"Barbie Zelizer provides enormous service to students and scholars
with this comprehensive and highly persuasive critique of the
literature in and about journalism as both process and practice, as
a profession and an industry. Zelizer takes a step back to look at
what we know about news, and she does not pull her punches in
pointing out what we do not know." -Linda Steiner, Rutgers
University "Zelizer's encyclopedic review of scholarly studies of
journalism fills an important need for researchers, and comparing
that scholarship across disciplines, generations and countries
makes it even more valuable. . . Her analyses will be invaluable
for media research and should also spur interest in journalism
among the social science and other disciplines she studied. . .The
book is an impressive achievement." -Herbert J. Gans, Columbia
University and author of Democracy and the News "Taking Journalism
Seriously is a refulgent analysis of the condition of journalism
studies. Zelizer has produced a critical and lasting contribution
to our understanding of the position of news, journalism and
journalism practice within the disciplines of political science,
sociology, psychology, philosophy, language and cultural studies.
This excellent book is an engaging and sophisticated treatise on
both the historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives of
journalism scholarship." -Howard Tumber, City University, London
How have scholars tended to conceptualize news, newsmaking,
journalism, journalists, and the news media? Which explanatory
frames have they used to explore journalistic practice? From which
fields of inquiry have they borrowed in shaping their assumptions
about how journalism works? In Taking Journalism Seriously: News
and the Academy, author Barbie Zelizer discusses questions about
the viability of the field of journalism scholarship and examines
journalism as a discipline, a profession, a practice, and a
cultural phenomenon. Taking Journalism Seriously argues that
scholars have remained too entrenched within their own disciplinary
areas resulting in isolated bodies of scholarship. This is the
first book to critically survey journalism scholarship in one
volume and organize it by disparate fields. The book reviews
existing journalism research in such diverse fields as sociology,
history, language studies, political science, and cultural analysis
and dissects the most prevalent and understated research in each
discipline. The author provides a critical mapping of the field of
journalism studies and encourages academics to look at journalism
from various disciplinary perspectives. Taking Journalism Seriously
advocates a realignment of the ways in which journalism has
traditionally been conceptualized and urges scholars to think anew
about what journalism is as well as reflect on why they see it as
they do. Taking Journalism Seriously is designed for undergraduate
and graduate students in advanced courses on Journalism and
Journalism Studies. It will also be of interest to scholars,
academics, and researchers in the fields of Journalism,
Communication, Media Studies, Sociology, and Cultural Studies.
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