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    Articles tagged Herbert Gans (7)

    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”.
    Herbert J. GansApril 29, 2013
    Public opinion polls do not always report public opinion
    Sociologist Herbert Gans says the news media should do a better job noting that “polls are answers to questions rather than opinions,” and that not all opinions have the same intensity — or the same impact.
    C.W. Anderson: The public is still a problem, and other lessons from “Rebuilding the News”
    “Rather than the public being eclipsed or forgotten, there are instead too many publics.” C.W. Anderson
    Herbert J. GansNovember 28, 2012
    Citizen news: A democratic addition to political journalism
    Sociologist Herbert Gans argues it’s time for political reporting to stop focusing solely on the elites and experiment with new models for bottom-up journalism.
    Maria BustillosJuly 21, 2011
    Marshall McLuhan, Superstar
    The McLuhan manner was to appear anywhere he found interesting, which is to say all over the place, and that willingness was as influential as his ideas.
    March 21, 2011
    “News media are targeted but audiences are not”: Herbert Gans on multiperspectival journalism
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