What is news? Why does news turn out like it does? What factors influence thecreation, production, and dissemination of news? Cultural Meanings of News takes on these deceptively simple questions through an essential collection of seminal and contemporary studies by leaders in the fields of mass communicationand media studies. Similar in format and purpose to editor Dan Berkowitz's award-winning Social Meanings of News, this new volume represents a conceptual update, a continuation of the discourse about the nature of news and how it comes to be, moving ideas ahead from the earlier tradition of sociological approaches to the more pervasive cultural perspectives that inform understandings about news. Cultural Meanings of News provides a carefully selected set of readings, organized into thematic areas that each probe a dimension of the literature: from sociological roots to cultural perspectives; news as narrative and cultural text; newswork as cultural ritual; news as cultural myth; news and its interpretive communities; news as a source and reflection of collective memory; toward the future of news research. This text-reader provides students and scholars with first-hand exposure to cultural approaches to the study of news, while also providing an organizing framework for understanding the commonalties and differences between threads in the research The goals are to engage readers through guided immersion in the material. INDICE: Dan Berkowitz Acknowledgments / Dan Berkowitz Introducation: >FromJournalistic Roots to Cultural Perspectives / Dan Berkowitz Part 1: A Framework for Thinking About the Meanings of News / Stephen D. Reese 1. Understandingthe global journalist: A hierarchy of influences approach / Mark Deuze 2. What is journalism: Preofessional identity and ideology of journalists reconsidered / Thomas Hanitzsch 3. Deconstructing journalism culture: Toward a universaltheory / Dan Berkowitz Part 2: Cultural Practice of Journalism / Jane B. Singer 4. The socially responsible existentialist: A normative emphasis for journalists in a new media environment / Dan Berkowitz and Lyombe Eko 5. Blasphemy as sacred rite//right: 'The Mohammed cartoons affair' and maintenance of journalistic ideology / Ida Schultz 6. The journalistic gut feeling: Journalistic doxa, news habitus and orthodox news values / Frank Durham 7. Media ritual in catastrophic time: The populist turn in television coverage of Hurricane Katrina/ Dan Berkowitz Part 3: Making meaning in the Journalistic Interpretive Community / Matt Carlson 8. War journalism and the 'KIA journalist': The cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly / Kristina Riegert and Eva-Karin Olsson 9. The importance of ritual in crisis journalism / Sue Robinson 10. 'Someone's gotta bein control here': The institutionalization of online news and the creation ofshared jounalistic authority / David Ryfe 11. Broader and deeper: A study of newsroom culture in a time of change / Dan Berkowitz Part 4: Repairing the Jounalistic Paradigm / Elizabeth Blanks Hindman 12. The princess and the paparazzi: Blame, responsibility, and the media's role in the death of Diana / RussellFrank 13. 'These crowded circumstances': When pack journalists bash pack journalism / Robert L. Handley 14. Israeli image repair: Recasting the deviant actor to retell the story / Guy Berger 15. A paradigm in process: What the scapegoating of Vusi Mona signalled about South African journalism / Dan Berkowitz Part 5: News Narratives as Cultural Text / Liz Fawcett 16. Why peace journalismisn't news / Melinda B. Robins 17. 'Lost boys' and the promised land: US newspaper coverage of Sudanese refugees / James S. Ettema 18. Crafting cultural resonance: Imaginative power in everyday journalism / Barbara Barnett 19. Media in the media: Narrative and myth in the newspaper coverage of women who kill their children / Dan Berkowitz Part 6: News as Collective Memory / Jill Edy andMiglena Daradanova 20. Reporting through the lens of the past: From Challenger to Columbia / Oren Meyes 21. Memory in journalism and the memory of journalism: Israeli journalists and the constructed legacy of Haolam Hazeh / Matt Carlson 22. Making memories matter: Journalistic authority and the memorializing discourse aroung Mary McGrory and David Brinkley / Sue Robinson 23. ' We were all there': Remembering America in the anniversary coverage of Hurricane Katrina / Dan Berkowitz Epilogue: Reflecting on Cultural Meanings of News / Index / About the Editor
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-6765-5
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés