Digital news as forms of knowledge: a new chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge
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Journalism. Digital journalism. News. Sociology of Knowledge. Robert Park.Abstract
This paper, originally published as a book chapter, discusses the forms of knowledge generated by digital news and it is a revision of what Robert Park proposes in his article News as a form of knowledge, from 1940. Park has located informative journalism somewhere in the continuum between “acquaintance with” and “knowledge about”, and this study goes a step further, proposing three ideal-typical forms of news produced and consumed today in digital environments: news-as-impression, news-as-items and news-about-relations. These categories are proposed and used to describe and to try to understand the more ephemeral or contextual character of the news. This paper advocates, at last, that digital news produces not only one form of knowledge, but different forms of knowledge.
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