Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies
Vol. 6, No. 3, 2017, pp. 485-506
DOI: 10.1386/ajms.6.3.485_1
ISSN 2001-0818 © 2017 Intellect Ltd
Global interaction as a learning path
towards inclusive journalism
Tom Moring and Kim Zilliacus, University of Helsinki
Verica Rupar and Gregory Treadwell, Auckland
University of Technology
Asbjørn Slot Jørgensen, Inger K. Larsen and Inger Munk,
Danish School of Media and Journalism
Donald Matheson, University of Canterbury
Journalism faces new and serious challenges against a backdrop of attacks on the political
notion of an inclusive and pluralist society, an idea based on internationally and locally
accepted fundamental rights frameworks. Tese frameworks build on recognition, respect
and inclusion of diference, based on individual or collective rights and a critical stand
towards the construction of diference. Te immediacy and potentially global reach of digi-
tal communication has dramatically changed the information order and given the concept
of inclusiveness new meanings. Journalists will have to cope in new ways with extended
networks feeding into their understanding of inclusive society. In 2013, four journalism
schools in New Zealand and the Nordic countries launched a joint project linked to the EU
initiative ‘Promoting the drivers for inclusive & sustainable growth’. Tis article ofers a
policy centred elaboration of inclusiveness and university teaching aimed to raise awareness
and sensitivity towards diversities, power and reporting. Collaborative forms of inclusive
pedagogy with multimodal qualities are presented. Perspectives of combining personal
mobility and net-based pedagogical tools that establish a genuinely interactive relation
between the teacher-as-student and student-as-teacher in online learning environments