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Alarming Reports : Communicating Conflict in the Daily News / Andrew Arno’s.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology of Media ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845455798
  • 9781845459154
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. News and the Anthropology of Confl ict Communication -- 2. The Dark Side of the Media: News as Control Communication -- 3. Two Theories of News: The Civic Model and the Conflict Discourse System Model -- 4. The News Act: News Analysis and Semiotic Theory -- 5. News and Law as Conflict Communication Systems -- 6. News in Extra-Textual Terrain -- 7. Policy Talk: In Law, on the Street, and on Television -- 8. Order, Disorder, and the News Media in Western Society: Whose Side Are They On? -- 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. This book explores the path of news as it moves through the tangled labyrinth of social identities and asserted interests that lie beyond the page or screen. The language and communication-oriented study of news promises a salient area of investigation, pointing the way to an expansion, if not a redefinition of basic anthropological ideas and practices of ethnography, participant observation, and “the field” in the future of anthropological research.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. News and the Anthropology of Confl ict Communication -- 2. The Dark Side of the Media: News as Control Communication -- 3. Two Theories of News: The Civic Model and the Conflict Discourse System Model -- 4. The News Act: News Analysis and Semiotic Theory -- 5. News and Law as Conflict Communication Systems -- 6. News in Extra-Textual Terrain -- 7. Policy Talk: In Law, on the Street, and on Television -- 8. Order, Disorder, and the News Media in Western Society: Whose Side Are They On? -- References -- Index

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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. This book explores the path of news as it moves through the tangled labyrinth of social identities and asserted interests that lie beyond the page or screen. The language and communication-oriented study of news promises a salient area of investigation, pointing the way to an expansion, if not a redefinition of basic anthropological ideas and practices of ethnography, participant observation, and “the field” in the future of anthropological research.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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