The Pattern for Cultural Development on the Basis of Dialogue Journalism

The purpose of this research is to study the quiddity of Dialogue Journalism as an important but neglected genre in Iran. The research’s theoretical foundations are based on Lev Vygotsky’s concept of the «Zone of Proximal Development» combined with Mikhail Bakhtin’s «dialogism”, Jurgen Habermas’s «communicative action» and the «public sphere» theories, Manuel Castells’s «Network Society» and Jan Servaes’s «Participatory Communication». By focusing on the above mentioned theoretical foundations, this research has designed «the pattern of cultural development on the basis of dialogue journalism». In this pattern when the media zone of proximal development is based on the «Bakhtin– Habermasian dialogue”, improves and perpetuates bi-directional, interactive and participatory communication by the mechanisms of dialogue Journalism and this kind of communication leads to the cultural development. The dialogue Journalism in the pattern, refers to the kind of journalism in which all poles of communication engage in a public, rational, critical, polyphonic and open-ended dialogue about the opinions of each other in order to achieve a mutual understanding.