What is journalism if not a mirror for culture and a speaker for the society?

By Galkin Daniil

 


It does seem like a rhetorical question – journalism, society, and culture. Three different, yet massively parallel institutions. If, for example, we take a country, a certain time period, and learn about their people, their culture, and their way of communication, we can actually get a good picture of how this country functioned at this time. So let’s dive in and try to solve this puzzle – what is the relationship between journalism, society, and culture?

If we were to discuss journalism, culture, and society, then you should always try to speak to their definitions. Journalism is a system of disciplines, whether artistic, sociological, or cultural, for the collection, processing, and dissemination of information. Culture is one way or another of existence that determines the level of being at a given time site. Society is a human community that determines the specifics of the relationship between people.

Culture and society are in a constant, stable relationship and everyday interactions. Journalism in its pure form reflects the opinion of society, the culture of the time in which it exists. Therefore, we get an answer to what kind of relationship between our objects of research - everything is simple, it is a symbiosis.

Journalism influences culture, society is built and works on culture, and society itself uses journalism as a mouthpiece for its opinion. What happens if journalism is disconnected from society or from culture? It seems to me that then society will start to develop.

Journalism helps society move forward, analyze what is happening around and give a comprehensive picture of what is happening in and around society. According to the President of the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University of Lomonosov, Yasen Zasursky, good information and the right choice of topics for information can help the development of both journalism itself and society and in general.

Culture and journalism in Russia are associated with their origins. Almost all the first Russian journalists are writers who contributed their word to still unborn activities, and despite the decline in cultural development in our time, journalists still turn to literature, especially classical literature, to form their worldview, for comparisons or simply for metaphors in their texts. A cultural journalist, both in the past and in the present, is a journalist who is trusted and is ready to listen to.

What do we get if we break this symbiosis? A cultureless society? Journalism for one person, without any critical thinking and different opinions? Naturally, we can disconnect them in some way, for example, for independent study. However, in my opinion, the relations between culture, journalism and society should not be violated - they do not depend on each other, but they complement, allow us to look back at the past, go for the present and look into a bright and literate future. Yes, as of today, any plumber can become a “journalist” – share a picture, write a comment on it, and boom, you’re now the media.

However, journalism cannot exist without its audience – society. Uncultured society would simply stoop to the level of ancient barbarians. And that is why this interesting symbiosis should exist in some way or another.




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