The Sociology of News

Author: Michael Schudson
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393912876
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
A personal, trenchant, and comprehensive account of the contemporary news media. The Sociology of News reviews and synthesizes not only what is happening to journalism but also what is happening to the scholarly understanding of journalism. In the Second Edition, each chapter of the book has been updated to account for the radical changes that have reshaped the news industry over the last decade. With a new chapter on the sharp contraction of the news business in the United States since 2007, The Sociology of News examines journalism as a social institution and analyzes the variety of forces and factors-economic, technological, political, cultural, organizational-that shape the news media today.

The Sociology of News

Author: Michael Schudson
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393975130
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Michael Schudson treats soberly and skeptically a great deal of what passes for wisdom about the press in popular opinion, academic research, and journalists own self-understanding. The book s ultimate objective is not to settle controversies involving the press, but to define them and to characterize the role that news institutions play in the formation of modern public consciousness. The Sociology of News is part of the Contemporary Societies series"

Discovering The News

Author: Michael Schudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 0786723084
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective “news” was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike that newspapers must be objective still lives on.

The Sociology of Journalism

Author: Brian McNair
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849662703
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
The Sociology of Journalism explores the social consequences of journalistic activity, the roles journalism plays in a liberal democracy and how technology has affected journalistic practices.

The Sociology of Journalism

Author: Brian McNair
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340706169
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Journalism is a privileged cultural form. It is the main source of our knowledge about the world and our place in it, and the point at which the individual and the social worlds meet. Referring to cases from both the US and UK, including the White House sex scandals and the death of Diana, this book examines the various factors involved in the making of contemporary journalism, including economic and political pressures, changes in the technology of news gathering and production, and the growing role of sources and "source strategies." The text analyzes how such factors come to exert influence on the form, content, and style of journalism, and reviews current approaches to the sociological impact of journalism on individuals, groups, and organizations.

Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press

Author: Michael Schudson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745658814
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson. Focusing on the U.S. media but seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his understanding of news as at once a story-telling and fact-centered practice to bear on a variety of controversies about what public knowledge today is and what it should be. Should experts have a role in governing democracies? Is news melodramatic or is it ironic – or is it both at different times? In the title essay, Schudson even suggests that journalism serves the interests of free expression and democracy best when it least lives up to the demands of media critics for deep thought and analysis; passion for the sensational event may be news at its democratically most powerful. Lively, provocative, unconventional, and deeply informed by a rich understanding of journalism’s history, this work collects the best of Schudson’s recent writings, including several pieces published here for the first time.

The Handbook of Political Sociology

Author: Thomas Janoski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139443579
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844

Book Description
This Handbook provides a complete survey of the vibrant field of political sociology. Part I explores the theories of political sociology. Part II focuses on the formation, transitions, and regime structure of the state. Part III takes up various aspects of the state that respond to pressures from civil society.

Media Sociology

Author: Silvio Waisbord
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745684076
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description
Where is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely collection on media sociology. Sociology was fundamental in defining the analytical boundaries of early media studies, from the study of news and communities to media effects and public opinion, in the first half of the last century. Since then, media sociology has experienced significant changes that have led to new theoretical questions and thematic priorities. This book aims to reassess the past and present relationship between media studies and sociology. With original contributions from leading scholars, Media Sociology: A Reappraisal examines the significance of sociology for the study of media economics, industries, news, audiences, journalism, and digital technologies, and the links between media and race, gender, and class. As a whole, this much-needed volume takes a retrospective view to trace the evolution of media sociology and assess current research directions.

The Sociology of Journalism and the Press

Author: Harry Christian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description

The News

Author: Alain de Botton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241967384
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - an accessible and eye-opening exploration of our relationship with 'the news' 'His gift is to prompt us to think about how we live and how we might change things' The Times 'De Botton analyses modern society with great charm, learning and humour. His remedies come as a welcome relief' Daily Mail 'Like all classic de Botton, there are plenty of insightful observations here, peppered with some psychology, a dash of philosophy, a big dollop of commonsense' Scotsman 'The news' occupies a range of manic and peculiar positions in our lives. We invest it with an authority and importance which used to be the preserve of religion - but what does it do for us? Mixing current affairs with philosophical reflections, de Botton offers a brilliant illustrated guide to the precautions we should take before venturing anywhere near the news and the 'noise' it generates. Witty and global in reach, The News will ensure you'll never look at reports of a celebrity story or political scandal in quite the same way again.