This volume weaves together ongoing scholarly debates around how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research. It relies heavily on articles media scholars and media practitioners have written on how the sides can work together for the good of society. The contributions to this volume represent the first effort to look at praxis in terms of the dual dynamic of communication and how its two pillars can work together to address relations and interactions from critical perspectives of media and journalism practice and research. The result will lay important groundwork for scholarship on this new and increasingly important phenomenon.
Table of Content
Introduction: Theory Is Not Enough: How to Convert Media and Journalism Studies into Relevant, Useful and Practical Research
Leon Barkho
Part I: What Media Practitioners Say
Chapter 1: Journalists and Scholars: A Short Manifesto
Vin Ray
Chapter 2: Towards a New Relevance: Why the New Media Landscape Requires Journalists and Media Scholars to Forge a Genuine Partnership for the First Time
Matthew Eltringham
Chapter 3: Journalism’s Practitioners and the Academy: Must They Eternally Live in Different Universes?
Kevin Marsh
Chapter 4: Why Practitioners Resent Academic Writing
Leon Barkho
Chapter 5: When the Media Criticize the Media
Åke Pettersson
Chapter 6: Bridging the Chasm: Can Theory Help Media and Journalism Practitioners
Leon Barkho
Part II: What Media Academics Say
Chapter 7: Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research
Leon Barkho and Ibrahim Saleh
Chapter 8: From the High Ground to the Swamp: A Model for Immersive Journalism Research
Sarah Niblock
Chapter 9: Minority Media as Intercultural Dialogue: Towards a Communicative Praxis
Fackson Banda
Chapter 10: Inside Out/Outside In: (Auto-)Ethnographic Work on the Position of the Newspaper Sub-editor
Astrid Vandendaele
Chapter 11: Photojournalism and the Role of Images as Part of Design and Branding
David Machin and Lydia Polzer
Chapter 12: Notes on a Practice-based Media and Journalism Research from a Critical Cultural Perspective
Marcela Pizzaro
Part III: Who Gets It Right?
Chapter 13: Journalists Do Live in a Parallel Universe: A Response to Practitioner Critiques of Journalism Academics
Jairo Lugo-Ocando
Chapter 14: Linking Theory to Practice: Changing the Approach of Media and Journalism Research
Leon Barkho
Chapter 15: Media Academics versus Media Practitioners: Who Gets It Right?
Leon Barkho
About the author
Leon Barkho is professor of media and communication sciences at the University of Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. He holds an M.Sc. in applied linguistics and a Ph.D. in media and communication science. Previously, he held positions at Reuters News Agency as bureau chief and the Associated Press as staff writer. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies. He has written numerous papers on discourse analysis, language, impartiality, translation and media and communication studies. Barkho is the author of News from the BBC, CNN and Aljazeera (Hampton Press, 2010) and editor of From Theory to Practice: How to Assess and Apply Impartiality in News and Current Affairs (Intellect, 2013) and Towards a Praxis-Based Media and Journalism Research (Intellect, 2017). His most recent book A Critique of Arab Media Discourse (2020) was published in Arabic by Arab Scientific Publishers Inc.
Contact: College of Communication, University of Sharjah, W7–118, Sharjah, UAE.
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