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Social Meanings of News contains classic new s studies which lead the reader to reflect on the nature of news, and why it turns out the way it does. '

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Author:   Daniel A. Berkowitz ,  Daniel A. Berkowitz
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.850kg
ISBN:  

9780761900757

ISBN 10:   0761900756
Pages:   549
Publication Date:   25 April 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION Why a ′Social Meanings of News′ Perspective? PART ONE: A FRAMEWORK FOR THINKING ABOUT NEWS The Sociology of News Production - Michael Schudson Has Communication Explained Journalism? - Barbie Zelizer Professional Mass Communicators - James S Ettema, D Charles Whitney, and Daniel B Wackman SECTION TWO: NEWS AS SOCIAL PRODUCTION PART TWO: SELECTING NEWS: THE INDIVIDUAL GATE KEEPER A New Gatekeeping Model - Pamela J Shoemaker The Gate Keeper - David Manning White A Case Study in the Selection of News Ms Gates Takes Over - Glenn L Bleske Refining the Gatekeeping Metaphor for Local Television News - Dan A Berkowitz Structure and Constraints on Community Newspaper Gatekeepers - G A Donohue, C N Olien, and P J Tichenor PART THREE: ORGANIZING NEWS: NEWS AS A WORKPLACE PRODUCT Social Control in the News Room - Warren Breed A Functional Analysis News Organizations - Charles R Bantz Conflict as a Crafted Cultural Norm News Reporting and Professionalism - John Soloski Some Constraints on the Reporting of the News Science Writers at Work - Sharon Dunwoody PART FOUR: PROFESSIONALIZING NEWS: NEWS AS JOURNALISTS′ NORMS AND ROUTINES Making News by Doing Work - Gaye Tuchman Routinizing the Unexpected News as Purposive Behavior - Harvey Molotch and Marilyn Lester On the Strategic Use of Routine Events, Accidents, and Scandal News and Non-Events - Mark Fishman Making the Visible Invisible Routines and the Making of Oppositional News - Nina Eliasoph PART FIVE: SELLING NEWS: NEWS AS ECONOMIC ENTITY Boundaries of Journalistic Autonomy - J Herbert Altschull The News Factory - Charles R Bantz, Suzanne McCorkle and Roberta C Baade The First Stage of News Production - John McManus Learning What′s Happening The Competitive Ethos in Television Newswork - Matthew C Ehrlich SECTION THREE: NEWS AS TEXT PART SIX: TELLING NEWS: NEWS AS FAMILIAR STORY Mythic Elements in Television News - Robert Rutherford Smith Myth, Chronicle, and Story - S Elizabeth Bird and Robert W Dardenne Exploring the Narrative Qualities of News When Technology Fails - Richard C Vincent, Bryan K Crow and Dennis K Davis The Drama of Airline Crashes in Network Television News Non-Routine News and Newswork - Dan A Berkowitz Exploring a What-A-Story The Rape of Mike Tyson - Jack Lule Race, the Press, and Symbolic Types PART SEVEN: IDEOLOGY AND NEWS: NEWS AS SOCIAL POWER Journalists as Interpretive Communities - Barbara Zelizer The News Paradigm and the Ideology of Objectivity - Stephen D Reese A Socialist at the Wall Street Journal News of Battering - Marian Meyers Press Rites and Race Relations - James Stewart Ettema A Study of Mass-Mediated Ritual Science, Technology, and Risk Coverage of a Community Conflict - Cynthia-Lou Coleman PART EIGHT: EPILOGUE: APPLYING THE TOOLS TO STUDY NEWS

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