“Global journalism” is a specific reporting style that provides a global
perspective on relevant issues and how they affect different parts of
the world. We continue to work on this concept of “between Dream and
Reality” (Leuven & Berglez et al., 2015) through Public Scholarship
(Buroway, 2005). As a relevant issue, we focus on the “Global Trust
Deficit Disorder” in and between nation-states, which UN Secretary
Antonio Gutierrez describes as a global loss of trust in the core
institutions of Politics, Business, and Media with Populism and
Polarization on the march (Flew, 2021; Hanitzsch & Van Dalen et al.,
2018). Public Scholarship aims to address global injustices, understand
the public, and co-create new and unconventional knowledge for a better
world (Waisbord, 2020; Billard & Waisbord, 2024). In doing so, we
combine the Future Lab Method (Jungk & Müllert, 1979) with standards
of empirical social science.
- Trainer/in: Alexis von Mirbach
We will discuss the body of knowledge in international media research ranging from the Theories of the Press (Siebert et al., 1956) over Comparing Media Systems (Hallin & Mancini 2004, 2011) to Worlds of Journalism (Hanitzsch,
Hanusch, et al., 2019). In addition, students get familiar with the
empirical methods of journalism studies. Theoretically, we focus on the
aim to decenter Media Studies (Waisbord & Mellado, 2014), Public
Diplomacy in International Communication (Gilboa, 2023), and
developments of the Bourdieus Field Theory to design a transnational
field of Journalism (Christin, 2017). As an outcome, each Student
constructs a national field of journalism for a selected country based
on Media Data such as Revenue, Circulation, and audience structure
(Benson & Neveu, 2005). We theorize and summarize the national field
results to conceptualize a Global field of journalism.
- Trainer/in: Alexis von Mirbach