Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in a changing Media Landscape
- 15 July 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journalism Practice
- Vol. 9 (6), 760-772
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2015.1051357
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.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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