The new journalism and the image‐world: Two modes of organizing experience

This essay provides a cultural analysis of the New Journalism. Two modes of New Journalism are distinguished based on their ways of constructing the relationship of image to reality, observing to living, and storytelling to experience. The two modes, designated ethnographic realism and cultural phenomenology, reflect alternative ways of responding to cultural change and organizing the experience of reporting. These approaches to understanding social reality are related to the problem of creating meaning in contemporary society.