Reporting cultures on 60 minutes : missing the Finnish line in an American newscast / Donal Carbaugh and Michael Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carbaugh, Donal A., author.

Berry, Michael, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Finnish

Subjects (All):

60 minutes (Television program).

Manners and customs.

Press coverage.

Finland--In mass media.

Finland.

Mass media--United States.

Mass media.

United States.

Finland--Foreign public opinion, American.

Finland--Social life and customs--Press coverage.

Physical Description:

xvii, 115 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Reporting cultures on sixty minutes

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Language Note:

In English with excerpts translated into Finnish language.

Summary:

This work delves into the act of reporting on different cultures as a means of exploring our own. The way culture is presented to the media highlights various international and intercultural dynamics, as well as the complexity involved in reporting from a cultural standpoint. Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes is a study covering the journalistic practice of reporting culture by examining "Tango Finlandia," a broadcast report on Finnish culture produced by the American television news magazine 60 Minutes. It covers the journalistic practice of reporting culture broadly by looking specifically at Finns and Americans reporting about their respective homelands and about the other's culture and social interactions. Unique in its content and approach, this volume: Demonstrates how reports are constructed as deeply cultural forms, couched in points of view derived from one's discursive habits and their meanings. Analyzes reporting done in professional practice/journalism as well as in common social routine. Offers a way through the process that can move reporting on culture from a self-reflective mirror to opening a window onto another cultural world. Scholars and students in communication, intercultural/international studies, and related areas will find much to consider in this work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cultural worlds and the illusion of a singular text

Tango Finlandia: from "60 minutes" to cultural discourses

Cultural discourses in Tango Finlandia: some initial observations (with an American accent)

A popular UsAmerican discourse about Finns as others

A popular Finnish discourse: first impressions

Enlarging the cultural discourse: coding Finnish "quietude" in everyday contexts

Making the process explicit: contrasting discourses and cultural inversions

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138191044

1138191043

9781138191051

1138191051

OCLC:

965140254

Publisher Number:

40026618956