The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond
The Objects and Objectives of Journalism Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond
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DOI：
10.1080/21670811.2020.1773292
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发表时间：
2020-05-27
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Lewis, Seth C.
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作者：
Lewis, Seth C.
冠状病毒大流行最直接和最重要的影响涉及公共卫生。但这场危机也给新闻学研究提出了一些关键问题。作为学者，当我们的许多工作似乎被打破常规时，我们应该停下来，批判性地思考是什么让我们个人和集体走到了研究的这个关头，以及我们未来的目标。我建议在这一时期值得思考的新闻学研究的两个领域：我们的研究对象(我们研究什么)和我们的目标(为什么我们研究)。通过诚实地承认我们的缺点--例如，过度关注某些分析对象而忽视其他对象，或者未能作为我们学术目标的一部分，培养更强大的公众声音--我们可以重新定位我们的研究议程，使其在应对当前危机和为未来的不确定性做好准备时，同时具有响应性和反思性。我们可能不仅把目前的情况视为转向新冠肺炎研究、收集有关转型中的新闻和新闻业的实时数据的好时机，还可能把它视为一个邀请，促使我们从更大、更持久的意义上重新思考我们的研究事业。
The most immediate and important effects of the coronavirus pandemic concern public health. But the crisis also raises a number of key questions for journalism research. As scholars, we should pause, when so much of our working lives seems thrown out of routine, and critically consider what has brought us, individually and collectively, to this juncture in our research and where we aim to go in the future. I suggest two areas of journalism research that are worth pondering during this period: our objects (what we study) and our objectives (why we study). By honestly acknowledging our shortcomings-for example, in giving overweight attention to certain objects of analysis at the expense of others, or in failing to develop a stronger public voice as part of our scholarly objectives-we can reorient our research agendas to be simultaneously responsive and reflective as we address the current crisis and prepare for the uncertainties ahead. We might take the present situation not simply as an opportune moment to pivot to Covid-19 research and collect real-time data about news and journalism in transition, but also as an invitation to rethink our research enterprise in a much larger and longer-lasting sense.