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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157817303321

Autore

Eglin Peter

Titolo

The Montreal massacre : a story of membership categorization analysis / / Peter Eglin and Stephen Hester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-280-92573-6

9786610925735

0-88920-820-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HesterStephen

Disciplina

070.4/493641523/0820971428

Soggetti

Crime and the press - Ontario

Journalism - Social aspects - Ontario

Journalism - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Ethnomethodology, Crime, and the Media; PART ONE: STORIES OF THE MONTREAL MASSACRE; PART TWO: THE MONTREAL MASSACRE AND MORAL ORDER; APPENDIX; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis adopts an ethnomethodological viewpoint to analyze how the murder of women by a lone gunman at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal was presented to the public via media publication over a two-week period in 1989. All that the public came to know and understand of the murders, the murderer, and the victims was constituted in the description and commentaries produced by the media. What the murders became, therefore, was an expression of the methods used to describe and evaluate them, and central to these methods was