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A Study Of James W.Carey's Idea Of Journalism History

Posted on:2018-08-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:C FangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1318330515469638Subject:Radio and television and digital media
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Although James W.Carey's idea of journalism history has been neglected for a long time in Chinese scholarship,this paper attempts to contextualize Carey'sproposals in journalism history with his crucial texts and the historical and social backgrounds and then discusses the relationship between his idea of journalism history and his American culture studies and its influence of his idea of journalism history in American journalism history research.From the perspective of knowledge production,there are two significant aspects of such analysis:first,it can summarize and evaluate the contribution of his idea of journalism history in intellutual history;second,it helps to understand the historical,interpretation and critical method in Carey's American culture studies.Following this train of thought,this paper puts forward three problems which need to be solved:first,what is the background of Carey's idea of jour-nalism history,what is its core idea,and how has it changed?Second,what is the relationship between his idea of journalism history and other ideas,and how to understand the role and status of journalism history in its academic thoughts?Third,what is the influence of Carey's view of journalism history on the study of contemporary American journalism history,and how does it affect the discussion after Carey's view?Based on the relevant literature,this paper,through the investigation of the history of in-tellectual and concepts,attempts to outline the ideological connotation and development of the idea of Carey's journalism history,and then answer the following two questions.This paper is divided into six chapters.The first thress chapters discuss the concept,his-torical context and changing path of Carey's concept of journalism history in.The second three chapters discuss the relationship between his view of journalism history and American culture studies,and its contribution to contemporary American journalism history research.This paper indicates that Carey advocates the culture journalism history study by solving the problems such as how the reporters to construct the news text,how the "structure of the feel-ing" of the people at that time is showed by journalism.This method abandoned the tradition-al elite materialism,is a revolution in terms of the American traditional progressive journal-ism history writing.Then Carey expands the journalism "cultural history" to the "cultural-practice history" of journalism,and further emphasizes the construction of journalism history through dialogue among the common people.This paper also points out that Carey's idea of journalism history is also related to his understanding of "journalism".As the main advocate of American public journalism,Carey critizes traditional "liberal-pluralism" view of Ameri-can journalism and advocates that journalism is essentially not a process of information pass through but a free and democratic dialogue to maintain and consolidate the community and their culture.Therefore,the history of journalism writing is bound to follow the path of "cul-tural history".With the discussion above,the paper demostrates that the idea of culture journalism his-tory is permeated into the study of American culture studies,reflected in the research of communication technology,communication,journalism education and other issues.In the dissemination of technology research,Carey emphasized to look squarely at both positive and negative cultural effects that technology brings,being vigilant to technology fetishism;in the dissemination of studing the nature of communication,he stressed that the communication cultural/ritual view than the communication transmission view;in the dissemination of jour-nalism education research,he stressed that the essence of humanism,critique of utilitarianism and the supremacy of technology concept of education.As far as the research of the contemporary American journalism history is concerned,Carey's view of journalism history has inspired and promoted its development.The research of contemporary American journalism history study can be divided into two main types:one is to continue with the orientation of "journalism" as the center,to fill the gaps in the tradi-tional Whig history study.It mainly reflected in David Nord's new "journalism institution history" and "history of reading news," Hanno Hardt's "journalism labor history" and women's journalism history,black journalism history,Indian journalism history and so on;the second type is to see journalism as a part of the society,mainly to talk about the journalism as a the influence factors of social development.Its research is reflected in the communication tech-nology history study,Michael Schudson's "media social history" and other branches.John Nerone tries to integrate the two orientations,and advocates to "media history" including all these contents.Based on the above discussion,this paper holds that the contribution of Carey to the cul-tural history of journalism lies in the following aspects:first,it promotes the "cultural turn" in the study of the American journalism history;second,it liberates the study of journalism his-tory.His academic thought embodies the thought of integrating history,present and future,and it is a research on the contemporary capitalist society.According to Carey's intellectual contribution,Chinese scholars should open their eyes and rethink the study of journalism his-tory carefully.
Keywords/Search Tags:James W.Carey, the idea of journalism history, culture view of journalism history, media history
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