The Staff of the Columbia Journalism Review and James Marcus (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231159319
- eISBN:
- 9780231500586
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231159319.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004, the series also allows authors to address such ongoing ...
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The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004, the series also allows authors to address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute “truthiness” for hard, challenging fact. Representing a wide range of views, this book embodies the diversity and dynamism of contemporary nonfiction while offering fresh perspectives on works by Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Rachel Carson, and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. It also highlights pivotal moments and movements in journalism as well as the innovations of award-winning writers.Less
The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004, the series also allows authors to address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute “truthiness” for hard, challenging fact. Representing a wide range of views, this book embodies the diversity and dynamism of contemporary nonfiction while offering fresh perspectives on works by Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Rachel Carson, and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. It also highlights pivotal moments and movements in journalism as well as the innovations of award-winning writers.
Marie Gillespie, Nesrine Abdel Sattar, and Mina Lami
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447317012
- eISBN:
- 9781447317036
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447317012.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The chapter is based on the integration of social media in an interactive TV political debate programme broadcast daily by the BBC Arabic Service called Nuqtat Hewar (NH). Our argument is that the ...
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The chapter is based on the integration of social media in an interactive TV political debate programme broadcast daily by the BBC Arabic Service called Nuqtat Hewar (NH). Our argument is that the BBC s traditional journalistic ethos is at odds with the social media practices of Arab news audiences and, in the case of NH, that this creates huge difficulties for widening and diversifying participation on the programme and for political engagement. Although the empirical realities of user participation online are far from the BBC s aspiration to foster a global conversation , there is evidence that a democratic deepening is evolving alongside participatory forms of journalism. New forms of deliberative and media literacy are developing among NH users and this is contributing to energising political communication. But political communication is itself undergoing a sea change, not least in the more varied places and spaces in which it occurs and as repertoires of political participation multiply and change.Less
The chapter is based on the integration of social media in an interactive TV political debate programme broadcast daily by the BBC Arabic Service called Nuqtat Hewar (NH). Our argument is that the BBC s traditional journalistic ethos is at odds with the social media practices of Arab news audiences and, in the case of NH, that this creates huge difficulties for widening and diversifying participation on the programme and for political engagement. Although the empirical realities of user participation online are far from the BBC s aspiration to foster a global conversation , there is evidence that a democratic deepening is evolving alongside participatory forms of journalism. New forms of deliberative and media literacy are developing among NH users and this is contributing to energising political communication. But political communication is itself undergoing a sea change, not least in the more varied places and spaces in which it occurs and as repertoires of political participation multiply and change.
Ted Conover
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231159319
- eISBN:
- 9780231500586
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231159319.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This essay reviews the book The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (2000), by Stanley Booth. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is a detailed account of the rock band, which culminates with ...
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This essay reviews the book The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (2000), by Stanley Booth. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is a detailed account of the rock band, which culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway in California. The Altamont concert ends in tragedy: as the Stones play the next night, the Hell's Angels, acting as security, will kill a black man and beat others. Altamont is considered by many to be the calamity that began the eclipse of the Age of Aquarius. One of the perils of participatory journalism is exposure to a subject's vices—drugs, in the case of the Rolling Stones. Drug use was part of the ethic of the times. If you take Booth's explanation at face value, his time with the Stones becomes a kind of parable about participatory journalism.Less
This essay reviews the book The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (2000), by Stanley Booth. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is a detailed account of the rock band, which culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway in California. The Altamont concert ends in tragedy: as the Stones play the next night, the Hell's Angels, acting as security, will kill a black man and beat others. Altamont is considered by many to be the calamity that began the eclipse of the Age of Aquarius. One of the perils of participatory journalism is exposure to a subject's vices—drugs, in the case of the Rolling Stones. Drug use was part of the ethic of the times. If you take Booth's explanation at face value, his time with the Stones becomes a kind of parable about participatory journalism.
