Back to the Future

The emergence of “fake news” during the Brexit referendum and Trump election campaign sent news organisations scurrying to establish teams of journalists to debunk deliberately misleading stories and verify facts. This paper examines steps to counter false stories and asks whether normative values of objectivity are about to enjoy a comeback. Typical markers of objectivity (freedom from bias, detachment and fact-based reporting) date back to the nineteenth century and, despite being ingrained in the Anglo-American news culture, have always been subject to challenge. Recently, the growth of partisan and populist media has illustrated deep distrust in traditional news outlets and is questioning whether it is time to jettison objectivity. But are we experiencing a backlash? Through interviews with senior UK-based journalists at legacy news organisations and analysis of editorial policy statements prompted by a UK parliamentary inquiry, the paper explores how fake news is rekindling debate about objectivity and its potential to make quality journalism stand out. It argues that legacy news organisations in the United Kingdom have seized the opportunity to highlight the value of normative practices that draw on familiar components of the objectivity paradigm. But few have the financial strength to bolster the rhetoric with additional editorial resources.     

Placing Facebook

Facebook is challenging professional journalism. These challenges were evident in three incidents from 2016: the allegation that Facebook privileged progressive-leaning news on its trending feature; Facebook’s removal of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Napalm Girl” photo from the pages of prominent users; and the proliferation of “fake news” during the US presidential election. Using theoretical concepts from the field of boundary work, this paper examines how The Guardian, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and Poynter editorialized Facebook’s role in these three incidents to discursively construct the boundary between the value of professional journalism to democracy and Facebook’s ascendant role in facilitating essential democratic functions. Findings reveal that these publications attempted to define Facebook as a news organization (i.e., include it within the boundaries of journalism) so that they could then criticize the company for not following duties traditionally incumbent upon news organizations (i.e., place it outside the boundaries of journalism). This paper advances scholarship that focuses on both inward and outward conceptions of boundary work, further explores the complex challenge of defining who a journalist is in the face of rapidly changing technological norms, and advances scholarship in the field of media ethics that positions ethical analysis at the institutional level.     

A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Political News Discourse-A Case Study of News Report about Iraq

Critical Metaphor Analysis is a new method of critical discourse analysis. It aims at revealing attitudes, believes, emo?tions and ideologies of a specific group by comprehensively adopting the knowled...     

智能化时代传统媒介新闻理念的演进与方法创新

在新闻智能化传播的环境下,传统媒介的新闻信息资源理念发生变化,智能算法成为新闻信息资源获取和开发的重要手段。智能化传播的新闻信息价值判断,建构了新闻事实信息-社会数据信息-用户需求信息三位一体的新闻信息价值确认系统,体现了智能化新闻信息价值理念的特殊追求。新闻信息生产流程中人工智能系统与新闻传播者形成特殊的生产关系,新闻信息生产理念强调人机协作与共处,由此产生新闻报道视野和新闻产品形态的变化。智能化的新闻发布机制,促进了新闻信息的多渠道推送和分散化传播,也有力推动了传统媒介新闻信息传播理念的智能化转变。     

Between business and morality: cultural politics in independent bookshops in China

ABSTRACT

This article investigates how cultural businesses may facilitate contentious political activity in authoritarian contexts. Existing research in Western liberal democracies has shown the widespread political activism of actors in the cultural and creative industries. Whether such activism exists in authoritarian society, how it may differ in character and form, and what implications this will have for our understanding of relations between business, politics, and culture in authoritarian countries remain to be addressed. Drawing on data collected from 55 ‘independent bookshops’ in China, I illustrate how these organisations perform ‘cultural politics,’ a type of political participation in which actors employ mainly symbolic means to express social and political concerns. The organisations’ economic relations and conditions facilitate their efforts to create spaces in which contentious questions can be raised, sensitive topics explored, and alternative ideas expressed, despite the Chinese state’s political regulation of the cultural sphere. The finding of the economic embeddedness of cultural politics sheds new light on our understanding of the political economy of cultural businesses in contemporary China.     

大学生体育课项目选择及其影响因素研究

对河南省大学生体育课项目选择和影响因素进行了调查研究 ,发现大学生的体育学习和体育课项目选择有不同特点 .文章分析了形成目前状况的原因 ,这对我们安排教学内容 ,培养授课教师 ,提高大学生上体育课的兴趣 ,形成他们良好的锻炼习惯 ,增强体质都有重要的作用 .     

"文革"时期经济体制变动的逻辑嬗变

“革”时期经济体制的变动保持了放权改革的一般逻辑，但创设战备型的体制模型强化了计划的控制，限制了改革的进一步深入。“抓革命，促生产”的制度逻辑安排限定了体制变动的方式，歪曲了体制化观念，对中国的经济体制变动产生了消极的影响。解放体制观念，培育新的制度化，应是当务之急。     

通信工程实验室的构建

通过通信工程实验室的构建,提出了以实验箱为主体,计算机网络设备为载体,同时构建以数字程控交换机和网络交换机为核心的程控交换系统方案,该方案不仅可以实现固定电话信号的传输,而且能够支持无线通信,更好地满足通信专业的本科教学和学科建设。     

方言电视新闻的发展瓶颈与对策

当前我国方言电视新闻遭遇三大瓶颈，即国家法律法规带来的政策瓶颈、语言障碍引起的传播瓶颈和新闻内容选择上的品质瓶颈。方言电视新闻节目要突破各类瓶颈制约，应加强对自身节目形态的历史地位的认识，在抓住本地老居民的同时，也尽可能多地争取外来新居民，还要牢牢树立“内容为王”的理念，在内容上做好文章。     

中国早间电视的发展现状与对策

中国早间电视潜在着巨大效益,电视从业者要改变观念,找准早间电视节目的定位,分析收视对象,利用早间电视的传播特征,把握时机创造出早间电视的时段效益。