Author : David L. Altheide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Journalism
ISBN : OCLC:801875035
Creating Reality
David L. Altheide
Creating Reality How Tv News Distorts Events
Creating Reality How Tv News Distorts Events Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Creating Reality How Tv News Distorts Events book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Marginal Conventions
Clinton Sanders
Author : Clinton Sanders
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0879724900
Marginal Conventions by Clinton Sanders Pdf
Marginal Conventions contains twelve essays by social scientists centering around the general connections between popular culture and deviant behavior. In addition to speaking to the commonsensical view that exposure to representations of misbehavior makes people misbehave, this collection focuses on media presentations of crime, violence, and villainy; the utility of deviance theme for societal elites; and the "taste publics" centered around disreputable products and rituals.
Making Local News
Phyllis Kaniss
Author : Phyllis Kaniss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226423484
Making Local News by Phyllis Kaniss Pdf
Why do crimes and accidents earn more news coverage than development and policy issues affecting thousands of people? Filled with revealing interviews with both journalists and city officials, Making Local News is the first comprehensive look at how the economic motives of media owners, professional motives of journalists, and the strategies of media-wise politicians shape the news we see and hear, thereby influencing urban policy. "Making Local News by Phyllis Kaniss . . . is significant. . . . If we can continue to get smarter about that which journalism leaves out or distorts in its coverage of politics, we may eventually get smarter about politics itself."—Mitchell Stephens, The Philadelphia Inquirer View "A convincing analysis of the factors and forces which color how and why local issues do, or do not, become newsworthy." —Michael H. Ebner, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This work serves as a reminder of the importance of a medium that is often overlooked until economic realities threaten its very existence." —Choice "Kaniss is truly a pioneer in the study of local news."—Susan Herbst, Contemporary Sociology
Image, Reality and Media Construction
Fengmin Yan
Author : Fengmin Yan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813290761
Image, Reality and Media Construction by Fengmin Yan Pdf
This book explores how news media construct social issues and events and thereby convey certain perceptions within the scope of framing theory. By operationalizing media framing as a process of interpretation through defining problem, diagnosing causes, making moral judgments and suggesting solutions, the book proposes a systematic and transparent approach to images in news discourse. Based on a frame analysis, it examines how German news media framed a list of China-related issues and events, and thereby conveyed particular beliefs and opinions on this country. Moreover, it investigates whether there were dominant patterns of interpretation and the extent to which diverse views were evident by comparing two major daily newspapers with opposite political orientations - the FAZ and the taz. Motivated by the relationship between image and reality, the book explores image formation and persistence from media construction of meaning and human cognitive complexity in perceiving others. Media select certain issues and events and then interpret them from particular perspectives. A variety of professional and non-professional factors behind news making may result in biased representations. In addition, from a social psychological perspective, inaccurate perceptions of foreign cultures may arise from categorical thinking, biased processing of stimulus information, intergroup conflicts of interest and in-group favoritism. Accordingly, whether media coverage deviates from reality is not the main concern of this book; instead, it emphasizes the underlying logics upon which the conclusions and judgments were drawn. It therefore contributes to a rational understanding of Western discourse and holds practical implications for both Chinese public diplomacy and a more constructive role of news media in promoting the understanding of others.
Attitudes and Opinions
Stuart Oskamp,P. Wesley Schultz
Author : Stuart Oskamp,P. Wesley Schultz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135618612
Attitudes and Opinions by Stuart Oskamp,P. Wesley Schultz Pdf
Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches, widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and polling, have stimulated a new generation of attitude scholars. This extensively revised edition captures this excitement, while remaining grounded in scholarly research. Attitudes and Opinions, 3/e maintains one of the main goals of the original edition--breadth of coverage. The book thoroughly reviews both implicit and explicit measures of attitudes, the structure and function of attitudes, the nature of public opinion and polling, attitude formation, communication of attitudes and opinions, and the relationship between attitudes and behaviors, as well as theories and research on attitude change. Over 2,000 references support the book's scientific integrity. The authors' second goal is to demonstrate the relevance of the topic to people's lives. Subsequently, the second part of the book examines many of the topics and research findings that are salient in the world today--political and international attitudes (including terrorism), voting behavior, racism and prejudice, sexism and gender roles, and environmental attitudes. This thoroughly revised new edition features: *an entirely new chapter on implicit measures attitudes; *a new chapter on environmental attitudes; *updated opinion poll data throughout the book; *additional material on time trends in attitudes about many issues; and *expanded, updated sections on international attitudes reflecting the events of 9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Attitudes and Opinions' broad and interdisciplinary perspective makes this an ideal text in courses on attitudes, public opinion, survey research, or persuasion, taught in a variety of departments including psychology, communication, marketing, sociology, and political science.
Making News in India
Somnath Batabyal
Author : Somnath Batabyal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317809722
Making News in India by Somnath Batabyal Pdf
Post-liberalisation India has witnessed a dramatic growth of the television industry as well as on-screen images of the glitz and glamour of a vibrant, ‘shining’ India. Through a detailed ethnographic study of Star News and Star Ananda involving interviews, observations and content analysis, this book explores the milieu of 24-hour private news channels in India today. It offers insightful glimpses into the workings of one of the mightiest news corporations in the world and its ability to manufacture everyday reality for its audiences. Based on fieldwork in Mumbai and Kolkata, this study not only provides a detailed description of the television newsroom, its rituals and rhythms, but ventures beyond it to investigate how editorial and corporate strategies converge increasingly in an industry driven by profit. Through analysing how TRPs work to produce a non-inclusive idea of the ‘audience’ and examining hundreds of hours of news content, the book explores how news channels construct a vision of nationhood and of a successful and vibrant economy that caters primarily to the needs of the resurgent Indian middle class. While it will be of particular interest to media and cultural studies scholars and students, and to journalists and media professionals in general, this lively, engaging book also aims to give the general reader the wherewithal to analyse and critique the continuous barrage of 24-hour news television today.
An Analysis of Thinking and Research About Qualitative Methods
W. James Potter
Author : W. James Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136688676
An Analysis of Thinking and Research About Qualitative Methods by W. James Potter Pdf
Written for social science scholars who want to learn more about the qualitative way of thinking, this book addresses the full continuum of issues about the qualitative methodologies. At one end of that continuum are the deeply philosophical concerns of ontology and epistemology. At the other -- concrete -- end of that continuum are the practical issues of what is considered evidence: How does one go about gathering evidence? Where, when, and how does one analyze evidence? What are the alternative ways of dealing with tone and voice in writing qualitative research? The attention to practical, concrete issues makes this book useful as a handbook providing a great deal of vital information to scholars who want a guide to making decisions as they navigate their research questions through the qualitative realm. Uniquely qualified to write such a book, Potter has earned PhDs in both qualitative methods (with a concentration in linguistics and field studies) and in quantitative methods (with a concentration in social science theory and statistics). The book is not an ideological argument that glorifies one system of thinking while attempting to persuade the reader that other systems of thinking are bankrupt. Rather, the book presents a respectful, balanced analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the qualitative approach. The book builds to a controversial final chapter entitled "Is Convergence a Possibility?" in which Potter synthesizes a conclusion from his analysis of a wide range of qualitative studies across three broad topic areas -- text focused research, audience focused research, and institution focused research -- and across seven major qualitative methodologies -- ethnography, ethnomethodology, reception study, ecological psychology, symbolic interactionism, cultural studies, and textual analysis. His conclusion is that not only is there a possibility of a convergence between qualitative and quantitative approaches, but that the convergence has already happened. The book includes an appendix in which 95 books and articles using the qualitative approach are abstracted and analyzed to illustrate key points of methodology and methods. It also includes subject and author indexes.
Global Television And The Politics Of The Seoul Olympics
James F. Larson,Heung-soo Park
Author : James F. Larson,Heung-soo Park
Publisher : James F. Larson
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0813316944
Global Television And The Politics Of The Seoul Olympics by James F. Larson,Heung-soo Park Pdf
Social Meanings of News
Daniel A. Berkowitz
Author : Daniel A. Berkowitz
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761900764
Social Meanings of News by Daniel A. Berkowitz Pdf
This Reader presents classic news studies representing several methodologies and approaches to guide students in their initial exploration into the topics.
Making the News
Paschal Preston
Author : Paschal Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134043507
Making the News by Paschal Preston Pdf
Making the News provides a cross-national perspective on key features of journalism and news-making cultures and the changing media landscape in contemporary Europe. . Focusing on the key trends, practices and issues in contemporary journalism and news cultures, Paschal Preston maps the major contours of change as well as the broader industrial, organizational, institutional and cultural factors shaping journalism practices over the past two decades. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on journalism trends and newsmaking practices within a single country, Making the News draws on unique, cross-national research examining current journalism practices and related newsmaking cultures in eleven West, Central and East European countries, including in-depth interviews with almost 100 senior journalists and subsequent workshop discussions with other interest groups Making the News links reviews and discussions of the existing literature to original research engaging with the views and experiences of journalists working at the ‘coal face’ of contemporary newsmaking practices, to provide an original study and useful student text.
Reality Fictions
Thomas W. Benson,Carolyn Anderson
Author : Thomas W. Benson,Carolyn Anderson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0809324385
Reality Fictions by Thomas W. Benson,Carolyn Anderson Pdf
Rather than write briefly about each of the many documentary films Wiseman has made over the past 20 years, Benson (rhetoric and communication arts and sciences, Pennsylvania State U.) and Anderson (communication, U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) choose a few representative examples. They interpret the films, look at the rhetorical structures, and explore the people and processes. The first edition was published in 1989. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Prime Time Activism
Charlotte Ryan
Author : Charlotte Ryan
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mass Media
ISBN : 0896084019
Prime Time Activism by Charlotte Ryan Pdf
An essential primer for all grassroots activists, this book demystifies the media in such a way that the reader-activist gains a framework for understanding the propaganda industry of the United States.
Encyclopaedia of Propaganda
Robert Cole
Author : Robert Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317471981
Encyclopaedia of Propaganda by Robert Cole Pdf
The Encyclopedia of Propaganda examines all aspects of propaganda through history, and is organized in an A to Z format. The set defines the arenas in which propaganda is used such as politics, war, advertising and media; pinpoints the political systems in which it is used, such as Nazism, Communism and McCarthyism; and describes notable progenitors of propaganda and their works, including Hitler and "Mein Kampf", Machiavelli and "The Prince", Sun Tzu and "The Art of War", and Plato and "The Republic". "The Encyclopedia of Propaganda" also examines noteworthy individuals who have employed propaganda to further their own agenda, including Walt Disney, Fidel Castro, Jane Fonda, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Saddam Hussein, Rush Limbaugh and Eleanor Roosevelt. Organizations which have utilized propaganda in a systematic fashion are also included, among them the Black Panther Party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. This well organized, easy-to-use reference should be a valuable research tool for students of world history, politics and literature.
Why Busing Failed
Matthew F. Delmont
Author : Matthew F. Delmont
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520284241
Why Busing Failed by Matthew F. Delmont Pdf
"Busing, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Examining battles over school desegregation in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Why Busing Failed shows how school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students, and how antibusing parents and politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation. This national history of busing brings together well-known political figures such as Richard Nixon and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, with less well known figures like Boston civil rights activist Ruth Batson, Florida Governor Claude Kirk, Pontiac housewife and antibusing activist Irene McCabe, and Clay Smothers (the self-proclaimed "most conservative black man in America"). This book shows that shows that "busing" failed to more fully desegregate public schools because school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students"--Provided by publisher.
The Entertainment Functions of Television
P. H. Tannenbaum
Author : P. H. Tannenbaum
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317770398
The Entertainment Functions of Television by P. H. Tannenbaum Pdf
First published in 1980. This volume is an indirect product of the activities of the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). This is a collection of essays looking at the entertainment function of television in the United States.