Putting the Public in Publicizing | Improving Journalism Education through the Artistic Practice

DossierPD.PD.PD02.021
StatusInitieel
Subsidie€ 249.400
Startdatum1 februari 2025
Einddatum31 januari 2030
RegelingFinanciering PD-kandidaten 2023-2027
Thema's
  • Kunst en de creatieve industrie
  • Onderwijs en talentontwikkeling
  • Veerkrachtige samenleving: in wijk, stad en regio
  • Creatieve industrie
  • Economie

Being objective as a journalist indicates a distance to your sources and maintaining the role of a neutral bystander. This principle echoes in journalism education; generally speaking, to call something objective is a compliment and to say something is subjective is a warning. This journalistic role perception faces criticism since the late twentieth century.
There’s extensive scholarly research looking to bridge the gap between objectivism and subjectivism, but journalistic education still widely prioritizes a binary perception of these principles, putting a strong emphasis on objective reporting. This PD aims to integrate artistic practices into journalism education that advocate a more balanced approach of the assumed objective-subjective dichotomy.
One such approach is live journalism, where the artistic method extends to productional outcome, usually in the form of a journalistic narrative brought before a live audience. Research shows that, whereas visitors still think such productions should be fact-based, the fact that journalists had (made) a personal connection to their subject was seen as essential to the credibility of their work. This presupposes that journalism in this context is not merely a profession, but rather a person carrying out a profession.
This PD intends to not only accept a certain subjectivity, but to explore its potential in journalism education. It plays with the concept not as being or becoming personally opinionated as a journalist, but as subjecting the self as a reporter. Research shows that for journalists, such an active connection to a target audience and an attitude to want to hear more than an answer to a question leads to a more representative understanding of the position and predicaments of a social group. In this light, the objective and subjective do not present themselves as a T-junction where the journalist chooses either one or the other; they appear in mutuality.

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Fontys Hogeschool

Daniëlle Arets, contactpersoon

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