Full Description
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 Dracklé, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, 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.
Contents
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 Gürsel
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 Chávez 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 Dracklé
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
