Overview

Over the years it has been frequently remarked that journalism is at a crossroads - indeed so often that it risks sounding somewhat cliched - yet there is every indication that its very forms, practices and institutions are being decisively transformed, with startling implications. Accordingly, the principal aim of this book is to help provide the basis for new dialogues to emerge regarding journalism today, as well as about where it may be heading tomorrow. Journalism: Critical Issues poses a series of important questions afresh, questions deserving of much greater attention than they have typically received to date. Each of the contributors seeks to challenge conventional ways of thinking about the 'critical issue' at stake in their respective chapter. In so doing, it is their intention to further our understanding, but also to encourage future explorations with the potential to revitalise journalism studies. In adopting this approach, it is hoped that the book will make for a lively, argumentative (in the best sense of the word) and engaging intervention.

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Author:   Stuart Allan
Publisher:   Open University Press
Imprint:   Open University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   1.030kg
ISBN:  

9780335214846

ISBN 10:   0335214843
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   16 January 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction; Hidden in Plain Sight: Journalism's Critical Issues; Part I: Journalism's Histories; Intimately Intertwined in the Most Public Way: Celebrity and Journalism; Race, Ideology and Journalism: Black Power and Television News; The 'Gender Matters' Debate in Journalism: Lessons from the Front; Journalism Ethics: Towards an Orwellian Critique? News on the Web: The Emerging Forms and Practices of Online Journalism; Part II: Journalism and Democracy; Is There a Democratic Deficit in US and UK Journalism?; Active Citizen or Coach Potato? Journalism and Public Opinion; In Defense of 'Thick' Journalism: Or How Television Journalism Can Be Good For Us; Fourth Estate or Fan Club?; Sports Journalism Engages the Popular; McJournalism: The Local Press and the McDonaldization Thesis; The Emerging Chaos of Global News Culture; Part III: Journalism's Realities Journalism Through the Camera's Eye; Mighty Dread: Journalism and Moral Panics; Communication or Spin?; Source - Media Relations in Science Journalism; Risk Reporting: Why Can't They Ever Get it Right?; News Talk: Interaction in the Broadcast News Interview; 'A Fresh Peach is Easier to Bruise': Children and Traumatic News; Part IV: Journalism and the Politics of Othering; Talking War: How Journalism Responded to the Events of 9/11; Banal Journalism: The Centrality of the 'Us-Them' Binary in News Discourse; Racialised 'Othering': The Representation of Asylum Seekers in the News Media; Women in the Boyzone: Gender, News and Herstory; Gendered News Practices: Examining Experiences of Women Journalists in Different National Contexts; Part V: Journalism and the Public Interest; Subterfuge as Public Service: Investigative Journalism as Idealized Journalism; Opportunity or Threat?; The BBC, Investigative Journalism and the Hutton Report, Journalism, Media Conglomerates and the Federal Communications Commission; News in the Global Public Space; Journalism and the War in Iraq.

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Stuart Allan is Reader in the School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol. He is the author of News Culture (Open University Press, 1999; second edition, 2004) and Media, Risk and Science (Open University Press, 2002). His previous collections include, with co-editor Barbie Zelizer, Journalism After September 11 (Routledge, 2002) and Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (Routledge, 2004). He is the editor of the 'Issues in Cultural and Media Studies' book series for Open University Press, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals TEXT (Mouton de Gruyter), Time & Society (Sage) and Space and Culture (Sage). Alison Anderson teaches Sociology at University of Plymouth. Olga Guedes Bailey is a journalist, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts at Liverpool John Moores University, England. Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor of Communication at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Michael Bromley is Professor of Journalism at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Cynthia Carter teaches in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. Simon Cottle is Director, Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne. Chas Critcher is Professor of Communications at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Matthew David teaches Sociology at University of Plymouth. Maire Messenger Davies is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Media Research in the School of Media & Performing Arts, University of Ulster at Coleraine. Bob Franklin is Professor of Media Communications in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. Robert A. Hackett is Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Ian Hutchby is Reader in the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University, West London, England. Richard Keeble is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. Justin Lewis is Professor of Communication at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Minelle Mahtani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. P. David Marshall is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. Brian McNair is Professor of Journalism and Communication at Strathclyde University. Martin Montgomery teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where he is Reader in English Studies and Director of the Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies. Alan Petersen teaches Sociology at University of Plymouth. Susanna Hornig Priest is Director of Research for the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Jane Rhodes is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and an Affiliated Associate Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Karen Ross is Reader in Mass Communication at Coventry University, England and visiting professor at the School of Politics, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland (2001-2004). David Rowe teaches Media and Cultural Studies and is Director of the Cultural Industries and Practices Research Centre (CIPS) at The University of Newcastle, Australia. Prasun Sonwalkar teaches journalism studies at the School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol. Linda Steiner teaches journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Howard Tumber is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences, City University, London. Ingrid Volkmer is based at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen teaches in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.

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