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Journalism in the Academy, a MacIntyean account of the institutions and practices of journalism education in England

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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:04 authored by Lee Salter
This paper to considers some of the systematic problems and constraints faced by academics teaching and researching in the field of journalism and journalism studies. To do this, I draw on MacIntyre’s philosophical concept of practice, applying it to the practice of journalism and the practice of academia, which I argue here have many commonalities. This conceptualisation of the practical activities of journalists and academics also takes account of their factual dependence on institutions. MacIntyre argues that although institutions should be considered to be necessary, in bureaucratic capitalist social systems they tend to pursue external goods at the cost of the goods internal to the practice. Practices thus become corrupted as institutions orient them to the pursuit of external goods. I argue that both journalists and academics are subject to similar processes of institutional domination, or colonisation, and that because of this, the capacity study, teach, and then practice a critical journalism adequate to a properly democratic community is stymied. The most significant problem on this analysis is that processes of colonisation are not discrete, they are systematic, extensive and commonly experienced. Consequently it is inadequate to consider discrete forms of resistance to these problems and constraints. Instead, I argue, we must consider common and collective forms of resistance.

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  • Published

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IC : Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación

ISSN

1696-2508

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University of Seville

Issue

9

Page range

75-102

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  • Media and Film Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-10-15

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