Observing News and Media in a Complex Society

A Sociocybernetic Perspective

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Exploring the conditions of news reporting in today’s information-flooded society, Observing News and Media in a Complex Society looks into the strands of systems theoretical studies of the mass media, journalism and the empirical studies of inter-media agenda setting. Journalism is increasingly exposed to diverse perception and facing its selectivity observed by the public. Considering this context, this book focuses on the movement of solution-oriented journalism, which seeks a new way to answer the question “what is journalism for?” and invites us to expand our understanding of media’s societal role in the societal process of problem-solving and meaning construction.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-13
Mått155 x 235 x 6 mm
Vikt187 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity
Antal sidor94
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004690431

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AcknowledgementsAbstractKeywordsIntroductionPart 1 Cybernetics and Communication1.1 Communication and Recursivity1.2 Communication as a Social System1.3 Problem-Solving as a Social Catalyst1.4 Governing in a Complex SocietyPart 2 Media, Journalism, and Society2.1 Journalism and News Values2.2 Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of the Mass Media2.3 Systems Theory of Journalism and the Public Sphere2.4 The Public Sphere and Journalistic AutonomyPart 3 Media and Politics3.1 Politics and the Mass Media3.2 Politics and Morality3.3 Conflict and Society I: Terrorism3.4 Conflict and Society II: Armed ConflictPart 4 News as Societal Observation4.1 Structural Change of the Media Constellation and Journalism4.2 “Source Cycle” between the News Media and the Blogosphere4.3 Communication and Surplus Meanings4.4 News as Self-Descriptions of SocietyPart 5 Observing News and Media in a Complex Society5.1 Journalism as Investigative Curator5.2 Reporting for Governing?5.3 Media as Societal Facilitators for Problem-SolvingSummary and ConclusionsReferences

"With news media being so closely associated with the political system, Takahashi brings the relationship between these two into sharper relief […]. [Takahashi] is able to successfully place Luhmann’s work within the broader context of media studies by directly comparing the latter’s criteria for news selection with other authoritative schematisations."—Nico Buitendag, North-West University, In: Soziale Systeme, Volume 29, Issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 312–324.