The Shift from High to Liquid Ideals. Making Sense of Journalism and Its Change through a Multidimensional Model

Koljonen, Karin
Allern, Sigurd
Bødker, Henrik
Eide, Martin
Lauk, Epp
Pollack, Ester
2014-11-14T13:25:18Z
2014-11-14T13:25:18Z
2013-12
By reading qualitative studies, surveys, organisational histories, and textbooks, one can claim that the ethos of journalists has undergone fundamental changes in recent decades. The “high modern” journalistic ethos of the 1970s and 1980s was committed to the core values of the journalistic profession: objectivity, public service, consensus maintenance, gate-keeping, and recording of the recent past. After the millennium, these central ideals have become more ambivalent and “liquid”: subjectivity, consumer service, the watchdog role, agenda-setting, and forecasting the future seem to be more tempting alternatives than before. This article develops an analytic framework that elaborates the simple narrative from “high modern” to “liquid modern” journalism. Five key elements, namely, (1) knowledge, (2) audience, (3) power, (4) time, and (5) ethics, are discussed and problematized to suggest a more nuanced view of the changing professional ethos of journalism.sv
13 p.sv
Nordicom Review, 34 (Special Issue) p. 141-154sv
978-91-86523-83-1
1403-1108
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37419
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Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicomsv
journalistic professionsv
core elements of journalismsv
professional ethossv
high/ liquid modern idealssv
multidimensional modelsv
analysis of changesv
The Shift from High to Liquid Ideals. Making Sense of Journalism and Its Change through a Multidimensional Modelsv
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