Re-centring Community, Care, and Curiosity

In this response to the article by Matt Carlson and Chris Peters, Tamara Witschge and Ouejdane Sabbah consider the challenge that the authors deem key for journalism studies and their answer to this challenge: “realist journalism studies.” Tamara and Ouejdane explore what the authors mean by decentring journalism studies, by “realism,” and the reason for wanting to keep journalism studies. They conclude by exploring what they consider the main challenge for journalism studies: to untangle what journalism does in society and how it can serve people and communities better, and what methodologies and theories we would need to do so from a place of curiosity, not opposition.