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Articles tagged academia (27)

Mike AnannyFebruary 2, 2021

Journalists are grappling with their relationships to big tech companies. It’s time for academics to do the same.

We’ve debated “access journalism.” Next up: “Access scholarship.”

Joshua BentonNovember 16, 2020

So what did the 2020 election really mean, anyway? Here’s a first draft of media history, from 100-plus scholars

Including how research into sports fandom explains Trump supporters’ claims of voter fraud: “One’s degree of team identification is a major predictor for attributing a loss to external forces such as referees and opponents’ cheating, resulting in denial of the outcome.”

Joshua BentonMarch 23, 2020

These are the four waves of journalism studies over the past 20 years: the participatory, crisis, platforms, and populist eras

“The economic problem for journalism was not competition, in other words, but surveillance and monopoly.”

Here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest research on local news’ impact and future

Lívia VieiraMarch 18, 2019

Is the business model for American national news “Trump plus rolling scandals”? And is that sustainable?

An interview with researcher C.W. Anderson: “You do have to wonder how long we can keep up before people have a nervous breakdown.”

Rasmus Kleis NielsenMay 25, 2018

What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? A lot about newsrooms, less about everybody else in the news ecosystem

Also, has the “fake news” moment already passed for academics?

Shan WangAugust 17, 2017

Brazil’s Nexo Jornal sticks to its founding principles: Explanatory journalism, subscribers, and no ads

“We realized that context and explanation, we should take those things to an almost radical level.”

Shan WangAugust 17, 2017

Contextualizar y explicar: las claves de Nexo Jornal de Brasil

“Desde un punto de vista editorial, nos dimos cuenta de que debemos llevar la contextualización y la explicación a un nivel casi radical”.

C.W. Anderson and Pablo BoczkowskiJune 12, 2017

When certainties fade: The changing state of academic research into the changing world of news

“Nostalgia provides reassurance and self-gratification, but it is also intellectually and socially stultifying. It is time to move on, make sense of the present by learning from history, not by clinging to it, in order to help shape more productive futures.”

C.W. Anderson and Pablo BoczkowskiJune 12, 2017

De Watergate a las fake news: los nuevo futuros del periodismo

“La nostalgia, tanto en el periodismo como en la academia, no es productiva; el presente está maduro para reflexionar sobre el pasado como una vía para imaginar nuevos futuros”.

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