Re-present Journalism. The winding road to normal science

Abstract

The transition from paleoperiodism to post-journalism has been characterized by the bias in the analyzes, the epistemological partiality, the accommodation of the old tools to the new dimensions of the old objects and the new objects; faults and inconsistencies of theories not always consistent with empirical research; a profusion of tags and taxonomies by contrast to the absence of new concepts and theories. The long route of metadiscourse and concomitants, of constant loans and fractures, points to a new stage of journalism: the rediscovery of its essence, methodological riddle that implies turn around the epistemic coordinates already established through the discrete insertion in the epistemic field of other knowledge and the transparadigmatic reflection based on the beginning of journalism. This implies the need to recover critically some traditional perspectives, recontextualize them as appropriate and propose a new conceptual framework.