TY - JOUR
T1 - “What is wrong cannot be made right”?
T2 - Why has media reform been sidelined in the debate over “social justice” in Israel?
AU - Schejter, Amit
AU - Tirosh, Noam
N1 - Funding Information:
Ecclesiastes 1:15. This study has been supported by a Career Integration Grant awarded by the Marie Curie FP7 program of the European Union and by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1716/12). Both authors contributed equally to this study. The site (http://j14.org.il/polimap/) does not exist anymore. The minutes of the internal debates of the committee were sealed until the Supreme Court forced the government to uncover them in March 2013. The committee’s letter of appointment can be accessed at: http://hidavrut.gov.il/content/ 4244 The site does not exist anymore. A stereotypically low-income city. In such countries as Estonia (Woodward, 2003) Finland (Riesinger, 2009); France (London Times, 2009); Greece (Constitution of Greece, 2009); and Spain (Reuters, 2009). All party platforms were accessed online during the elections and are on file with authors.
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PY - 2015/1/21
Y1 - 2015/1/21
N2 - When hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in the summer of 2011, protesting the high cost of living and demanding “social justice,” the ills of the media system including its concentration, the growing digital divide, and the implosion of public broadcasting were not made part of the social movement's agenda. This study employs a justice-based theory for media, analyzing three types of “products” of the social movement: the unionization of media workers, the establishment of alternative media, and the reports recommending regulatory/institutional reform. We attempt to understand why media reform, an essential element without which social justice cannot be fully achieved, has been sidelined in the debate over the ways to achieve “social justice” in Israel.
AB - When hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in the summer of 2011, protesting the high cost of living and demanding “social justice,” the ills of the media system including its concentration, the growing digital divide, and the implosion of public broadcasting were not made part of the social movement's agenda. This study employs a justice-based theory for media, analyzing three types of “products” of the social movement: the unionization of media workers, the establishment of alternative media, and the reports recommending regulatory/institutional reform. We attempt to understand why media reform, an essential element without which social justice cannot be fully achieved, has been sidelined in the debate over the ways to achieve “social justice” in Israel.
KW - Israel
KW - Media Reform
KW - Social Media
KW - Social Movements
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U2 - 10.1080/15295036.2014.998514
DO - 10.1080/15295036.2014.998514
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84922479048
SN - 1529-5036
VL - 32
SP - 16
EP - 32
JO - Critical Studies in Media Communication
JF - Critical Studies in Media Communication
IS - 1
ER -
