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Introduction Journalism’s Creative Reconstruction: How Innovation in News Is Embracing Enduring Professional and Civil Values
María Luengo
News media are suffering a Schumpeterian “creative destruction” (Schumpeter, 1975 [1942]). This has been the received wisdom among scholars and media watchers evaluating the impact of digital technology on journalism today. However, is “creative destruction” an appropriate term in this case? The use of it to explain this recent period of upheaval in journalism usually involves reductive techno-economic paradigms that overlook critical cultural and ethical dimensions.
This collective book aims to understand technological innovation as “creative reconstruction” (Alexander, 2016). The idea of creative reconstruction was coined by cultural sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander around 2014, after he and a group