Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
4-1-2000
Abstract
The contributors to this symposium on the identity, mission, and direction of journalism studies have raised more questions than answers. Each contributor faced responding to: what is required to ensure that journalism’s scholarship remains connected with its practice and criticism? How are we to study journalism in a way that will keep it vital, relevant, and yet connected to impulses that go beyond the world of newsmaking? How are we to create a future for the study of journalism? While answering questions with questions is a rhetorical strategy with sometimes positive implications, here it appears to fasten ambivalence and uncertainty as the default assumptions underlying the study of journalism.
Date Posted: 27 April 2012
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Zelizer, Barbie. (2000). Afterthoughts: So Where are we to Turn in the Study of Journalism? Journalism, 1(1), 59-60. doi: 10.1177/146488490000100111