Building Peace through Journalism in the Social/Alternate Media

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Social media networks are rapidly rewriting the traditional principles and protocols of war and conflict reporting. This paper endorses the argument that with the help of new media technologies, journalists can enhance the peacebuilding efforts in societies and communities. Their writings in the alternate media can provide ‘compelling form of engagement’ between the audiences and the people affected in the areas of violent conflict. But, the paper further argues, this requires a broadening of the orthodox model of journalistic objectivity that has so far been in place. It examines the possibilities of new models in the light of the existing journalism paradigms as argued by scholars including Galtung and Ruge (1965), Lynch and McGoldrick (2005), Shinar (2007), Hackett (2011) and Shaw (2011). It concludes on the need to have a model that is ‘a more natural fit’ for the 21st century by giving journalists the ‘flexibility’ to enable people to make their own judgments as to where the truth lies; and to open up the possibilities for dialogue and engagement in conflict resolution. (author's abstract)

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISSN: 2183-2439
• Umfang: Seite(n): 63-79
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Media and Communication, 4(1)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Politikwissenschaft ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik ; Kommunikatorforschung, Journalismus ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; militärischer Konflikt ; internationaler Konflikt ; ethnischer Konflikt ; Friedenssicherung ; Friedensprozess ; Konfliktregelung ; Dialog ; Soziale Medien ; neue Medien ; Digitale Medien ; interaktive Medien ; Journalismus ; Medientheorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Aslam, Rukhsana
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i1.371
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ