Where ideas go to die / Michael McDevitt.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197519448 (ebook) :Subject(s): Journalism -- Social aspects -- United States | Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States | Journalism -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Social aspects -- United States | Democracy -- United States
| Social control -- United States | United States -- Intellectual life -- 21st centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190869953DDC classification: 302.230973 LOC classification: PN4888.S6 | M33 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Where Ideas Go to Die explores the troubled relationship of US journalism and intellect. A defender of common sense, the press is irked at intellect yet often dependent on its critical autonomy. The social control of intellect by journalism is accompanied by social control of journalism in newsrooms and in classrooms where norms are cultivated. Anti-intellectualism consequently operates like dark matter in media, a presence inferred by its effects rather than directly observed or acknowledged. When journalists anticipate a punitive public, the reified resentment is no more real than the fiction of omnipotent citizens in democratic theory, yet the audience imagined compels how intellect is rendered in the news as nuisance, deviance, or object of ridicule. Interviews with 25 "dangerous professors" demonstrate how alliances in the academic-media nexus can seed intellect in newswork.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Where Ideas Go to Die explores the troubled relationship of US journalism and intellect. A defender of common sense, the press is irked at intellect yet often dependent on its critical autonomy. The social control of intellect by journalism is accompanied by social control of journalism in newsrooms and in classrooms where norms are cultivated. Anti-intellectualism consequently operates like dark matter in media, a presence inferred by its effects rather than directly observed or acknowledged. When journalists anticipate a punitive public, the reified resentment is no more real than the fiction of omnipotent citizens in democratic theory, yet the audience imagined compels how intellect is rendered in the news as nuisance, deviance, or object of ridicule. Interviews with 25 "dangerous professors" demonstrate how alliances in the academic-media nexus can seed intellect in newswork.
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