Reading the News: Professional Values ​​and Media Critique

author:
Li Lifeng is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a fellow of the International Communication Association, the founding and current co-chairman of the Society for Hong Kong Studies, and the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Communication. Major academic works include Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press) and Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). In addition to academic writings, he also writes media and current affairs commentary for newspapers.

Contents of this book:
Every day, the news tells us what is happening in society and the world, and what deserves people's attention. But to what extent does news content reflect reality? What factors influence news content? What is professional journalism? In addition to providing us with information, what other social and cultural functions does the news have? This book discusses the relationship between news and society, politics, culture, and media technology from the perspectives of communication and sociology, helping readers understand how news is produced, and hoping to give readers more perspectives for reading and analyzing news.