Journal article
Cultures of Restraint and Towards an Appraisal of Non-Western News Values
Journalism studies (London, England), Vol.26(16), pp.2024-2040
2025
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2183063
Abstract
Research on Western European and North American news media continues to dominate scholarship in the field of journalism studies. The remedies sought to rectify this imbalance notably include comparative studies across non-Western and Western countries using large-scale surveys or content analyses. At an epistemological level, such studies adopt-often inherently-an Enlightenment-inspired normative frame that makes the comparisons and transpositions possible. On the one hand, these normative frames are necessary placeholders to make sense of the global field of journalism considering existing hierarchies of knowledge production. On the other, such frames are untenable because they conveniently force Enlightenment-based assumptions upon non-Western cultures, which fundamentally exist in tension with those normative assumptions. Departing from such comparative studies and approaches, this article proposes the concept of "cultures of restraint" to understand non-Western journalism practices and news values in a more context-sensitive manner. We demonstrate the utility of this concept by applying it to the case of vernacular language migrant journalists in the Middle East. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, we illuminate the cultural conditions that shape the journalistic task of redefining "normative" news values, in the process challenging conventional interpretations of news and journalism.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cultures of Restraint and Towards an Appraisal of Non-Western News Values
- Creators
- Subin Paul - IE UniversitySujatha Sosale - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journalism studies (London, England), Vol.26(16), pp.2024-2040
- DOI
- 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2183063
- ISSN
- 1461-670X
- eISSN
- 1469-9699
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 03/02/2023
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984375455402771
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