JOUR 625 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: News Values, Doxa, Soft Media
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Doxa talks about the similar experiences that the world has to self-explain and are self-evident to us. The general doxa of social practice is the universe of the tactic presuppositions accepted by society. Journalistic doxa is a set of professional beliefs that are evident, self-explaining, and natural norms of journalism. The journalistic doza is specific systems of pressupositions in the field. This names implicit and tactic presuppositions in the field in general, not just by editors and reporters. A good news story is made up of things evident for jorunalists. While you might need some time to experience a good story before it becomes a recognizably good story, it"s a practice of journalism that comes eventually. Routinization journalists use different categories and types of news to lessen the contingency of news work and stories. It is a category that related to soft news and symbolizes a certain aspect of journalism. These different classifications are vision principles shared by jorunalists.