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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826253103321

Autore

Arno Andrew

Titolo

Alarming reports : communicating conflict in the daily news / / Andrew Arno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

0-85745-445-5

1-282-62774-0

9786612627743

1-84545-915-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Anthropology of media ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

302.2301/4

Soggetti

Social conflict in mass media

Discourse analysis - Social aspects

Mass media - Social aspects

Mass media and anthropology

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 (p. [191]-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

News and the anthropology of conflict communication -- The dark side of the media: news as control communication -- Two theories of news: the civic model and the conflict discourse systems model -- The news act: news analysis and semiotic theory -- News and law as conflict communication systems -- News in extra-textual terrain -- Policy talk: in law, on the street, and on television -- Order, disorder, and the news media in western society: whose side are they on?

Sommario/riassunto

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