| Description |
xiv, 535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: a framework for thinking about news. The sociology of news production / Michael Schudson -- Has communication explained journalism? / Barbie Zelizer -- Professional mass communicators / James S. Ettema, D. Charles Whitney with Daniel B. Wackman -- News as social production: selecting news : the individual gatekeeper. A new gatekeeping model / Pamela J. Shoemaker -- The "gate keeper" : a case study in the selection of news / David Manning White -- Ms. Gates takes over : an updated version of a 1949 case study / Glen L. Baske -- Refining the gatekeeping metaphor for local television news / Dan Berkowitz -- Structure and constraints on community newspaper gatekeepers / G.A. Donohue, C.N. Olien, P.J. Tichenor -- Organizing news : news as a workplace product. Social control in the newsroom : a functional analysis / Warren Breed -- News organizations : conflict as a crafted cultural norm / Charles R. Bantz -- News reporting and professionalism : some constraints on the reporting of the news / John Soloski -- Science writers at work / Sharon Dunwoody -- Professionalizing news : news as journalists' norms and routines. Making news by doing work : routinizing the unexpected / Gary Tuchman -- News as purposive behavior : on the strategic use of routine events, accidents and scandals / Harvey Molotoch, Marilyn Lester -- News and nonevents : making the visible invisible / Mark Fishman -- Routines and the making of oppositional news / Nina Eliasoph |
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Selling news : news as economic entity. Boundaries of journalistic autonomy / J. Herbert Altschull -- The news factory / Charles R. Bantz, Suzanne McCorkle, Roberta C. Baade -- The first stage of news production : learning what's happening / John H. McManus -- The competitive ethos in television newswork / Matthew C. Ehrlich -- News as text: Telling news : news as familiar story. Mythic elements in television news / Robert Rutherford Smith -- Myth, chronicle and story : exploring the narrative qualities of news / S. Elizabeth Bird, Robert W. Dardenne -- When technology fails : the drama of airline crashes in network television news / Richard C. Vincent, Bryan K. Crow, Dennis K. Davis -- Non-routine news and newswork : exploring what-a-story / Dan Berkowitz -- The rape of Mike Tyson : race, the press and symbolic types / Jack Lule -- Ideology and news : news as social power. Journalists as interpretive communities / Barbie Zelizer -- The news paradigm and the ideology of objectivity : a socialist at the Wall street journal / Stephen D. Reese -- News of battering / Marian Meyers -- Press rites and race relations : a study of mass-mediated ritual / James Stewart Ettema -- Science, technology and risk coverage of a community conflict / Cynthia-Lous Coleman |
| Summary |
The book then closes with an epilogue offering carefully crafted, yet concise examples of how concepts can be applied to study news from a socially-oriented perspective |
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What is news? Why does news turn out like it does? Social Meanings of News takes on these deceptively simple questions through an essential collection of classic and contemporary studies by leaders in the field of mass communication. Rather than applying a journalist's viewpoint to answer the questions, the book starts from the premise that news is a human construction shaped by the social world from which it emerges. In order to bridge the book's multiple methodologies and varied research approaches, Editor Dan Berkowitz introduces a conceptual scheme based on level of analysis and research paradigm. Each of the following six sections begins with an overview to help the student glean key concepts and understand their implications |
| Analysis |
Journalism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Text in English |
| Subject |
Journalism -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Berkowitz, Daniel A. (Daniel Allen), editor
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| LC no. |
96051208 |
| ISBN |
0761900756 |
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0761900764 |
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9780761900757 |
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9780761900764 |
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