"The Anthropology of News and Journalism" is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective - as a form of cultural meaning - making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and ethnographic methods provide powerful insights for analyzing case studies from around the world. Essays by leading scholars explore communities of professional and nonprofessional journalists. They describe news-making processes ranging from the local to the global digital environment, as well as how news is disseminated and received in a variety of cultural settings. Contributors are S. Elizabeth Bird, Amahl Bishara, Dominic C. Boyer, Dorle Drackle, Zeynep Devrim Gursel, Jennifer Hasty, Joseph C. Manzella, Kerry McCallum, Mark Pedelty, Mark Allen Peterson, Ursula Rao, Adrienne Russell, Christina Schwenkel, Jonathan Skinner, Debra Spitulnik, Maria D. Vesperi, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, and Leon I. Yacher.
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"A thoughtful, persuasive, necessary, and long overdue tracking of the intersection connecting journalism and anthropology." Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania "Extends the dialogue between anthropology and journalism into fruitful realms, focusing as it does on news in particular, rather than broader issues involving the mass media." Michael Evans, School of Journalism, Indiana University
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978-0-253-35369-6 (9780253353696)
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Contents; Acknowledgments Introduction: The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Why Now? / S. Elizabeth Bird Part 1. Ethnography of News Production 1. News Production, Ethnography, and Power: On the Challenges of Newsroom-Centricity / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen; 2. U.S. Newsworld: The Rule of Text and Everyday Practices of Editing the World / Zeynep Devrim Gursel; 3. Covering the Barrier in Bethlehem: The Production of Sympathy and the Reproduction of Difference / Amahl Bishara; 4. News and Myth in Venezuela: The Press and the Chavez Revolution / Joseph C. Manzella and Leon I. Yacher; 5. "The Camera Was My Weapon": Reporting and Representing War in Socialist Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel; 6. Empowerment through Local News Making: Studying the Media/Public Interface in India / Ursula Rao; 7. Mount Chance, Montserrat, and the Media: Global British Journalism under Local Fire / Jonathan Skinner; 8. Journalism as Fieldwork: Propaganda, Complicity, and the Ethics of Anthropology / Jennifer Hasty Part 2. News Practices in Everyday Life 9. News and Local Talk: Conversations about the "Crisis of Indigenous Violence" in Australia / Kerry McCallum; 10. Getting the News in New Delhi: Newspaper Literacies in an Indian Mediascape / Mark Allen Peterson; 11. Personal News and the Price of Public Service: An Ethnographic Window into the Dynamics of Production and Reception in Zambian State Radio / Debra Spitulnik; 12. Gossip and Resistance: Local News Media in Transition: A Case Study from the Alentejo, Portugal / Dorle Drackle; 13. Musical News: Popular Music in Political Movements / Mark Pedelty Part 3. News in the Era of New Media 14. Making (Sense of) News in the Era of Digital Information / Dominic C. Boyer; 15. When Common Sense No Longer Holds: The Shifting Locus of News Production in the United States / Maria D. Vesperi; 16. Salon.com and New-Media Professional Journalism Culture / Adrienne Russell Works Cited; List of Contributors; Index
