Alarming reports : communicating conflict in the daily news / Andrew Arno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arno.

Contributor:

Andrew.

Series:

Anthropology of media ; v. 1.

Anthropology of media ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict in mass media.

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media and anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News as a fundamental social process comes into being not when an event takes place or when a report of the event is created but when that report becomes news to someone. As it moves off the page into the community, news discovers - through its interpretations - its reality in the lives of the consumers. T

Contents:

News and the anthropology of conflict communication

The dark side of the media: news as control communication

Two theories of news: the civic model and the conflict discourse systems model

The news act: news analysis and semiotic theory

News and law as conflict communication systems

News in extra-textual terrain

Policy talk: in law, on the street, and on television

Order, disorder, and the news media in western society: whose side are they on?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and index.

ISBN:

1-83695-848-X

0-85745-445-5

1-282-62774-0

9786612627743

1-84545-915-6

OCLC:

645100864