Publicaties

Publieke omroep moet diverser

In het debat over de publieke omroep gaat het om meer dan een paar programma’s of zenders meer of minder. Kernvraag is: wat voor land willen we zijn.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 27-08-2018

De gelaagde waarheid van de journalistiek

De recente discussie over nepnieuws en filterbubbels laat zien dat we journalisten hard nodig hebben. Een samenleving kan niet zonder instanties die aan waarheidsvinding doen. Waarheidsvinding is meer dan recht doen aan de feiten of controleur zijn van de macht.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 20-04-2018

Theorizing government communication with regard to the Dutch nature policy

The implementation of a National Ecological Network poses a significant challenge to the Dutch government. The establishment of this ecological network has led to conflicts among various interest groups in the public sphere, each of which defends its own interests. In this struggle for recognition communication fulfils an important role. This article contends that the discourse about nature is driven by deep frames, is comprised of values and is rooted in world-views. The insight that worldviews play a role elucidates the various positions in the debate and shows normative dimensions in communication. This article argues that the network society, more than ever, requires the government to be explicit about its normative choices.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 28-02-2018

Lessons Learned

Jobs of communication professionals are closely linked to transformations in society and therefore the role of these professionals is changing rapidly. Communication students must be prepared for the new demands put on communication professionals in the field. In Ede, a new curriculum in communication was launched in order to enable students to become relevant partners in dialog with society. We can identify three areas in the new curriculum where fundamental transitions have been made, in order to meet the expectations of a profession in transition: 1. Decentralization. In order to create an agile educational environment, we choose flatter structures and more autonomy for development teams (including budgets). Creating educational ownership improved knowledge sharing and idea generation among lecturers. 2. An agile curriculum. We renewed the content of the curriculum and added subjects as online reputation management, web care, training skills, and advanced listening. What’s more: from now on we invest to improve the curriculum every year, in cooperation with stakeholders. Students participate in focus groups about the curriculum and partners in the field are invited as cocreators. 3. The role of lecturers. The ongoing development of the profession has huge implications for the role of the teaching staff. The lecturer used to be the expert. He shared his knowledge with the newcomers, the students. Nowadays lecturers only add value if they continuously gain experience from practice. Therefore, we encourage teachers and students to learn together with partners in the communication field. Published in: Yearbook 2016, first edition 2017, Emerald Publishing Limited: Advances in Public Relations and Communication Management - Volume 2 - How Strategic Communication Shapes Value and Innovation in Society Emerald Publishing Limited: Volume 2, 91-103, 2017 / ISSN: 2398-3914/doi:10.1108/S2398-39142017000000200 Copyright: 2017 by Emerald Publishing Limited / All rights of reproduction in any form reserved

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 14-02-2018

De rijke stad, de gevulde tafel en de mondige boer

Vanouds bestaat er een vanzelfsprekende verwevenheid tussen boer en burger en tussen producent en consument. Zonder vitale landbouw geen gevarieerd voedsel, zonder uitgekiende afzetkanalen geen volle supermarkten. Maar in de historische ontwikkeling waren het altijd steden die de voedselproductie dichtbij en verder weg hebben vormgegeven. En bij smaakvoorkeuren en tafelmanieren waren het rijke stadsbewoners die de toon zetten.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 01-01-2018

Notions of the Sublime

A re-experiencing of the wilderness ideal is taking place in the Netherlands. This is expressed in the attention that is being devoted to projects in which agricultural land is transformed into nature. One of these projects is central to this article: the island Tiengemeten. We aim to study the experiences of visitors to this project in order to gain insight into the extent to which there are layers of depth visible in these experiences. For a lot of respondents going into in nature in general and making a visit to an island such as Tiengemeten in particular are ways of escaping from their day-to-day existence. It is noticeable that the words and images that the visitors use to describe their experiences fit in mainly with the wilderness view of nature. The wilderness view of nature is connected with experiences of the sublime; so in this article we also ask the question as to what the shift to the wilderness view of nature means for the religious landscape of the Netherlands.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 22-12-2017

Government Communication as a Normative Practice

The network society is generally challenging for today’s communication practitioners because they are no longer the sole entities responsible for communication processes. This is a major change for many of them. In this paper, it will be contended that the normative practice model as developed within reformational philosophy is beneficial for clarifying the structure of communication practices. Based on this model, we argue that government communication should not be considered as primarily an activity that focuses on societal legitimation of policy; rather, it focuses on clarifying the meaning of the actions of the government. If the government can convincingly answer the question about the reason for their actions, societal legitimation will subsequently follow. Hence, it is argued that government communication is primarily linguistically qualified.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 12-12-2017

Publiek debat vraagt om deugdelijke verhalen

Wat maken journalistiek en communicatie tot vakken waar je trots op kunt zijn, vakken die een maatschappelijke meerwaarde hebben? Het antwoord op deze vraag is dat beide professies, elk op eigen wijze, een bijdrage leveren aan de hygiëne van het publieke debat.

Journalistiek & Communicatie | 01-12-2017