Published: 2024-05-12

Epistemological Obstacles and the Quality of Journalism and Contemporary Media

Jan Pleszczyński
Kultura-Media-Teologia
Section: Artykuły i rozprawy
https://doi.org/10.21697/kmt.2023.57.07

Abstract

In the media and journalism, quality means caring for epistemology and axiology. In the article, I discuss what, in my view, are six key obstacles to achieving the said quality. Having originated in the modern communication and media technologies, they are closely linked together; they also impact each other. These obstacles are: primary experience, hybridization of media coverage, technoratiomorphism with a surplus of ratiomorphism in the sphere of intersubjectivity, a crisis of fact and testimony, a deepening dissonance between the power of sending and receiving media coverage, and supplanting epistemology with gnoseology,
i.e. epistemology of an individual entity. In the article’s conclusion, I offer a suggestion on how to neutralize these obstacles.

Keywords:

media, journalism, quality, epistemology, ratiomorphism, technoratiomorphism

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