Andreas Hess in the Irish Times

Associate Professor Andreas Hess (UCD, School of Sociology) writes in the Irish Times about a new book of Jeffrey Alexander on the crisis in journalism:

The separation of media studies from sociology hasn’t helped to throw light on the state of journalism. The apparent crisis of the profession often seems to be reduced to technological matters and to the question of how to best manage information overload: what to do about the acceleration and virtual omnipresence of information, and how to make sense of Twitter, Facebook, the number of reads (clicks), the endless stream of activists’ and politicians’ blogs or the noise that stems from constant media streaming. It often appears as if journalism’s purpose consists only in fairly reproducing the state of the world in miniature and, if possible, in an instant....

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http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/is-journalism-really-in-crisis-what-does-the-future-hold-1.2754539