The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered： Cultural Power  

作　　者：Jeffrey C. Alexander 

机构地区：[1]Department of Sociology, Yale University, PO Box 208265, New Haven, CT 06520-8265, USA

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2015年第1期9-31,共23页复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）

摘　　要：Recent technological change and the economic upheaval it has produced are coded by social meanings. Cultural codes not only trigger technological and economic changes, but also provide pathways to control them, allowing the dem- ocratic practices of independent journalism to be sustained in new forms. Even as they successfully defend their professional ethics, however, journalists experience them as vulnerable to subversion in the face of technological and economic change. Indeed, independent journalists and the social groups who support them often feel as if they are losing the struggle for autonomy. Just as current anxieties have been triggered by computerization and digital news, so were earlier crises of journalism linked to technological shifts that demanded new forms of economic organization. Digital production has created extraordinary organizational upheaval and economic strain. At the same time, critical confrontations with digital production have trig- gered innovative organizational forms that allow new technologies to sustain, rather than undermine, the democratic culture and institution of news production. If news producers are making efforts to adapt professional journalism to the digital age while maintaining journalistic civil values, there are parallel adaptations from the digital side： digital journalism becoming more like professional journalism.

关 键 词：Civil sphere JOURNALISM Cultural sociology. Crisis of journalism Citizen journalism Professional journalism 

分 类 号：TN948.12[电子电信—信号与信息处理] G219.2[电子电信—信息与通信工程]