Et fast greb om journalistikken

Omtale i RetorikMagasinet 80 (2011)

Red.: Gitte Haslebo, Magnus Harald Haslebo, Nye veje for journalistik – når sprog skaber virkeligheder, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 2010, 304 sider.

Med fine forord af Tøger Seidenfaden og Christian Kock lægger bogen Nye veje for journalistik – når sprog skaber virkeligheder op til en åbenbaring i forhold til spørgsmålet om journalistikkens moral, etik, ansvar og ikke mindst fremtidige rolle.

Bogens syv forfattere formår i høj grad at udfordre journalistikken som begreb med hver deres videnskabelige indgangsvinkel, og hvert kapitel kan oplagt bruges som inspiration til en god debat eller som undervisningsmateriale.

Åbenbaringen bliver derved udløst ved bogens indhold og problemstillinger, men sproget og tonen i bogen er trættende i længden. Kombinationen af de (for) nøje beskrivende metakommentarer samt tunge, akademiske fraser tager pusten fra læseren. Rådet må være at tage et kapital ad gangen og ikke prøve at sluge bogen på én gang.

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Shadows in the Cave. Revisiting Mats Rosengren’s Doxology

Caves, images, and symbols are recurring topics in the work of Mats Rosengren, from his reading of Plato in his dissertation Psychagōgia – Konsten att leda själar, to his investigation of the world of paleolithic cave art in Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge. While other philosophers might have descended into the cave with the aim of guiding visitors back up into the blinding light of eternal truths, Rosengren seems to be at home in the underworld. Instead of dismissing the paintings that adorn its walls as merely shadowy copies or distorted images, or claiming that the truth of these pictures is readily available to us, Mats Rosengren invites any traveler joining him to understand them as different forms of sensemaking, forms which at first might appear foreign, but that, upon closer inspection, reveal themselves in all their complexity. In this volume, the contributors take on some of the key themes found in Rosengren’s work, mirroring the stylistic, generic, and topical range that characterizes it. The volume is titled “Shadows in the Cave”, signaling a focus not on eternal truth, but – alluding to Plato – on the shadowplay of our human caves. Läs mer...

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