Reimagining Journalism and Social Order in a Fragmented Media World

This book examines journalism’s ability to promote and foster cohesive and collective action while critically examining its place in the intensifying battle to maintain a society’s social order.

From chapters discussing the challenges journalists face in covering populism and Donald Trump, to chapters about issues of race in the news, intersections of journalism and nationalism, and increased mobilities of audiences and communicators in a digital age, Reimagining Journalism and Social Order in a Fragmented Media World focuses on the pitfalls and promises of journalism in moments of social contestation. Rich with perspectives from across the globe, this book connects journalism studies to critical scholarship on social order and social control, nationalism, social media, geography, and the function of news as a social sphere.

In a fragmented media world and in times of social contestation, Reimagining Journalism and Social Order in a Fragmented Media World provides readers with insights as to how journalism operates in order to highlight―and enhance―elements and actions that bring about order. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies and a special issue of Journalism Practice.

Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is Senior Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on issues of intersections of journalism, geography, and power, and appears in Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. He is editor of The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy (Routledge, 2018).

Kristy Hess is an Associate Professor in Communication at Deakin University, Australia. She studies journalism (especially at the local level) and its relationship to social connection and place-making, often through a lens of media power. Her work appears in leading international journalism and media journals, she is the author of two monographs, and she is the Associate Editor of Digital Journalism.