Published: 2025-05-17

Media, politics and science – on the subject of relationships that are obvious and obscure at the same time

Jan P. Hudzik
Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies
Section: Pedagogy-Science-Media
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/sk.5871

Abstract

This article diagnoses the decline of criticism – and the triumph of the positivist orientation in the field of social sciences. The text is divided into six parts – the research proceeds in two directions, so to speak. On the one hand (in the first two parts, and the fourth devoted entirely to critical reflection), the author draws on certain elements from the history of the theory of science, the philosophy of culture and the theory of media, while on the other hand (part three) he takes up – analyzes and comments – specific institutional texts/documents designed to describe and regulate the relationship between media and politics (the example of the BBC). The fifth and sixth parts interpret (with the close reading method) and deconsruct selected scholarly articles based on empirical research on Polish media material on the topic under discussion. All this together is intended to lead to an answer to the key question in this article: why the decline of criticism in the social sciences? What are the causes and consequences of this?

Keywords:

media, politics, social science, metatheory, critical theory, media criticism, objectivity, bias

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Hudzik, J. P. (2025). Media, politics and science – on the subject of relationships that are obvious and obscure at the same time. Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies, (13), 47–75. https://doi.org/10.25167/sk.5871

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