Posts by Sacha
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Surely "losing" is such an absolute concept, Giovanni. :)
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Not that I'm against broad-mindedness. I think sometimes academic cultural theorists don't go far enough to see their own tribes as a culture of their own.
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Antipathy might be warranted. Derrida has some useful ideas, but really, I'm sure 99.9% of people would rate him extremely high on the wankery scale.
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"Dickpot" - rofflenui
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To be fair, Giovanni, there are some writers who have discussions informed by theory without the theory being so in your face. Pomo is a bit self-consciously confronting like that - and excessively turgid at times, which I wonder isn't partly a cross-cultural phenomenon in itself.
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You mean like Paul Reynolds?
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Certain disciplines are more likely to provide relevant theory about the topic.
And that is likely to mean disciplines which focus on meaning, culture and power - sociology, politics, cultural studies and so on. Physics, less likely - except quantum ones. Now how did we get back there?
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I don't think anyone here is arguing that critical theory should dominate journalism training. If it helps trainee journos understand the history of the fourth estate and its relationship with power, I don't much mind which types of theory are applied.
As I said during the session on future of news media at Foo, journos and media organisations have historically been granted privileged and protected access. The associated responsibilities seem to be falling by the wayside in favour of commercial imperatives and shallow infotainment - hence the current attention to remedying that trend.
Certain disciplines are more likely to provide relevant theory about the topic. The challenge is making their lessons relevant to a non-academic (and non-French) audience, and I expect some courses do that quite well already. But I wouldn't expect the leadership of that process to come from the theoretical academics.
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There's a tendency to regard the merits of theory as beyond debate.
And I would argue there is a tendency in this country - and seen in these very forums at times - to regard the de-merits of theory as beyond debate. Neither position is helpful.
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Academic wankery does not do itself any favours, but then neither do regurgitations of existing power relationships without the slightest awareness about media's role in them.
I sure know which one of those I see most often. Some are more obvious like the smugly obedient editorial asides on TV1's "news", while others are insidious like the way certain social subgroups are relentlessly portrayed across a variety of channels by a non-variety of journos.
Thanks for addressing this topic and I'll try to fit in some time to watch the show.
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