Description:
While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.
Review Quotes:
"Media Sociology and Journalism: Studies in Truth and Democracy" by Greg Nielsen is a must-read book for everyone who intends to understand the emergence of new political scenarios in the first decades of the 21st century and their relations with media and journalism in contexts of disinformation and digital cultures. -- Rafiza Varão Professor of Ethics and Journalism at the University of Brasília