Title page-Alarming Reports; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-News and the Anthropology of Conflic Communication; Chapter 2-The Dark Side of the Media; Chapter 3-Two Theories of News; Chapter 4-The News Act; Chapter 5-News and Law as Conflict Communication Systems; Chapter 6-News in Extra-Textual Terrain; Chapter 7-Policy Talk; Chapter 8-Order, Disorder, and the News Media in Western Society; References; Index
Summary
News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News as a fundamental social process comes into being not when an event takes place or when a report of the event is created but when that report becomes news to someone. As it moves off the page into the community, news discovers through its interpretations its reality in the lives of the consumers. T
Analysis
Discourse analysis Social aspects
Mass media Social aspects
Mass media and anthropology
Social conflict in mass media
massamedia
conflict
communicatie
communication
sociologie
sociology
antropologie
anthropology
sociale antropologie
social anthropology
sociaal conflict
social conflict
discoursanalyse
nieuws
news
Massamedia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index
