Remodeling Journalism: A Networked Relations Perspective

Huang Dan

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1) : 75-88.

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1) : 75-88.

Remodeling Journalism: A Networked Relations Perspective

  • Huang Dan is a professor at Fudan Journalism School. Email: huangdan@fudan.edu.cn.
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  As a system of knowledge, development of journalism is based on the practices of those professional news organizations. Yet, through the lenses of networked relation, professional journalism and communication has undergone fundamental changes because of the communication revolution. First, occupying position but barely possessing power. Second, dissolution of boundaries between media and society and creation of multiple connections by self-organization. Third, reassessment of existing professional ethics. Fourth, as a knot, assessing news organization’s abilities on the basis of the volume of connects /arrival rates and the capacity of converting them to data. Therefore, remodeling journalism is at stake. It includes the following aspects: to conceptualize journalism as a communication platform rooted in networked relation and to convert journalism into a empirical discipline; unthinking all the prior assumptions about the discipline and theory; to reorient the aims of journalism education and remodel its major arrangments, course design, training methods and forms through the perspective of networked relation.

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networked relations / journalism / remodeling

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