Showing papers in "Journal of Communication Inquiry in 1976"
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TL;DR: The potential for the application of Dewey's pragmatism by contemporary media scholars is clear as discussed by the authors, and they must not stay in the realm of philosophy alone but must offer proposals which contain not only his pragmatisms, with its scientific method, but also the historical tradition of what is generally considered American pragmetism, concepts for change that might work.
Abstract: The potential for the application of Dewey's pragmatism by contemporary media scholars is clear. We must not stay in the realm of philosophy alone but must offer proposals which contain not only his pragmatism, with its scientific method, but also the historical tradition of what is generally considered American pragmatism, concepts for change that might work.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that photographers are liars, deceiving themselves and their audiences, concerned not with the art of photography, but with chatter of gadgetry and mechanics, they catalogue themselves along with their equipment.
Abstract: Photographers are liars, deceiving themselves and their audiences. Concerned not with the art of photography, but with chatter of gadgetry and mechanics, they catalogue themselves along with their equipment. (Straus and Nesterenko, 1974, 3).
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TL;DR: In this article, Carver argues that words do not label things already there; they free the idea, the thing, from the general formlessness of the outside as a man speaks, not only is his language in a state of birth, but also the very thing about which he is talking.
Abstract: " words do not label things already there Words are like the knife of the carver: they free the idea, the thing, from the general formlessness of the outside As a man speaks, not only is his language in a state of birth, but also the very thing about which he is talking Edmund Carpenter
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TL;DR: The systemic interrelationships of culture, social structure and personality systems within news organizations have been examined in this article, where the authors argue that efforts to reform journalism by altering its methodologies, democratizing the newsroom, or enhancing the education of journalists must reckon in the last analysis with the systemic interrelation of culture and social structure.
Abstract: ... efforts to reform journalism by altering its methodologies, democratizing the newsroom, or enhancing the education of journalists must reckon in the last analysis with the systemic interrelationships of culture, social structure and personality systems within news organizations.
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TL;DR: In this article, freedom of expression and freedom of the press mean "a guarantee for a social system that tolerates creative minds and encourages critical opinions by providing ways of involving the many and varying talents of individuals in the discussion about society and about the future of the social system".
Abstract: ... freedom of expression and freedom of the press mean... a guarantee for a social system that tolerates creative minds and encourages critical opinions by providing ways of involving the many and varying talents of individuals in the discussion about society and about the future of the social system.
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TL;DR: It's the journalist's obligation to avoid both the cerebral peaks and rarified air of the literary commu nity and the substandard committee writing of who-what-when-where news, to apply "direct perceptions" and "immediate intuitions" to events, and to express those verdicts regularly in clear and cogent prose as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: It's the journalist's obligation to avoid both the cerebral peaks and rarified air of the literary commu nity and the substandard committee writing of who-what-when-where news, to apply "direct perceptions" and "immediate intuitions" to events, and to express those verdicts regularly in clear and cogent prose. It's the editor's obligation to have faith in that prose.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors form a new context, one more appropriate for journalists, one that recognizes technology as merely a human artifact, good and bad only within the values humans create.
Abstract: ... we form a new context, one more appropriate for journalists, one that recognizes technology as merely a human artifact, good and/or bad only within the values humans create. Within this new context, ... ours is the responsibility of recognizing possible futures and their consequences.