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

• Autore: Arno Andrew
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2301/4
• Soggetto topico: Social conflict in mass media; Discourse analysis - Social aspects; Mass media - Social aspects; Mass media and anthropology
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Alarming reports
• ISBN: 0-85745-445-5; 1-282-62774-0; 9786612627743; 1-84545-915-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826253103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology of media ; ; v. 1.