Observing News and Media in a Complex Society

A Sociocybernetic Perspective

Toru Takahashi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

102 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69043-1 (ISBN)

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Exploring the conditions of news reporting, this book looks into the studies of social systems theory and inter-media agenda setting. The author invites us to expand our understanding of media’s role in the societal process of problem-solving and meaning construction.

Exploring the conditions of news reporting in today’s information-flooded society, Observing News and Media in a Complex Society looks into the strands of systems theoretical studies of the mass media, journalism and the empirical studies of inter-media agenda setting. Journalism is increasingly exposed to diverse perception and facing its selectivity observed by the public. Considering this context, this book focuses on the movement of solution-oriented journalism, which seeks a new way to answer the question “what is journalism for?” and invites us to expand our understanding of media’s societal role in the societal process of problem-solving and meaning construction.

Toru Takahashi, Ph.D. (2001), Tohoku University, is Professor at Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Chuo University in Tokyo. He has published many articles on media including "Governing and Societal Media for Building Resilience"> (Current Sociology, 2019).

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Abstract

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Introduction

Part 1 Cybernetics and Communication

1.1 Communication and Recursivity

1.2 Communication as a Social System

1.3 Problem-Solving as a Social Catalyst

1.4 Governing in a Complex Society

Part 2 Media, Journalism, and Society

2.1 Journalism and News Values

2.2 Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of the Mass Media

2.3 Systems Theory of Journalism and the Public Sphere

2.4 The Public Sphere and Journalistic Autonomy

Part 3 Media and Politics

3.1 Politics and the Mass Media

3.2 Politics and Morality

3.3 Conflict and Society I: Terrorism

3.4 Conflict and Society II: Armed Conflict

Part 4 News as Societal Observation

4.1 Structural Change of the Media Constellation and Journalism

4.2 “Source Cycle” between the News Media and the Blogosphere

4.3 Communication and Surplus Meanings

4.4 News as Self-Descriptions of Society

Part 5 Observing News and Media in a Complex Society

5.1 Journalism as Investigative Curator

5.2 Reporting for Governing?

5.3 Media as Societal Facilitators for Problem-Solving

Summary and Conclusions

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Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	187 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-69043-3 / 9004690433
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69043-1 / 9789004690431
Zustand	Neuware