The Attraction of Anti-intellectualism: Appropriation of Journalism Ideology in Media Education

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Journal of Communication Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI:10.1177/01968599221133097

Michael McDevitt

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Abstract

This study considers the possibility that students are subversive actors in a hidden curriculum of anti-intellectualism. Mass communication provides the arena in which intellectuals are held up to public judgment, and consequently media education represents a promising context for observing the enculturation of resentment. The hidden curriculum framework incorporates three sources of influence: socio-demographics, student-oriented anti-intellectualism (impatience with education, disliking instructors), and three dimensions of journalism ideology: the consumer-oriented and loyal roles and accountability to the public. Data are drawn from questionnaires distributed to undergraduates at five U.S. colleges with comprehensive programs in journalism and mass communication (JMC). Republican identity, student anti-intellectualism, and journalism ideology predict support for news media exposing faculty as subversive. The study concludes with suggestions for future research on how JMC education, from a comparative perspective, could be vulnerable to anti-intellectual incursions depending on media system and populist climate.

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反智主义的吸引力:新闻意识形态在媒介教育中的挪用

本研究考虑学生在反智主义的隐性课程中扮演颠覆角色的可能性。大众传播为知识分子提供了接受公众评判的舞台，因此，媒体教育为观察怨恨的文化化提供了一个有希望的环境。隐藏的课程框架包含三个影响来源:社会人口统计学，以学生为导向的反智主义(对教育的不耐烦，不喜欢教师)，以及新闻意识形态的三个维度:以消费者为导向的忠诚角色和对公众的责任。数据来自对美国五所拥有新闻与大众传播综合专业的大学的本科生发放的调查问卷。共和党人的身份、学生的反智主义和新闻意识形态预示着对新闻媒体的支持，这些媒体将教师揭露为颠覆者。本研究最后提出了未来研究的建议，从比较的角度来看，JMC教育如何容易受到媒体制度和民粹主义气候的反智入侵。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Communication Inquiry emphasizes interdisciplinary inquiry into communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural and historical perspectives. Such perspectives imply that an understanding of these phenomena cannot arise soley out of a narrowly focused analysis. Rather, the approaches emphasize philosophical, evaluative, empirical, legal, historical, and/or critical inquiry into relationships between mass communication and society across time and culture. The Journal of Communication Inquiry is a forum for such investigations.