@article{ref1,
title="News as a Form of Knowledge: A Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge",
journal="American journal of sociology",
year="1940",
author="Park, Robert E.",
volume="45",
number="5",
pages="669-686",
abstract="Following James's categories, &quot;knowledge about&quot; is formal knowledge; &quot;acquaintance with&quot; is unsystematic, intuitive knowledger or &quot;common sense.&quot; When the above are regarded as being points on a continuum, news also has a point characteristic of its transient and ephemeral quality. The extent to which news circulates determines the extent to which the members of a society participate in its political action. News is &quot;something that will make people talk,&quot; tends to have the character of a public document, and is characteristically limited to events that bring about sudden and decisive changes. Exclusive attention to some things inhibits responses to others resulting in a limitation of the range and character of the news to which a society will respond collectively or individually. The function of news is to orient man and society in an actual world.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-9602",
doi="10.1086/218445",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/218445"
}