Su suggerimento di @Sguenz

Considerati gli ultimi eventi che hanno caratterizzato il luglio del 2016, abbiamo letto pagine e pagine sulle vite delle vittime degli incidenti e degli attentati ma ben poche analisi sul contesto e sulle ragioni.

Polis, il blog della London School of Economics, presenta alcune riflessioni su come il giornalismo stia sempre più cercando di suscitare emozioni piuttosto che riflessioni, e sulle ragioni di questo cambiamento.

As journalism and society changes emotion is becoming a much more important dynamic in how news is produced and consumed. I would argue that this is redefining the classic idea of journalistic objectivity, indeed, it is reshaping the idea of news itself. That matters because journalism has an increasingly significant role in our lives as information, data and social media become more ubiquitous and more influential. At the moment journalists are exploring this as a professional phenomenon and citizens are seeing it as something that is personal – but I will suggest that to understand this better we need to think about the science around the relationship between emotions and understanding and behaviour.

Immagine da Wikimedia Commons.