As a journalist-turned-academic, I live in Hackademia.
Not only is my personal biography comprised of journalism spliced with academic work (that this is so is surely of no interest to anyone but myself); more importantly, my public and professional life is now largely comprised of inquiry into the mode of inquiry called journalism.
I am a journalist investigating journalism - an investigation carried out from the twin positions of engagement with journalism (30 years now since I first earned my living from editing) and critical distance from it (more than a decade since my first academic book was published). As with the combination of two eyes which most of us are lucky enough to see through, the cross-traffic of ideas and information received from each of these different positions adds another dimension to my insight into journalism.
I am currently looking into: the historical subject and the possibility of objectivity; journalism and its role in the history of the social; Web 2.0 and the desire for mutual recognition.
I am also interested in new models for disseminating ideas and developing debate.
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