Journalism Books

Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

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Book SynopsisAs Matthew Pressmanâs timely history reveals, during the turbulent 1960s and 70s the core values that held the news industry together broke apart and the distinctive characteristics of contemporary American print journalism emerged. Simply reporting the facts was no longer enough as reporters recognized a need to interpret events for their readers.Trade ReviewThe stories behind the stories are often more interesting than the stories themselves. On Press is the ultimate story behind all the stories. In tracing the evolution of news over the past half century, Matthew Pressman has produced an account that’s deeply historical and not a little troubling. In an age when the press is alternately villain or hero, Pressman serves as a kind of medicine man of journalism, telling us how we got from there to here and warning us what must change. -- Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity FairMatthew Pressman helps us understand how we came to our current, troubled media moment with his deeply researched, engagingly written history of America’s press in the 1960s and ’70s. This is an important and original contribution—and a needed one. -- Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for the Washington PostMy prayers for a new way to think about the so-called crisis over ‘trust’ in the press have been answered thanks to media scholar Matthew Pressman’s erudite new history…Pressman’s framing helps explain President Donald Trump’s broadsides against what he calls the ‘fake news’ and why measurements of trust in the news profession decline almost every time Gallup fires up a new poll. -- Jack Shafer * Politico *Pressman details…the competing pressures [that] forced journalists to fundamentally recalibrate their work, reconsidering in turn core values like objectivity…[As] Pressman argues, it was a once-in-a-century sea change that both ushered in journalism as it’s understood today and foreshadowed the press corps’ current predicament. -- David Uberti * The Nation *Pressman shows…there was a purpose behind the old ideas of ‘objectivity’ and ‘fairness.’ At their best, journalists examine questions of genuine importance and offer citizens a chance to hear competing arguments on various sides of the issues at stake. This task includes pointing out when claims are at odds with the facts. -- E. J. Dionne, Jr. * Washington Post *[A] really smart, trenchant look at the way that the news media has changed…Remarkable. -- Natalia Petrzela * Past Present podcast *I very much recommend [On Press]…It’s about the rise of explanatory reporting, the changeover from journalism as really a kind of stenography, where they’re just reprinting speeches and press releases…to more interpretive reporting…Really terrific. -- Ezra Klein * Ezra Klein Show *Well-researched, lucid, and engaging, On Press helps us understand attitudes toward the mass media (and, especially, financially strapped and embattled newspapers) in the Age of Trump. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Psychology Today *Something dramatic changed in American journalism between 1960 and 1980, claims Matthew Pressman. Instead of just a bald catalogue of what politicians and officials were doing and saying, news coverage…began to reflect a distinctive set of values…On Press explores this decisive liberal turn and its enduring impact down to today. * Times Higher Education *An original, deeply researched, and engaging examination of the fundamental changes in American journalism from the 1960s up to the rise of the digital. An indispensable work. -- Michael Schudson, author of Why Journalism Still MattersAn excellent account of where journalism has been, is now, and possibly will go in the twenty-first century. Pressman deftly demonstrates how print journalists decided that reporting the facts was no longer sufficient in an electronic age where interpretation and analysis of events were desperately needed. -- Joe Saltzman, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern CaliforniaImpressively well-researched…Presents a logical and compelling look at journalism past and present. -- Catherine Ramsdell * PopMatters *

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Book SynopsisCongress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions in office? In contrast with previous studies, which largely focused on the campaign period, he tests various hypotheses about the causes and consequences of media coverage by exploring coverage during an entire congressional session. Using three samples of local newspapers from across the country, Arnold analyzes all coverage over a two-year period--every news story, editorial, opinion column, letter, and list. First he investigates how twenty-five newspapers covered twenty-five local representatives; and next, how competing newspapers in six cities covered their corresponding legislators. Examination of an even larger sample, sixty-seven newspapers and 187 representaTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 "Arnold here does it all: he identifies important research questions, conducts extensive research to answer them, and interprets data carefully. This sophisticated and thoughtful study is the best yet of Congress and the press."--Choice "Arnold sets an ambitious goal: 'This book is the first large-scale study of how local media outlets cover members of Congress.' His ultimate success exemplifies how content analysis can illuminate a subject with empirical and systematic findings... This exploration constitutes a significant contribution to our understanding of Congress and the news media... [The book] has a timeless feel ... [which] seems to guarantee that readers will be learning from this book well into the future."--Robert Klotz, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Legislators, Journalists, and Citizens 1 2. Explaining the Volume of Newspaper Coverage 29 3. How Newspapers Cover Legislators 64 4. Legislators as Position Takers 92 5. Legislators as Policy Makers 125 6. Legislators as Candidates 156 7. How Newspapers Differ 194 8. Effects of Newspaper Coverage on Citizens 221 9. The Press and Political Accountability 244 References 265 Index 273

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Book SynopsisFrom the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only amateur authors, clumsy technologies for productTrade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2016 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association "[Magazines and the Making of America] is a work of sociology and as such it contributes to the growing literature on print culture by considering how the demography, geography, and economics of print fueled (and were fueled by) capitalism."--Choice "Magazines and the Making of America is a treasure trove for students of social movements and political history, for it chronicles the scores of movements, from anti-dueling to Indian rights to free love, that swept the nation... A bright star to guide others applying the new methods of social science to historical topics. Haveman has a penchant for coding and counting everything in sight. She tracks each broadside and circular from before the dawn of the nation, and thus we get much more than an impressionistic romp through the history of the genre. The book is chock full of figures and analyses that substantiate the argument, and the narrative is followed by well over a hundred pages of appendices and bibliography."--Frank Dobbin. Administrative Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Why Focus on Magazines? 4 Magazines, Modernization, and Community in America 5 The Modernization of America 9 Modernization and Community in America 12 The Path Forward: The Outline of This Book 15 Conclusion 22 Chapter 2 The History of American Magazines, 1741-1860 23 Magazine Origins 23 Magazine Evolution 26 Variety within and among Magazines 41 Conclusion 52 Chapter 3 The Material and Cultural Foundations of American Magazines 55 Publishing Technologies 57 Distribution Infrastructure: The Post Office 61 The Reading Public 74 Professional Authors and Copyright Law 86 Conclusion 103 Chapter 4 Launching Magazines 106 Who Founded American Magazines? 106 Why Were Magazines Founded? 127 How Did Magazines Gain Public Support? 136 Conclusion 142 Chapter 5 Religion 143 The Changing Face of American Religion 143 The Interplay between Religion and Magazines 160 Conclusion 184 Chapter 6 Social Reform 187 The Evolution of Social Reform Movements 187 Religion and Reform: The Moral Impulse 197 Magazines and Reform 201 The Press, the Pulpit, and the Antislavery Movement 212 Conclusion 221 Chapter 7 The Economy 224 Economic Development 224 Commerce and Magazines 238 Rationality and "Science" in America 245 A New American Revolution: Agriculture Becomes "Scientific" 250 Conclusion 267 Chapter 8 Conclusion 269 Appendix 1: Data and Data Sources 279 Core Data on Magazines: Sources 279 Refining the Sample: Distinguishing Magazines from Other Types of Publications 281 Measuring Magazine Attributes 284 Background Data on Magazine Founders 291 Data on Religion 294 Data on Antislavery Associations 301 Data on Social Reform Associations 303 Other Contextual Data 303 Appendix 2: Methods for Quantitative Data Analysis 307 Units of Analysis 307 Chapter 2: The History of American Magazines, 1741-1860 309 Chapter 3: The Material and Cultural Foundations of American Magazines 310 Chapter 4: Launching Magazines 319 Chapter 5: Religion 327 Chapter 6: Social Reform 335 References 343 Index 395

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2016 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""Co-Winner of the 2017 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""[Magazines and the Making of America] is a work of sociology and as such it contributes to the growing literature on print culture by considering how the demography, geography, and economics of print fueled (and were fueled by) capitalism." * Choice *"Magazines and the Making of America is a treasure trove for students of social movements and political history, for it chronicles the scores of movements, from anti-dueling to Indian rights to free love, that swept the nation. . . . A bright star to guide others applying the new methods of social science to historical topics. Haveman has a penchant for coding and counting everything in sight. She tracks each broadside and circular from before the dawn of the nation, and thus we get much more than an impressionistic romp through the history of the genre. The book is chock full of figures and analyses that substantiate the argument, and the narrative is followed by well over a hundred pages of appendices and bibliography."---Frank Dobbin., Administrative Science Quarterly"Fills a large hole in the scholarship of early American magazines, finally putting their influence on a par with the much more widely studied newspaper form."---Kevin Lerner, Journal of Magazine & New Media Research"An important reminder of print's history and influence on American culture."---Andrea McDonnell, Journal of American Culture"Make no mistake, Magazines and the Making of America is a tour de force of historical, economic, and media sociology. For its methodological rigor, for its theoretical reach, for its historical breadth and richness, this is a book that will be pondered and built upon for many years to come."---Rodney Benson, American Journal of Sociology"Haveman’s Magazines and the Making of America will remain a landmark in periodical studies. To see with her what periodicals accomplished from 1741 to 1860 may give us some confidence that they will continue to serve a vital role in the making of America."---Robert J. Scholnick, American Periodicals

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and wide-ranging critique of the Guardian's journalism and political valuesTrade Review'A lively and well-researched history and critique of Britain's best newspaper, exposing the ideological contradictions and editorial tensions which generally keep the 'Guardian' allied to a soft liberalism but shies away from radical or socialist answers to capitalism's recurring crises' -- Jonathan Steele, former Chief Foreign Correspondent for the 'Guardian''Fascinating and timely' -- Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London'A page turner - reveals the liberal establishment in all its ingloriousness, sprinkled with a few moments of integrity' -- Beverley Skeggs, Professor, Sociology, Lancaster University'Liberalism typically champions particular campaigns for social justice but distances itself from challenges to the state and economy that produces these injustices. At last a book which reveals this serious problem. A must read for all Guardian readers!' -- Hilary Wainwright, Founding Editor of 'Red Pepper' and author of 'A New Politics From the Left' (Polity Press, 2018)‘A forceful intervention’ -- ‘LSE Review of Books’Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: ‘Just the Establishment’? - Des Freedman 1. In the Wake of Peterloo? A Radical Account of the Founding of the Guardian - Des Freedman 2. The Political Economy of the Guardian - Aaron Ackerley 3. Reflections from an Editor-at-large - Gary Younge 4. Radical Moments at the Guardian - Victoria Brittain 5. The Guardian and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict - Ghada Karmi 6. The Guardian and Latin America: Pink Tides and Yellow Journalism - Alan MacLeod 7. The Origins of the Guardian Women’s Page - Hannah Hamad 8. Trans Exclusionary Radical Centrism: The Guardian, Neoliberal Feminism and the Corbyn Years - Mareile Pfannebecker and Jilly Boyce Kay 9. The Guardian and Surveillance - Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis 10. Corruption in the Fourth Estate: How the Guardian Exposed Phone Hacking and Reneged on Reform of Press Regulation - Natalie Fenton 11. The Guardian and Corbynism and Antisemitism - Justin Schlosberg 12. Guardian Journalists and Twitter Circles - Tom Mills 13. The Guardian and the Economy - Mike Berry 14. The Guardian and Brexit - Mike Wayne 15. ‘I’m not “racist” but’: Liberalism, Populism and Euphemisation in the Guardian - Katy Brown, Aurelien Monden and Aaron Winter Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline. Among the most significant changes affecting journalism worldwide is the emergence of startup culture, as more and more journalists strike out on their own. In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge combine extensive global and comparative fieldwork. Through rich case studies of journalism startups around the world, they provide deep insight into the promises and pitfalls of media entrepreneurship. Ultimately, they aim to recognize new and emerging voices as legitimate participants in the discourse about what journalism is, can be and should be. A bold manifesto as well as an in-depth empirical study, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism, media, communication, and related disciplines.Trade Review“In this insightful and engaging exploration of journalism startups and the people behind them, Deuze and Witschge break from narrow disciplinary boundaries in much the same way their subjects have broken from occupational ones. A must-read for anyone interested in the many forms contemporary journalism is taking, and the ‘rascals and rebels’ leading the way.”Jane Singer, City, University of London “To go beyond journalism, these scholars contest tacit assumptions about journalism and journalism studies, arguing that journalism has never been stable but is always becoming. Enter, then, this research on journalism startups, exemplary of how journalism as becoming is both praxis and ideology.”Nikki Usher, University of Illinois “In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge have seized upon the exciting energy felt among journalists who are working beyond the confines of traditional newsrooms.”Hyperallergic“Students, scholars, and professionals interested in journalism and entrepreneurship may find this book of interest.”Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrologue: The Beyond Journalism Project Introduction: What is Journalism (Studies)? 1 The Becoming of Journalism 2 Setting the Scene: Startups 3 Stories from the Heart 4 Making it Work 5 Stories that Matter Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of the rise and eventual disappearance of approximately thirty German weekly newspapers during a period of slightly more than eighty years. It describes the successes and difficulties encountered in maintaining a newspaper press directed at a minority group which was being slowly absorbed into the English-dominated pattern of Ontario. The First World War brought the German newspaper press to an abrupt end by government decree and although this prohibition lifted later, the German press in Ontario never completely recovered. It has remained, however, a fascinating tale out of Ontario's early history.

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Book SynopsisThe defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. James Mueller draws on exhaustive research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle to offer a unique take on the dramatic events that so shook the American public.Trade ReviewBack when newspapers were the primary source of information, opinion, and entertainment in America, when even small towns had competing papers with divergent political and religious affiliations, the public formed its views on current events mostly from what appeared in the press. Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud is a rich, readable study of the newspaper response in 1876 to Custer's disastrous defeat at the Little Bighorn - - a response that proved instrumental in creating the enduring fascination with Custer's Last Stand."" - Brian W. Dippie, author of Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth""The journalists who covered the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the immediate aftermath of Custer's defeat set the framework for all subsequent discussions and debates about Custer's Last Stand, a framework that continues to reverberate in modern journalism, the academic world, and popular culture today. James Mueller here provides a most thorough review of that early coverage. His study underscores how Custer's critics and fans alike remain so indebted to the first generation of reporters and editors to comment on those stunning events."" - Sandy Barnard, coauthor of Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the pedagogical contributions of three newspaperwomen to show how the field became a dynamic site of public participation, relationship building, education, and activism in the 1880s and 1890s.Trade Review“Bringing together a group of diverse women journalists, Grace Wetzel curates an engaging narrative of community-building, activist journalism that, importantly, pulls these rhetorical figures out of historical record and situates them within a longer legacy of public memory."—Alicia Brazeau, author,Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910"This extraordinary book is not only an engaging work of recovery, but an insightful combination of feminist historiography and public memory that establishes the significance of these women to the field and considers the politics of race and gender in the ways they have been remembered."—Shevaun E. Watson, editor of Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America"Wetzel documents a critical early period of women journalists' influence on American newspaper and media, masterfully weaving rhetorical and pedagogical analysis with the contributions of three trend-setting newspaperwomen and tracing how they used their platform to educate and encourage social action and change. This book serves as an excellent model on how to write and interpret history based on primary text documents."—Cristina D. RamÍrez, author of Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942Table of Contents Foreword by Shari Stenberg Preface Acknowledgements Newspaper Abbreviations Introduction 1.Winifred Black’s “Little Jim” Campaign: Children’s Extracurricular Writing for Social Action 2.Gertrude Bustill Mossell’s “Helpful Sisterhood”:Racial Uplift, Raising Girls, and Reader-Centered Pedagogy 3. Susette La Flesche’s Relational Journalism and Literacy Teaching: Collaborative Practices of Survivance Conclusion—Public Memory and the Pan-Extracurriculum Works Cited

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Book SynopsisSince 1924 Ohio University’s E. W. Scripps School of Journalism has been among the most important programs of its kind. This book features the recollections of alumni, faculty, friends, and students in celebration of the school’s centennial.

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Book SynopsisGoldwin Smith, controversialist, reformer, and prolific journalist, was an early prophet of the British Commonwealth, and one of the first advocates of English-speaking union. Though not a markedly original thinker or political philosopher, he was an intelligent liberal and on many subjects a representative Victorian, who speculated with unflagging interest on the problems of his day. Born and bred in England, domiciled for many years in Canada, and a frequent visitor to the United States, he had numerous friends in all three countries. He was for six years Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and for two years Professor of English and Constitutional History at Cornell University.Smith’s ideas, disseminated during his lifetime in more than two hundred journals, reflected strains characteristic of nineteenth-century thought, and in particular the Victorian concern about questions raised by the two great forces of democracy and imperialism. He analysed in lucid

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Book Synopsis The New White Race traces the development of the press in Algeria between 1860 and 1914, examining the particular role of journalists in shaping the power dynamics of settler colonialism. Constrained in different ways by the limitations imposed on free expression in a colonial context, diverse groups of European settlers, Algerian Muslims, and Algerian Jews nevertheless turned to the press to articulate their hopes and fears for the future of the land they inhabited and to imagine forms of community whichwould continue to influence political debates until the Algerian War. The frontiers of these imagined communities did not necessarily correlate with those of the nation—either French or Algerian—but framed processes of identification that were at once local, national, and transnational.The New White Race explores these processes of cultural and political identification, highlighting the production practices, professional networks, and strategiTrade Review"Legg's fresh, cogent, nuanced reading of race, language, and issues around women and anti-Semitism as expressed in the press makes this a useful reference for a number of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural or ethnic studies."—H. Bahri, Choice“Legg’s book opens new directions for research. She reinvigorates approaches to using journalistic publications as the primary source base by bringing them to bear on the generative contact zone between ‘imperial turn’ and transnational historiographies. Legg’s expansive research is particularly compelling because of the multilingual source base on which she draws.”—Todd Shepard, coeditor of French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories“Engaging and important. One of this book’s real strengths is the consistent attention to and analysis of questions of race and gender, which are embedded throughout the discussion rather than confined to particular chapters or segments. [Legg] also skillfully highlights the diversity within each of these ‘marginal’ groups, which complements the attention paid to the heterogeneous nature of settler populations.”—Claire Eldridge, author of From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The New White Race: Journalism and Civilization in French Algeria 2. The Settler Colonial Family Romance: Political Imaginaries under the Second Empire and the Third Republic 3. Foreigners into Frenchmen?: The Press and the Algerian Antijuif Movement 4. Pages without Borders: Local Publications in Global Networks 5. Algerians of Any Nationality: Articulating Communities in Multilingual Publications Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMediated Narration in the Digital Age examines mediated narration from 1991 through 2018. Peter Joseph Gloviczki considers this pivotal period spanning the rise of the World Wide Web through the growth of social media to understand how contemporary media accounts storied everyday life and times of crisis. He uses examples across media culture to show that complicated issues benefit from a critical poststructuralist approach to journalism, which promotes a communitarian ethos of respect, inclusion, and dialogue. Textual analysis of a wide range of media narratives—from a 2012 YouTube clip outlining a time line of the Sandy Hook school shootings, to coverage of then-newly-discovered footage of President Roosevelt in a wheelchair in 2013, to the Cincinnati Enquirer’s 2017 piece “Seven Days of Heroin”—illustrate how theoretical concepts work in practice while explaining the new media environment. In response to the lack of awareness oTrade Review “Gloviczki contributes in important ways to the ongoing debate about the future of journalism, a debate animated by the unprecedented potential for new media technology to revitalize our thinking about—and our commitment to—a more humane world.”—Theodore L. Glasser, professor emeritus of communication at Stanford University“A compelling, provocative, and highly instructive manifesto for new and better ways to practice the art of communication, whether the art of journalism or the art of communication, in everyday life.”—Gerry Philipsen, professor emeritus of communication at the University of Washington “Gloviczki’s book—scaffolded by an intricate grid of theories—offers a personally rooted, poignant, powerful, and accessible exposition of mediated narration’s cultural dimensions, its essential role in helping audiences navigate the complex terrains of school violence, ableism, body politics, drug addiction, and more.”—Radhika Parameswaran, Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, The Media School at Indiana University–Bloomington“Stunning writing, bold, close to the bone: Gloviczki shows us how to show, not tell.”—Norman K. Denzin, professor emeritus of communications, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois “In our troubled times we depend on journalism more than ever. But like many other societal institutions, journalism, too, is challenged to give voice to the variety of our experiences, to go beyond the flatness of portrayals, and, cognizant of its power and its constraints, to encourage society to cherish that narrating differences can unite. Mediated Narration in the Digital Age is a thoughtful and insightful reminder of that.”—Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, professor of Internet governance and regulation at the University of Oxford “Mediated Narration in the Digital Age provides a prescription for a form of storytelling better equipped to ethically represent the various communities that are both journalism’s subjects and its audiences. Both sobering and hopeful, Mediated Narration in the Digital Age is an important book designed to bring twenty-first-century journalism ‘more closely into alignment with the human experience.’”—Michael X. Delli Carpini, Oscar H. Gandy Professor of Communication and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Storying the Media World Chapter Two: Storying Sandy Hook Chapter Three: Storying FDR Chapter Four: Storying “Seven Days of Heroin” Chapter Five: Storying the Future of Journalism and Mass Communication Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down. The book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and/or pleasurable. This bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.Trade Review"At a time when the field of sexual discourse is often characterized as unbounded we may fail to notice the structuring operations of new normativities. This exceptionally readable book tracks fraught concepts of intimacy as they arise in a range of media forms, and a period of more overt transactionalism and heavy cultural emphasis on production of the sexually desirable, sexually agentic self. The authors' meticulous and rigorous account of public discourses of sexual intimacy is a considerable achievement."—Diane Negra, University College Dublin "Investigating the varied dimensions of mediating our intimate lives, this brilliant book provides a far-reaching analysis of contemporary forms of sex advice, from sex television to sex apps and more. Importantly, Mediated Intimacy not only examines the contemporary media landscape, but it is also a guide for readers to create sex-critical advice on their own, using creative and thought-provoking examples for challenging conventional norms and practices about sexual intimacies."—Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture 1 2 History of Mediated Sex Advice 30 3 Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Media 51 4 Being Normal 83 5 Work and Entrepreneurship 107 6 Pleasure 132 7 Safety and Risk 153 8 Communication and Consent 176 9 Conclusions 202 References 226 Index 261

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Book SynopsisDespite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters. It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people daily in the complex and changing worlds in which they live. It matters because it offers a fact-centered, documented approach to pertinent public issues. It matters because it keeps watch on the powerful, especially those in government, and can press upon them unpleasant truths to which they must respond. Corruption is stemmed, unwise initiatives stopped, public danger averted because of what journalists do. This book challenges journalists to think hard about what they really do. It challenges skeptical news audiences to be mindful not only of media bias but also of their own biases and how these can distort their perception. And it holds out hope that journalism will be for years to come a path for ambitious, curious young people who love words or pictures or numbers and want to use them to improve the public conversation in familiar ways or in ways yet to be imagined.Trade Review“Michael Schudson has written a thoughtful, comprehensive, balanced, eloquent, and passionate book about the worth of journalism in present times. A must-read.”Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern University “This book is vintage Schudson. A concise, matter-of-fact recitation of why we should care about journalism, it will top syllabi everywhere in explaining journalism’s singular importance and in nurturing its future survival.”Barbie Zelizer, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction 2. What Kind of Journalism Matters Most 3. Reported, Compelling, and Assertive 4. The Problem of Media Bias 5. Evidence That Journalism Matters (Or Doesn’t) 6. Why Technology Is Not the Whole Story 7. Journalism’s Four Non-Revolutions 8. Is There a Future for Journalism? Further Reading Notes

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Book SynopsisDespite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters. It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people daily in the complex and changing worlds in which they live. It matters because it offers a fact-centered, documented approach to pertinent public issues. It matters because it keeps watch on the powerful, especially those in government, and can press upon them unpleasant truths to which they must respond. Corruption is stemmed, unwise initiatives stopped, public danger averted because of what journalists do. This book challenges journalists to think hard about what they really do. It challenges skeptical news audiences to be mindful not only of media bias but also of their own biases and how these can distort their perception. And it holds out hope that journalism will be for years to come a path for ambitious, curious young people who love words or pictures or numbers and want to use them to improve the public conversation in familiar ways or in ways yet to be imagined.Trade Review“Michael Schudson has written a thoughtful, comprehensive, balanced, eloquent, and passionate book about the worth of journalism in present times. A must-read.”Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern University “This book is vintage Schudson. A concise, matter-of-fact recitation of why we should care about journalism, it will top syllabi everywhere in explaining journalism’s singular importance and in nurturing its future survival.”Barbie Zelizer, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction2. What Kind of Journalism Matters Most3. Reported, Compelling, and Assertive4. The Problem of Media Bias5. Evidence That Journalism Matters (Or Doesn’t)6. Why Technology Is Not the Whole Story7. Journalism’s Four Non-Revolutions8. Is There a Future for Journalism?Further ReadingNotes

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Book SynopsisIn a speech opening the nineteenth Chinese Communist Party Congress meeting in October 2017, President Xi Jinping spoke of a 'New Era' characterized by new types of communication convergence between the government, Party, and state media. His speech signaled that the role of the media is now more important than ever in cultivating the Party's image at home and disseminating it abroad. Indeed, communication technologies, people, and platforms are converging in new ways around the world, not just in China. This process raises important questions about information flows, control, and regulation that directly affect the future of US-China relations. Just a year before Xi proclaimed the New Era, scholars had convened in Beijing at a conference cohosted by the Communication University of China and the US-based National Communication Association to address these questions. How do China and the United States envision each other, and how do our interlinked imaginaries create both opportunities for and obstacles to greater understanding and strengthened relations? Would the convergence of new media technologies, Party control, and emerging notions of netizenship in China lead to a new age of opening and reform, greater Party domination, or perhaps some new and intriguing combination of repression and freedom? Communication Convergence in Contemporary China presents international perspectives on US-China relations in this New Era with case studies that offer readers informative snapshots of how these relations are changing on the ground, in the lived realities of our daily communication habits.Trade ReviewMedia convergence is well-known as a concept, but as a historical process, it is complicated by changing social contexts. This volume studies media convergence in China while making sensitive comparisons with the United States. The result is an engaging comparative study that illuminates the concrete processes of media convergence and fragmentation in both countries. This is an important contribution to the study of global communication as well as media politics in China." - Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisPham Xuan An was one of the twentieth century's greatest spies. While working as a correspondent for Time during the Vietnam War, he sent intelligence reports - written in invisible ink or hidden inside spring rolls in film canisters - to Ho Chi Minh and his generals in North Vietnam.Only after Saigon fell in 1975 did An's colleagues learn that the affable raconteur in their midst, acclaimed as ""dean of the Vietnamese press corps,"" was actually a general in the North Vietnamese Army. In recognition of his tradecraft and his ability to spin military losses - such as the Têt Offensive of 1968 - ­into psychological gains, An was awarded sixteen military medals.After the book's original publication, WikiLeaks revealed that Thomas A. Bass's account of An's career was distributed to CIA agents as a primer in espionage. Now available in paper with a new preface, An's story remains one of the most gripping to emerge from the era.

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Book SynopsisLiterary journalism’s origins can be traced to the nineteenth century, when it developed alongside the era’s sentimental literature. Combining fact-based reporting with the sentimentality of popular fiction, literary journalism encouraged readers to empathize with subjects by presenting more nuanced and engaging stories than typical news coverage. While women writers were central to the formation and ongoing significance of the genre, literary journalism scholarship has largely ignored their contributions. How the News Feels re-centers the work of a range of writers who were active from the nineteenth century until today, including Catharine Williams, Margaret Fuller, Nellie Bly, Winifred Black, Zora Neale Hurston, Joan Didion, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and Alexis Okeowo. Offering intimate access to their subjects’ thoughts, motivations, and yearnings, these journalists encouraged readers to empathize with society’s outcasts, from asylum inmates and murder suspects to “fallen women” and the working poor. As this carefully researched study shows, these writers succeeded in defining and developing the genre of literary journalism, with stories that inspire action, engender empathy, and narrow the gap between writer, subject, and audience.Trade Review “How the News Feels is a pleasure to read due to Fitzgerald’s lucid, engaging, animated, and clear writing style. At the same time, it also makes a significant contribution to its field by expanding scholarly understanding of sentimentalism as not just a style but an ethos—an ethos that has significantly shaped the genre of literary journalism through the work of generations of woman and nonbinary writers.”—Laura R. Fisher, author of Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era

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Book SynopsisLiterary journalism’s origins can be traced to the nineteenth century, when it developed alongside the era’s sentimental literature. Combining fact-based reporting with the sentimentality of popular fiction, literary journalism encouraged readers to empathize with subjects by presenting more nuanced and engaging stories than typical news coverage. While women writers were central to the formation and ongoing significance of the genre, literary journalism scholarship has largely ignored their contributions. How the News Feels re-centers the work of a range of writers who were active from the nineteenth century until today, including Catharine Williams, Margaret Fuller, Nellie Bly, Winifred Black, Zora Neale Hurston, Joan Didion, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and Alexis Okeowo. Offering intimate access to their subjects’ thoughts, motivations, and yearnings, these journalists encouraged readers to empathize with society’s outcasts, from asylum inmates and murder suspects to “fallen women” and the working poor. As this carefully researched study shows, these writers succeeded in defining and developing the genre of literary journalism, with stories that inspire action, engender empathy, and narrow the gap between writer, subject, and audience.Trade Review “How the News Feels is a pleasure to read due to Fitzgerald’s lucid, engaging, animated, and clear writing style. At the same time, it also makes a significant contribution to its field by expanding scholarly understanding of sentimentalism as not just a style but an ethos—an ethos that has significantly shaped the genre of literary journalism through the work of generations of woman and nonbinary writers.”—Laura R. Fisher, author of Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era

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Book SynopsisWhen readers see the names Mark Twain or Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original fake news writers in Nevada's early years. Frontier Fake News puts a spotlight on the hoaxes, feuds, pranks, outright lies, and other literary devices utilized by a number of the Silver State's frontier newsmen during the mid-19th and early 20th centuries.While Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who got his start at Virginia City's Territorial Enterprise, and Dan De Quille (William Wright), who some felt was a better writer than Twain, are the best known members of the Sagebrush School of Writers, author Richard Moreno includes others such as Fred Hart, who reported on the activities of a fake social club for Austin's Reese River Reveille, and William Forbes, who enjoyed sprinkling clever puns with political undertones in his news columns. Moreno traces the beginnings of genuine fake news from founding father Benjamin Franklin's reporting to the fake news articles of New York and Baltimore papers in the early 1800s. But these examples are only a prelude to the amazing accounts of petrified men, freeze-inducing solar armor, blood-curdling massacres, and other nonsense stories that appeared in Nevada's frontier newspapers and beyond.Trade Review"Rich Moreno's inviting, graceful writing combined with an intriguing topic, central to the western experience, is a welcome addition to regional literature. Frontier Fake News is a delightful book."—Ronald M. James, Nevada state historic preservation officer (retired), author of The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode"Moreno is one of the leading, most experienced writers on Nevada history and he did a masterful job of telling the story of these gifted, quirky writers . . . weaving together their writings, the analysis of scholars, and his own interpretation, to present them in full, living color, warts and all. I loved this book!"—Martin Griffith, Associated Press journalist, 1985-2015Table of Contents Cover Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Chapter Introduction: In on the Joke Chapter 1. A Peculiar Relationship with the Truth Man-Bats on the Moon Edgar Allan Poe's Flight of Fancy A Hoax to Disprove a Hoax "A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death" Meanwhile, out West A Sidebar—Twentieth-Century Scientific Hoaxes Chapter 2. The Sagebrush School An Exclusive Club Bret Harte's West The Devil's Typographer Renaissance Men Chapter 3. The Humorist How It All Began Trading a Pickax for a Pen News Is Serious Business—or Not "Mark One, Mark Twain" Foils and Feuds Pushing the Limits Going Too Far Chapter 4. The Master Joining the Team The "Quaints" Big Bonanza Chapter 5. The Liar The Real Lyin' Jim Truth Be Damned Chapter 6. The Scribe A Social Club Is Born Moving On The Story of the Wabuska Mangler An Appealing Opportunity Writing About "Sumpthin" Peculiar Making History Chapter 8. The Diarist The April Fools' Day "Sell" The Pranksters >From Good Times to Bad Chapter 9. The Vagabond Birth of Semblins The Wandering Years That "Major" Title The Time Two Women Fell in Love "A Few 'Sticksful' of Fiction" Coming into His Own Politics Comes Calling A Good Man Rollin M. Daggett The Enterprise Goes Dark Chapter 12. The Descendants "Luscious Lucius" and Charles Clegg The Enterprise Is Reborn "The Wild and Wooly School" The Bob Richards Era Chapter 13. The Wine of Life Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisBefore newspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force, especially in Australia – a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers.This magisterial book reveals who owned Australia’s newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, it explains how Australia’s media system came to be dominated by a handful of empires and powerful family dynasties. Many are household names, even now: Murdoch, Fairfax, Symes, Packer. Written with verve and insight and showing unparalleled command of a vast range of sources, Sally Young shows how newspaper owners influenced policy-making, lobbied and bullied politicians, and shaped internal party politics.The book begins in 1803 with Australia’s first newspaper owner – a convict who became a wealthy bank owner – giving the industry a blend of notoriety, power and wealth from the start. Throughout the twentieth century, Australians were unaware that they were reading newspapers owned by secret bankrupts and failed land boomers, powerful mining magnates, Underbelly-style gangsters, bankers, and corporate titans. It ends with the downfall of Menzies in 1941 and his conviction that a handful of press barons brought him down. The intervening years are packed with political drama, business machinations and a struggle for readers, all while peddling power and influence. It’s an ambitious media and political history, the likes of whichhaven’t been undertaken before in Australia. Explores some of the most interesting and important episodes andrelationships from the birth of the Australian newspaper industryto the 1940s. Newspapers purport to hold the powerful to account but are rarelyheld to account about their own history and influence Sally Young is one of Australia’s leading media historians, and this is a magisterial work Packed with colourful detail, ambitious, grasping characters

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Book SynopsisIn 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies' return and the rise of television, to Gough Whitlam's 'It's Time' victory in 1972.During this crucial period, twelve independent newspaper companies turned into a handful of multimedia giants. They controlled newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations. Their size and reach was unique in the western world.Playing politics was vital to this transformation. The newspaper industry was animated by friendships and rivalries, favours and deals, and backed by money and influence, including from mining companies, banks and the Catholic Church.Even internationally, Australia's newspaper owners and executives were considered a shrewd and ruthless bunch. The hard men of the industry included Rupert Murdoch, Frank Packer, Warwick Fairfax's top executive Rupert Henderson, and Jack Williams, the unsung empire builder of the Herald and Weekly Times.In Media Monsters, Sally Young, the award-winning author of Paper Emperors, uncovers the key players, their political connections and campaigns, and their corporate failures and triumphs. She explores how the companies they ran influenced the Australia we know today.

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Book SynopsisThe dominant news media is often accused of reflecting an 'elite bias', privileging and foregrounding the interests of a small segment of society, while ignoring the narratives of the majority. Tell Our Story investigates the problem of disproportionate media representation and offers a hands-on demonstration of listening journalism and research in practice to promote a more active engagement between journalists and local communities. In the process the authors dismiss the idea that some groups are voiceless, arguing that what is often described is a matter of those groups being deliberately ignored. The authors focus on three communities in South Africa, each presenting with differing but crucial historical, geographical and socio-political 'characteristics' of the post-1994 period. Adopting an audience-centred approach, the authors delve into the life and struggle narratives of each community. They expose the divides between the stories as told by the people in the community who have lived experience of these events, and the way in which these stories are understood and shaped by the media. The implications of the media's routine misrepresentation of the voices of the marginalised and poor for media diversity, media credibility and ethics, media education and training, as well as media research are unpacked and the authors offer a useful set of practical guidelines for journalists on the practice of listening journalism.Trade ReviewTell Our Story is a valuable addition to the South African discourse on media freedom: the authors examine the issue through the lens of grassroots communities in struggle, within a theoretical framework of listening. Media freedom is most often seen from the point of view of journalists. Here, the emphasis is on the right to be heard, represented, understood, and to be included.; — Professor Glenda Daniels, Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand What sets the book apart from other similar studies in this area is firstly its painstaking empirical work in South African communities (which says a great deal about the authors’ ability to gain the trust of these communities and their own ability to listen to the voices of the people); and secondly its attempt to derive from this interaction practical and concrete suggestions for improvement of journalism that moves beyond a mere critique. — Professor Herman Wasserman, Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town; This book offers a fresh and useful approach that will add significantly to the growing body of literature that critiques the mainstream media. — Professor Franz Kruger, Journalism and Media Studies, University of the WitwatersrandTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 The Trajectory and Dynamics of Afrikaner Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: An Overview - Albert Grundlingh Part 1: Assent and Dissent through Fine Art and Architecture Chapter 2 Afrikaner Nationalism and Other Settler Imaginaries at the 1936 Empire Exhibition - Lize van Robbroeck Chapter 3 From Volksargitektuur to Boere Brazil: Afrikaner Nationalism and the architectural imaginary of modernity, 1936-1966 - Federico Freschi Chapter 4 Afrikaner Identity in Contemporary Visual Art: A Study in Hauntology - Theo Sonnekus Part 2: Sculptures on University Campuses Chapter 5 ‘It Is Not Even Past': Dealing with Monuments and Memorials on Divided Campuses - Jonathan D. Jansen Chapter 6 Knocking Jannie off his Pedestal: Two Creative Interventions to the Sculpture of J H Marais at Stellenbosch University - Brenda Schmahmann Part 3: Photography, Identity and Nationhood Chapter 7 Celebrating the Volk: The 1949 Inauguration of the VoortrekkerMonument in State Information Office Photographs - Katharina Jörder Chapter 8 Reframing David Goldblatt, Re-thinking Some Afrikaners - Michael Godby and Liese van der Watt Part 4: Deploying Mass Media and Popular Visual Culture Chapter 9 The becoming girl: Anton van Wouw's Noitjie van die Onderveld, Afrikaner Nationalism and the Construction of the Volksmoeder Discourse - Lou-Marié Kruger Chapter 10 Cartoons, Intellectuals, and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism - Peter Vale Chapter 11 Manifestations of Militarisation: Visual Narratives of the Border War in 1980s South African Print Culture - Gary BainesContributor biographiesIndex

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Book SynopsisAn Inky Business is a book about the making and printing of news. It is a history of ink, paper, printing press and type, and of those who made and read newspapers in Britain, continental Europe and America from the British Civil Wars to the Battle of Gettysburg in the United States nearly 200 years later. But it is also an account of what news was and how the idea of news became central to public life. Newspapers ranged from purveyors of high seriousness to carriers of scurrilous gossip. Our current obsession with 'fake news', the worrying revelations or hints about how money, power and technology shapes and controls the press and flows of what is believed to be genuine information, has dark early-modern echoes.Trade Review'Matt Shaw's An Inky Business is a vivid and incisive account of the origins of newspapers and their extraordinary role in the transformation of society over 200 years. With the very concept of news under threat, this book could not be more timely.'-Paul Lay, editor of History Today and author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate (2020)

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a thorough analysis of newspaper language from a regional and functional perspective. Based on a collection of 4,000 newspaper articles from five English-speaking regions and five different news domains, it discusses the benefit of register analysis in a systemic functional framework to comparing varieties and determining their developmental status. For this purpose, it starts with revisiting the states of the art in the fields of media studies, text analysis and variational studies, and then combines the three strands to result in an operationalization of register parameters and thus the basis for the analysis. The results are presented for each parameter as well as in terms of correlations, and are visualized frequently. After a discussion of the findings, the work considers their implications for the theory and method as well as the author's ideas for enhancements and future research.Table of ContentsPart I: Theory 1. Regional and Functional Variation 2. Varieties of English – Concepts and Previous Work 3. The Role of News and its Language 4. A Functional Approach to Variation in English Part II: Methodology 5. Defining Register for a Quantitative Analysis 6. Corpus Design Part III: Results and What to Learn from Them 7. Field of Discourse 8. Tenor of Discourse 9. Mode of Discourse 10. Regional and Functional Variation – What do we Learn? 11. Concluding Remarks Appendix 1: Top 10 Keywords Appendix 2: Top 20 Place References per Variety Appendix 3: Ranges and Deviations

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a thorough analysis of newspaper language from a regional and functional perspective. Based on a collection of 4,000 newspaper articles from five English-speaking regions and five different news domains, it discusses the benefit of register analysis in a systemic functional framework to comparing varieties and determining their developmental status. For this purpose, it starts with revisiting the states of the art in the fields of media studies, text analysis and variational studies, and then combines the three strands to result in an operationalization of register parameters and thus the basis for the analysis. The results are presented for each parameter as well as in terms of correlations, and are visualized frequently. After a discussion of the findings, the work considers their implications for the theory and method as well as the author's ideas for enhancements and future research.Table of ContentsPart I: Theory 1. Regional and Functional Variation 2. Varieties of English – Concepts and Previous Work 3. The Role of News and its Language 4. A Functional Approach to Variation in English Part II: Methodology 5. Defining Register for a Quantitative Analysis 6. Corpus Design Part III: Results and What to Learn from Them 7. Field of Discourse 8. Tenor of Discourse 9. Mode of Discourse 10. Regional and Functional Variation – What do we Learn? 11. Concluding Remarks Appendix 1: Top 10 Keywords Appendix 2: Top 20 Place References per Variety Appendix 3: Ranges and Deviations

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the prominent place a commitment to social justice and equity has occupied in the global history of literary journalism. With international case studies, it explores and theorizes the way literary journalists have addressed inequality and its consequences in their practice. In the process, this volume focuses on the critical attitude the writers of this genre bring to their stories, the immersive reporting they use to gain detailed and intimate knowledge of their subjects, and the array of innovative rhetorical strategies through which they represent those encounters. The contributors explain how these strategies encourage readers to respond to injustices of class, race, indigeneity, gender, mobility, and access to knowledge. Together, they make the case that, throughout its history, literary journalism has proven uniquely well adapted to fusing facts with feeling in a way which makes it a compelling force for social change.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction (Robert Alexander & Willa McDonald).- 1 - Historical Beginnings: Literary Journalism, Witnessing and Epistemic Justice.- Chapter 2 - The Reporter as Medium: The Theorization of Self-reflection as a Function in Social Reportage (Pascal Sigg, PhD student at University of Zurich).- Chapter 3 - Literary Journalism and Social Justice in the US Antebellum Period (Nancy Roberts, Professor at University at Albany-SUNY).- 2 - Literary Journalist as Social Justice Activist.- Chapter 4 - Down But Not Out: Orwell's 'Spike' and Journalism as a Way of Living (Richard Keeble, Professor at University of Lincoln).- Chapter 5 - Rodolfo Walsh: The Quest for Social Justice Beyond Law(lessness) (Pablo Calvi, Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University School of Journalism).- Chapter 6 - "The Personal Bleeds into the Political": The Literary Journalism of India's Dalit Protest Movement (David O. Dowling, Associate Professor at University of Iowa).- 3 - Migration, Displacement and Carceral Justice.- Chapter 7 - Literary Journalism as a Vehicle for Mobility Justice: The Case of Every Day We Live is the Future (2017) (Rob Alexander).- Chapter 8 - The Global Language of Contemporary Literary Journalism: Transatlantic Views of Social (In)Justice in the Works of Gabriel Thompson and Rui Simões (Isabel Soares, Associate Professor; Rita Amorim, Assistant Professor; Raquel Baltazar, Assistant Professor, all Universidade de Lisboa).- Chapter 9 - Social Justice and Literary Journalism in Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains (Willa McDonald).- Chapter 10 - The Literary Journalism of the Prison Press (Kate McQueen, University of California Santa Cruz).- 4 - Race, Gender and the Witnessing of Trauma: Testimonial and Deliberative Justice.- Chapter 11 - Matter of Access: The Role of Black Journalists in Covering Emmett Till (Roberta S. Maguire, Professor at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh).- Chapter 12 - Phronetic Journalism: Ethics Empathy and Change in Melissa Davey's 'I feel mutilated' (Jennnifer Martin, Lecturer at Deakin University).- Chapter 13 - Standpoint Theory and Trauma: Giving Voice to the Voiceless (Sue Joseph, Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney).- 5 - Environmental, Ecological and Indigenous Justice.- Chapter 14 - Joan Baxter's The Mill: Bearing Witness to Environmental and Epistemic Justice (Callie Long, PhD candidate at Brock University).- Chapter 15 - Rights to Territory, Identity and Environmental Challenges in Latin American Literary Journalism (Dolors Paula-Sampio, Senior Lecturer at University of Valencia).- Chapter 16 - From Silent Spring to Standing Rock: Environmental Justice, New Media and Oral Traditions (Ryan Marnane, Lecturer at Bryant University).- 6 - Literary Journalism Form and Social Justice.- Chapter 17 - Literary Reportage of an Empathetic Eyewitness and an Activist Rebel: Boštjan Videmšek and his Dispatches from the Frontlines of Humanity (Leonora Flis, Associate Prfoessor at University of Nova Gorica and University of Ljubljana).- Chapter 18 - American Literary Journalism as Liberatory Pracix: Experimentalism and Social Justice (William Dow, Professor at The American University of Paris).- 7 - Teaching Literary Journalism as a Tool for Social Change.- Chapter 19 - Stories, Students and Social Justice: Literary Journalism as a Teaching Tool for Change (Jeffrey Neely, Associate Professor at the University of Tampa; Mitzi Lewis, Associate Professor at MSU Texas).

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the form, dynamics, and main reasons for media capture and conspiracy between editors and executive politicians in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 2000. Situated in the literatures on Europeanization, democratization, party studies, and media studies, the book aims to connect these fields by showing that internal party dynamics play an important role in motivating executive politicians to hijack or collaborate with media. Against this backdrop, the book tells the story of Croatian journalism in the context of media-mafia conglomerates, political corruption, and media hijacking, and examines how "traditional" democratic drivers that the literature frequently cites, such as Europeanization and party competition, failed to prevent systematic transgressions by politicians. Methodologically, the book takes a two-pronged approach. First, nearly 50 interviews were conducted with Croatian investigative journalists, from which the narratives about the relationships between government politicians and editors over 15 years were reconstructed. In a second step, a sample of 40,000 media articles was subjected to a computational sentiment analysis, covering the same 15-year period and showing high levels of cooperation between corrupt politicians and corrupt media outlets.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Measurement and Methods of Data Collection3. Historical Overview – Establishment of Formal Particularism and the First Transition in the 1990s4. Ivica Račan and Jadranka Kosor: Steps to Universalism5. Ivo Sanader and Zoran Milanović: Regression to Particularism6. Quantitative Text Analysis7. What Motivated the Shifts between Particularism and Universalism?8. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that there are constant formations of online public spheres in present-day China, prompted by never-ending news. It contends that these publics are chronic, although individually they are usually transient. They are networked, which enables them to go viral in hours, and they may engender unexpected consequences. These features explain why online public spheres survive in China even though censorship and information manipulation are pervasively and strategically maneuvered to guide or manufacture “public opinion”. The book also proposes that there are deeply entangled structural factors bolstering China's online news-prompted public spheres: the continuous flow of news information, the countless public spaces facilitated by China’s digital infrastructure and the rise of rights-conscious netizens. Pushing forward a new way of conceptualizing the idea of public spheres, this book contends clearly that public spheres are most often sparked by chronic news in today's media-saturated societies. Delving into the life cycles of public spheres, it goes beyond static analysis of individual public spheres and instead studies their five qualities, which, except for the networked quality, have never been systematically addressed in scholarship. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Theory of News-Prompted Public Spheres and their Features.- Chapter 3. The Application of Public Sphere Theory in China.- Chapter 4. Structural Factors Fostering China’s Online NewsPrompted Publics.- Chapter 5. Everyday News-Prompted Publics on WeChat.- Chapter 6. Surprise.- Chapter 7. Ephemerality.- Chapter 8. Networked Public Spheres.- Chapter 9. Unintended Consequences.- Chapter 10. Rethinking Online News-Prompted Public Spheres./

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Book SynopsisThis open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of Communications, Journalism, Politics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science, as well as global and local policymakers and ordinary citizens interested in how to prevent the spread of false information worldwide, both now and in the future.Table of ContentsPart I Conceptual Tools and Contexts .-1 Optimising Emotion: Introducing the Civic Body .- 2 Core Incubators of False Information Online .- 3 Affective Contexts Worldwide .- 4 The Nature and Circulation of False Information .- 5 Feeling-Into the Civic Body: Affect, Emotions and Moods .- 6 Profiling, Targeting and the Increasing Optimisation of Emotional Life .- Part II Strengthening the Civic Body .-7 Harms to the Civic Body from False Information Online .- 8 Defending the Civic Body from False Information Online .- 9 Strengthening the Civic Body as the Bandwidth for Optimised Emotion Expands

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive investigation of the ways in which social media has affected change to the constitution of mainstream journalism. The volume does this in a unique way – by tracing the links between the different changes social media has brought to individual journalism practice, organisational processes and policies and institutional understandings of journalism. The role of social media platforms in the changing professional landscape of journalism is explored, both in terms of the changes that social media platforms have impacted on journalism, but also the way in which journalistic use of social media has impacted on particular uses of these platforms. Therefore, Journalism and Social Media is not simply a description of changed journalistic practices, but endeavours to encapsulate a complex and integrated techno-social relationship, incorporating both the individual practices of journalists, as well as the larger organisational and institutional changes that have occurred due to the increasing use of social media to investigate, present and disseminate news. Table of ContentsChapter one. Journalism and Social Media: An Introduction.- Chapter two. Social media and Journalism Practice.- Chapter three. Journalism and social media audiences.- Chapter four. Social media and the newsroom: new relationships, new policies, new practices.- Chapter five. Big data, algorithms and the metrics of social media news.- Chapter six. Shifting values, new norms: Social media and the changing profession of journalism.- Chapter seven. News in social media environments: Journalism in a ‘post-truth’ world.- Chapter eight. Where to from here for professional journalism?.

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Book SynopsisHate Speech ist ein bisher in der Medienwissenschaft vernachlässigter Forschungsgegenstand, dem sowohl eine ausreichende Abgrenzung als auch eine kohärente theoretische Fundierung fehlt. Das Buch schließt diese Lücke und analysiert anhand der Kontroversen um Oriana Fallaci und Thilo Sarrazin, wie Massenmedien zur Bühne für Hate Speech werden und wie sich Argumentationsprozesse hierbei auswirken. Die Untersuchung in den führenden Qualitätszeitungen Deutschlands, Italiens, Spaniens, Großbritanniens und der USA zeigt, dass Hate Speech in den Massenmedien ein rationales Phänomen ist und eine argumentative Auseinandersetzung mit den diskriminierenden Botschaften dazu führt, deren Diskursqualität zu erhöhen und sie kommunikativ zu legitimieren. Die Leistung der Hate Speaker ist es dabei nicht, etwas zuvor Unausgesprochenes oder Unaussprechliches zu thematisieren oder einen diesbezüglichen Konsens herzustellen, sondern die öffentliche Agenda zu bestimmen. Trade Review“… Das Buch, das die Veröffentlichung ihrer Habilitationsschrift ist, gibt einen sehr fundierten Überblick zum Stand der akademischen Diskussion zum Thema „Hass-Kommunikation“ und verweist auf viele interessante theoretische Aspekte des zeitgenössischen Journalismus … Für Forschung und Lehre liefert die Analyse gutes Material für Auseinandersetzungen mit Populismus, Diskriminierung und Medienwirkungen … Für weitere Auseinandersetzungen mit Hass-Diskursen und aktuellen, teils irrationalen Debatten bietet das Buch eine sehr gute Basis.” (Dr. Uwe Breitenborn, in: tv diskurs, Jg. 22, Heft 4, 2018)Table of ContentsKontroversen, ihre Mediendynamik und Legitimität.- Hate Speech und die kommunikative Herstellung menschlicher Ungleichwertigkeit.- Fallstudie 1: Oriana Fallaci.- Fallstudie 2: Thilo Sarrazin.

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Book SynopsisDie Medien stecken in einer Dauerkrise – und daran ist nicht nur das Internet schuld. Sie leiden unter der ‚amerikanischen Krankheit’; Kommerzialisierung der Inhalte, Reduzierung der Investitionen und Minimierung des journalistischen Personals sind die Folge. Jahrelang wurde versäumt, ihr altes Geschäftsmodell zu modernisieren. Zudem haben professionelles Unvermögen und ethisches Versagen von Journalisten das Vertrauen in die Berichterstattung erschüttert. Inzwischen führen ein US-Präsident und deutsche ‚Wutbürger’ sogar einen Krieg gegen die Medien. In diesem Buch wird rekonstruiert, wie es zu dieser Lage gekommen ist, und legitimiert, dass eine demokratische Gesellschaft (guten) Journalismus weiterhin braucht. Autonomie von ökonomischen Zwängen und Kompetenz der Akteure sind die Voraussetzung für sein Funktionieren.<Table of ContentsDas Geschäftsmodell der 'Lügenpresse'- Die Funktion des Journalismus.- Die Technologie und die Ökonomie.- Die politische Kommunikation.- Die Medienethik und die Medienkritik.- Die Qualität der Berichterstattung.- Was soll nun aus dem Journalismus werden?

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Book SynopsisDas Buch zeigt die Bandbreite zeitgenössischer Textprodukte in der Wirtschaftskommunikation auf, die durch verschiedene Varianten des Spiels mit Sprache und Text beeindrucken und eine lebendige Textkultur illustrieren können. ​Texte in Unternehmenskommunikation und Werbung folgen vielfach festgelegten Mustern. Pressemeldungen, Editorials oder Werbeanzeigen z.B. bieten als konventionelle Textsorten recht klare Orientierungen zu ihrem Inhalt und ihrer Form. Andere Texte wiederum sind vor allem deshalb aufmerksamkeitsstark und attraktiv, weil sie von Normen abweichen und spielerisch mit Erwartungen an Texte und ihren konventionellen Gestaltungsprinzipien umgehen. Zeitungsbeilagen in Form von Liebesbriefen, schillernde Unternehmensstorys, lyrische Verse in einer Werbeanzeige oder Wirtschaftspublikationen als Comic Strip z.B. informieren und unterhalten zugleich. Trade Review“... In jedem Falle ein interessantes Werk, bestenfalls ein Lesevergnügen. ... Wer ein Faible für kreative Sprache und sprachliche Innovationen hat, wird an diesem unterhaltsamen Werk seine Freude haben ...” (Jens Hungermann, in: pressesprecher, Heft 5, Oktober 2017)Table of ContentsDas Spiel mit dem Text – Spielarten, Spielregeln, Spielerfinder.- Etablierte Spiele im Wandel.- Neue Spiele in der Erprobung.- Spielregeln und Abweichungsprinzipien.

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Book SynopsisIn diesem essential wird der radikale Wandel der Medien und des Journalismus durch den Aufstieg der Plattformen beschrieben. Es wird gezeigt, wie neue Akteure mit neuen Herangehensweisen auf die Bühne treten. Denn durch die aufgezeigten Veränderungen kann jeder Mensch ohne besonderen Sachverstand weltweit publizieren. Dies verändert grundlegend die Produktionsweisen und Geschäftsmodelle der Medien und des Journalismus selbst, denn jeder Mensch wird zum Publizisten. Die Plattformen diktieren die Spielregeln wer publiziert, wie publiziert wird und wer damit Geld verdienen kann. Dies ist aber nicht nur Bedrohung, sondern auch eine große Chance für den Journalismus.Table of ContentsPlattform und Medien.- Filterblasen.- Fake News - Fact Checking.- Crowdsourcing und Crowdfunding.- Non-Profit-Journalismus.

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Book Synopsis"Mind the GAPZ" - mit dieser Formel zeigt das Autorenteam, wie man ganzheitlich Änderungen gestaltet, Prozesse lebt und Ziele definiert. Qualität und damit Erfolg erreichen Medien langfristig nur, wenn sie sich nicht nur mit dem Produkt, sondern auch mit Strukturen und Strategien beschäftigen. Das Handbuch kristallisiert die Grundgedanken und Leitlinien der Qualitätsmanagement-Norm DIN EN ISO 9001 heraus und bricht diese auf den Medien- und Redaktionsalltag herunter. So wird die tägliche Arbeit in strukturierte Bahnen gelenkt - trotz knapper Zeit entsteht ein qualitativ hochwertiges Produkt.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.- Die Idee der ständigen Verbesserung als Grundidee und Methode.- Anleitung zum Lesen.- Mind the GAPZ.- Das große Ich bin Ich.- Chefsache.- Wir brauchen einen Plan.- Von nichts kommt nichts.- Bei der Arbeit.- Messen, nicht glauben,- Aus Fehlern und Erfolgen lernen.- Das ist nicht das Ende.

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Book SynopsisDer letzte Band der Reihe greift den Medienwandel aus medienökonomischer Perspektive der vergangenen drei Jahre auf. Dazu werden ausgewählte Beiträge aus Netzveröffentlichungen herangezogen. Die Leserschaft erhält ein redaktionell gefiltertes, kompaktes Werk zu den Umbrüchen der Medienlandschaft durch das Aufkommen des hybriden Kommunikationsraumes Internet.Table of ContentsTechnologie, Gesellschaft, Markt & Politik im Medienwandel.- Ausfaltung von Kommunikationsoptionen.- Journalismus im Medienwandel.- Medienwirtschaft im Wandel.- Regulierung im Medienwandel

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Book SynopsisSusanne Merkle beschäftigt sich in einem komparativen Forschungsansatz mit dem politischen Journalismus in Deutschland und Frankreich. Vor dem Hintergrund der länderspezifischen Kontextfaktoren des Pressejournalismus untersucht sie in einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse die Muster journalistischer Darstellung und Meinungsäußerung in deutschen und französischen Qualitätszeitungen zur Debatte um das Freihandelsabkommen TTIP. Im Zusammenhang mit den Entstehungsbedingungen der Berichterstattung im deutschen und französischen Mediensystem deuten die Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass der Journalismus beider Länder trotz gewisser Konvergenzen nach wie vor durch national-spezifische und historisch gewachsene Journalismusverständnisse geprägt ist.Table of ContentsKontext und Bedingungen des Pressejournalismus in Deutschland und Frankreich.- Makroebene: Bedingungen auf Systemebene.- Mesoebene: Ökonomische und publizistische Rahmenbedingungen.- Mikroebene: Journalisten als Berufsgruppe und Individuen.- Die TTIP-Berichterstattung im deutsch-französischen Vergleich: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede .- Meinungsäußerungen im Vergleich: Positionen, Argumente und Bewertungen in Berichterstattung und Kommentierung.

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Book SynopsisIn Medienunternehmen und in der Unternehmenskommunikation kommen zu traditionellen Ausspielwegen digitale Kanäle hinzu. Die Inhalte werden oft in Newsrooms produziert. Es setzt sich das Bewusstsein durch, dass sich Kommunikationsmaßnahmen radikal am Bedürfnis des Users orientieren. Bei diesen Veränderungsprozessen muss ein besonderer Wert darauf gelegt werden, die Mitarbeiter mitzunehmen. Denn nur dann wird der Change-Prozess auch wirtschaftlich erfolgreich sein. In diesem essential wird aufgezeigt, warum Medienunternehmen und Kommunikationsabteilungen eine gelebte Change-Kultur brauchen und wie sie den Wandel systematisch angehen können.Table of ContentsGrundlagen von Change Management in Medienunternehmen und in der Unternehmenskommunikation.- Branchenspezifische Veränderungsprozesse wie die Einführung von Newsrooms, Social-Media-Kanälen oder Corporate Publishing.- Leitlinien für Change-Kommunikation.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch bietet einen praktischen Leitfaden für Journalismus auf Instagram. Es gibt sowohl die Grundlagen für Instagram-Journalismus, als auch Tipps und Tricks für Profis. Deshalb spielt es keine Rolle, ob die Leserin oder der Leser mit der Plattform schon vertraut ist oder noch nicht. Instagram ist die Plattform, um junge Menschen zu erreichen. Es wird erklärt, wie durch gute Inhalte auf der Plattform aus Instagram-Followern regelmäßige Besucher*innen der Homepage oder E-Paper-Leser*innen werden können. Zusätzlich gibt es Anleitungen für die Community-Arbeit und Ideen, wie Instagram als Recherchequelle genutzt werden kann. Außerdem bietet das Buch praktische Informationen für TV- und Radiojournalist*innen und eine Einführung in Instagram für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Aktueller Forschungsstand.- Wünsche und Erwartungen der Nutzer.- Arbeitsalltag von Instagram-Journalisten.- Account-Strategie.- Der Feed: Leitfaden und Beispiele.- Die Story: Leitfaden und Beispiele.- Innovative Instagram-Accounts.- Besonderheiten für Lokalzeitungsjournalist*innen.- Besonderheiten für Radio-Journalist*innen.- Community-Arbeit.- Instagram als Recherche-Tool.- Hilfreiche Programme.- Ethische Aspekte.- Interview mit André Steins.- Influencer*innen.- Instagram für Öffentlichkeitsarbeiter*Innen.- Und jetzt?.

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Book SynopsisKira Drössler zeigt, wie Management, Entwicklung und Content von innovativen Formaten für junge Zielgruppen gestaltet werden sollten, um Digital Natives nachhaltig auf Social Media-Plattformen zu erreichen. Mit stetigem Einbezug der Zielgruppencharakteristika entsteht ein Zyklus der Formatentwicklung, der seine Schwerpunkte auf Prozesse, eine flexible Organisation, Diversität bei der Entwicklung und den Einbezug junger Lebensrealitäten legt. Das Buch liefert damit auf Basis von Erkenntnissen aus Journalistik, Medienökonomie und Innovationsforschung sowie aus Interviews mit Akteuren des öffentlich-rechtlichen Onlineangebotes funk praxisrelevante Handlungsempfehlungen auf Format- und Senderebene für innovationsförderndes Management und die Konzeption junger Social Formate. Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Theorie und Forschungsstand.- Untersuchungs- und Methodenkonzeption.- Auswertung und Interpretation der Teilstudie I.- Auswertung und Interpretation der Teilstudie II.- Schlussbetrachtung.

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Book SynopsisBilder in der Presseberichterstattung nehmen Einfluss auf die Deutungs- und Wahrnehmungsmuster von Migration. Dadurch sind sie, die Bilder, Teil von gesellschaftlichen Aushandlungsprozessen über Migration. Über Pressebilder versichern sich Gesellschaften ihrer aktuellen Verfasstheit, sodass sie als Teil von Selbstverständigungsprozessen verstanden werden müssen. Aus dieser Perspektive widmet sich die Untersuchung Bildmotiven, die im Zeitraum der späten 1950er bis frühen 1990er Jahre in der Presseberichterstattung über ‚Flucht‘ und ‚Asyl‘ veröffentlicht wurden und leistet so einen Beitrag zum Verständnis der Bundesrepublik als Migrationsgesellschaft in historischer Perspektive.Trade Review“... Insgesamt gelingt es Lisa-Katharina Weimar hervorragend, sowohl die großen Linien der Visualisierung von Flucht und Flüchtlingen über vier Jahrzehnte in der Bundesrepublik herauszuarbeiten als auch das Wirken der Bilder in spezifischen Verwendungszusammenhängen durch oftmals bestechende Einzelanalysen sichtbar zu machen …” (Stephan Scholz, in: H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, 18. Juli 2022)Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Ordnung, Gut-Sein Und Überlegenheit.- Chaos, Täterschaft Und (Potenzielle) Unterlegenheit.- Erkenntnisse: Selbstverständnis Und Visuelle Inszenierung.

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Book SynopsisDer Band sammelt aktuelle Modelle, Analysen und Befunde dazu, wie strategische Kommunikation im Spannungsfeld zwischen Gemeinwohl und Partikularinteressen verortet und gestaltet werden kann. Bisherige Ansätze der Forschung zur strategischen Kommunikation, etwa zur CSR-Kommunikation oder zu dialogorientierter Public Relations, ordnen die Verfolgung gesellschaftlicher Interessen oft in den größeren Rahmen des Strebens nach Partikularinteressen ein und zeigen auf, wie gesellschaftliche Verantwortungsübernahme zu organisationalen Interessen beitragen kann und soll. Demgegenüber gelangen die Beiträge des Sammelbands durch die Kontrastierung von Gemeinwohl und Partikularinteresse zu neuen Erkenntnissen. Dabei stehen zwei Fragen im Zentrum: 1. Wie kann strategische Kommunikation modelliert und praktiziert werden, die systematisch neben Partikularinteressen auch oder vornehmlich Gemeinwohlinteressen bedient? 2. Welche typischen Wertkonflikte existieren im Kontext der strategischen Kommunikation und welche theoretisch begründeten und/oder empirisch erprobten Ansätze gibt es zum Umgang mit solchen Konflikten?Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Teil 1: Gemeinwohl als Forschungsgegenstand der strategischen Kommunikation.- Teil 2: Ansätze gemeinwohlorientierter Organisationskommunikation.- Teil 3: Interne und externe Anspruchsgruppen im Umgang mit Wertkonflikten.

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