Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in a Changing Media Landscape

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Abstract

This special issue addresses a topic of journalism studies that has previously been somewhat neglected but which has gained increasing scholarly attention since the mid-2000s: the coverage and evaluation of art and culture, or what we term “cultural journalism and cultural critique.” In this introduction, we highlight three issues that serve to frame the study of cultural journalism and cultural critique more generally and the eight articles of this special issue more specifically: (1) the constant challenge of demarcating cultural journalism and cultural critique, including the interrelations of “journalism” and “critique”; (2) the dialectic of globalisation’s cultural homogenisation, on the one hand, and the specificity of local/national cultures, on the other; and (3) the digital media landscape seen in terms of the need to rethink, perhaps even redefine cultural journalism and cultural critique
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournalism Practice
Volume9
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)760-772
Number of pages13
ISSN1751-2786
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jul 2015

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • cultural critics
  • cultural critique
  • cultural journalism
  • digital journalism
  • digital media
  • news

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