Alarming Reports : : Communicating Conflict in the Daily News / / Andrew Arno’s.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Arno’s, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Media ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; 1. News and the Anthropology of Confl ict Communication --; 2. The Dark Side of the Media: News as Control Communication --; 3. Two Theories of News: The Civic Model and the Conflict Discourse System Model --; 4. The News Act: News Analysis and Semiotic Theory --; 5. News and Law as Conflict Communication Systems --; 6. News in Extra-Textual Terrain --; 7. Policy Talk: In Law, on the Street, and on Television --; 8. Order, Disorder, and the News Media in Western Society: Whose Side Are They On? --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845459154; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845459154
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Arno’s.

News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News as a fundamental social process comes into being not when an event takes place or when a report of the event is created but when that report becomes news to someone. As it moves off the page into the community, news discovers - through its interpretations - its reality in the lives of the consumers. This book explores the path of news as it moves through the tangled labyrinth of social identities and asserted interests that lie beyond the page or screen. The language and communication-oriented study of news promises a salient area of investigation, pointing the way to an expansion, if not a redefinition of basic anthropological ideas and practices of ethnography, participant observation, and “the field” in the future of anthropological research.