What IS News?
eBook - ePub

What IS News?

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What IS News?

About this book

This volume explores contemporary understandings of "news values" and the "fake news" phenomena and collects together important new theory-building research that sheds light on implications of compromised news products and the ways it shapes perceptions.

News does not happen in a vacuum and journalism is a practice with a definable milieu which manufactures a product shaped by a complex and subjective collection, organization, and dissemination of information. The social import of revisiting Herbert Gans' "what is news" ethnographic query in 1979 played out in earnest in 2020. Americans watched news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic offer politicized health information complete with conflicting reports of disagreeing experts, conspiracy theories, vaccination resistance, and racist language targeting China and people of Asian descent. This collection expands on mass communication theory frameworks built since the 1970s, to enable us to better operationalize and understand mass media's role in defining, shaping, and amplifying news.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society.

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Yes, you can access What IS News? by Donnalyn Pompper, Lindsay Hoffman, Donnalyn Pompper,Lindsay Hoffman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781000399332
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Communication Studies
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: From What IS News to How Vital Is News
  9. 1 “I Know It When I See It”: Constructing Emotion and Emotional Labor in Social Justice News
  10. 2 When Pundits Weigh In: Do Expert and Partisan Critiques in News Reports Shape Ordinary Individuals’ Interpretations of Polls?
  11. 3 News, Nationalism, and Hegemony: The Formation of Consistent Issue Framing Throughout the U.S. Political Right
  12. 4 The Ineffectiveness of Fact-Checking Labels on News Memes and Articles
  13. 5 The Influence of Presumed Fake News Influence: Examining Public Support for Corporate Corrective Response, Media Literacy Interventions, and Governmental Regulation
  14. 6 That’s Not News: Audience Perceptions of “News-ness” and Why It Matters
  15. 7 “Fake News Is Anything They Say!” — Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News among the American Public
  16. Index