{"title":"Understanding Journalisms: From Information to Entertainment by Persuasion and Promotion","authors":"Marc-François Bernier","doi":"10.3138/cjc.2022.0033","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There is no one journalism. There are several journalisms with different aims and functions. They could be positioned on a continuum from the highest democratic functions to the deepest needs for entertainment, a continuum from reason to emotion, from democracy to diversion.","PeriodicalId":45663,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Canadian Journal of Communication","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc.2022.0033","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There is no one journalism. There are several journalisms with different aims and functions. They could be positioned on a continuum from the highest democratic functions to the deepest needs for entertainment, a continuum from reason to emotion, from democracy to diversion.
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The objective of the Canadian Journal of Communication is to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. In pursuing this objective, particular attention is paid to research that has a distinctive Canadian flavour by virtue of choice of topic or by drawing on the legacy of Canadian theory and research. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada. The Canadian Journal of Communication is a print and online quarterly. Back issues are accessible with a 12 month delay as Open Access with a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Access to the most recent year''s issues, including the current issue, requires a subscription. Subscribers now have access to all issues online from Volume 1, Issue 1 (1974) to the most recently published issue.