Journalism in a Fractured World / Scott A. Eldridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eldridge, Scott A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online journalism.

Social problems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2025.

Summary:

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. This book addresses the pronounced animosity that has become a feature of the political, digital news and examines metajournalistic discourses produced by peripheral actors to distinguish between antagonists and agonists. Antagonists blur lines between news and politics, and foment societal divisions through narratives of backlash, fragmentation, and grievance. Journalistic agonists are also political and critical, but offer a constructive, critical, vision of journalism and society. Journalism in a Fractured World presents theories and frameworks for engaging with these actors with a clear-eyed message about the challenges journalism and society face, and how we might find our way forward, even in our fractured societies.

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