet’ (p. 185). Simple and clearheaded notions, along with related reminders that, for example, news is inherently local and domesticated with very few exceptions, encourage us to consider if we are being honest with ourselves about the real nature of global communication, or whether we remain drunk on possibility that it has never really transformed into reality. With this book, Hafez and Grüne have made a towering contribution to the academy, destined to influence scholarship on global media and communication for some time to come in the foreseeable future. The way we look at cross-border communication desperately needs to change, and by more exactingly considering processes at work in social systems and lifeworlds, we may now have a more realistic empirical footing to stand on. Finally, the student of mine, looking for that global communication job, might now be able to have a clearer understanding of what global communication really is, or isn’t.
书评:《新闻宣言》,作者:Barbie Zelizer, Pablo J. Boczkowski和C. W. Anderson
由于这篇文章的论点非常复杂,所以除了欣赏之外,它几乎没有给任何东西留下余地。从这个意义上说,这是该领域真正的杰作,让人怀疑之后是否还会有什么不同。写作内容全面,令人信服,完全引人注目。这本书的一个相当令人印象深刻的方面是缺乏对“全能”全球传播的流行观点的参与,例如Thussu (2020), Herman和McChesney (1997), Hamelink (2015), Jin(2019)等学者的方法。对一些人来说,这可能等同于拒绝承认或争论,对另一些人来说,只是把讨论转移到别处。相反,我们发现仔细追踪和描述的结论,如“互联网与其说是全球化的媒介,不如说是本地化的媒介”。世界的政治和文化边界正在互联网上被复制”(185页)。简单而清晰的概念,以及相关的提醒(例如,新闻本质上是地方性的,几乎没有例外),鼓励我们思考,我们是否对全球交流的真实本质诚实,或者我们是否仍然醉心于它从未真正转化为现实的可能性。通过这本书,哈菲兹和格罗涅为学术界做出了巨大的贡献,注定在可预见的未来一段时间内影响全球媒体和传播的学术。我们看待跨境交流的方式迫切需要改变,通过更准确地考虑社会系统和生活世界中的工作过程,我们现在可能有了更现实的经验基础。最后,我的学生,正在寻找全球传播的工作,现在可能能够更清楚地了解全球传播到底是什么,或者不是什么。
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期刊介绍: The European Journal of Communication is interested in communication research and theory in all its diversity, and seeks to reflect and encourage the variety of intellectual traditions in the field and to promote dialogue between them. The Journal reflects the international character of communication scholarship and is addressed to a global scholarly community. Rigorously peer-reviewed, it publishes the best of research on communications and media, either by European scholars or of particular interest to them.
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