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Alarming Reports

Communicating Conflict in the Daily News

By: Andrew Arno’s

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Hardcover | 1 May 2009

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218 Pages

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23.5 x 16.2 x 2.0

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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.

Industry Reviews

"...Extensively referenced, this is a book for communication theorists and anthropologists." · Choice

"...an intriguing read which can broaden the perception of the news media and stir class debates as well as suggest further academic research...[It] is a complex academic work...[offering] suitable and inspiring reading for postgraduate students and scholars." · Media, Culture & Society

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