Audience feedback in the news media / Bill Reader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reader, Bill, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Public opinion.

Mass media.

Press--Public opinion.

Press.

Journalism--Public opinion.

Journalism.

Physical Description:

viii, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

Audience comments, the spice of history

"Packets of letters": audience comments before freedom of the press

"A sure sign of liberty, and a cause of it": audience feedback and the emergence of the free press

Commodification of comments: professional bias and gatekeeping of letters to the editor

Professional journalism's transformation of "a quaint tradition"

Concerning "crackpots": the media's love-hate relationship with feedback

"In my opinion ...": commenting as individual agency

"We, the people ...": commenting as collective action

Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an age without fences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138775336

1138775339

OCLC:

886491964