About Interjunction
INTERJUNCTION IS A not-for-profit, edited multiblog aimed at facilitating conversations between the media and academia.
We believe a synergistic intellectual relationship between members of the professional media and media academia can benefit both sides. Interjunction offers a non-partisan platform to foster such a relation.
Objectives
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To enable knowledge-exchange between academia and media
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To identify and critically comment on vitally important issues that apply to media and the academic study of media
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To comparatively examine journalistic and media coverage, on the one hand, and academic analysis, on the other hand, of key issues of our times, such as religious, ethnic, and political conflict and violence, terrorism, globalization, identity politics, and development
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To provide content that make optimal use of the web, including short blog entries, multimedia pieces, and longer, indepth packages
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To provide content of variety, including reviews, interviews, critical essays, survey and overview pieces, and concise reflections
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To evaluate the limits and license of specific media forms and formats – for example, the internet, print, blogs, digital music, network television — in communicating the varieties of human experience
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To present a broad range of political perspectives on events and issues pertaining to media and academia
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To enable conversations between and across different branches of professional media (for example, web design, print journalism, blogging, radio), and various academic approaches to media studies (for example, sociological, anthropological, cultural, economic,policy analysis
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To engage readers and audiences, invite responses, and promote discussions across communities of interest
