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

• Autore: Eglin Peter
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.4/493641523/0820971428
• Soggetto topico: Crime and the press - Ontario; Journalism - Social aspects - Ontario; Journalism - Methodology
• Altri autori: HesterStephen
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Montreal massacre
• ISBN: 1-280-92573-6; 9786610925735; 0-88920-820-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157817303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II