@article{article_395083, title={A DISCUSSION ON THE METHODOLOGY OF PEACE JOURNALISM}, journal={The Turkish Online Journal of Design Art and Communication}, volume={7}, pages={556–565}, year={2017}, DOI={10.7456/10704100/003}, url={https://izlik.org/JA74MS25EU}, author={Atay, Ayça Demet}, keywords={Peace journalism,methodology,critical realism,constructionism,epistemology}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> <span style="font-family:’Times New Roman’;" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">Peace journalism is a normative mode of journalism
that aims to contribute to nonviolent transformation of conflicts. The theory,
which supports that news about conflict should be given in a way to enhance
empathy and understanding among adversaries, is referred to as a revolutionary
or insurgent form of journalism by various sources. Peace journalism had an
ambiguous start regarding its methodology, which seems to be related to the
movement’s pragmatic take-off in the late 1990’s, and did not discuss its methodology
until the mid-2000’s. Later Jake Lynch (2006, 2007, 2014) proposed critical
realism as the methodological foundation of the movement. This paper discusses
the methodology problem of peace journalism and suggests instead a
constructionist methodology, which is based on the premise that there is no
truth independent of the observer; rather everything we <i>know </i> about the world is socially constructed. Critical realism
prioritizes ontology over epistemology and argues that there is a certain shape
of reality that one has to believe in. This paper argues that this
transcendental ontology is a form of story-telling and there are thousands of
ways of telling a story. Therefore, the priority for journalism should be on
epistemology, that is to say, on the question of “how to know” as news is a
representation of reality, and not a reflection of it. <span>  </span> </span> </p> <p> <br /> </p>}, number={4}