Tabloid Tales - Global Debates over Media Standards (Hardcover)

Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as tabloidization. The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than some of the laments suggest. As the contributors show, this is not just a U.S. problem but is repeated in country after country, and it is not certain that the media anywhere are getting more tabloid. What is more, there is no consensus about whether tabloidization is just dumbing down or whether it is a necessary tactic for the mass media to engage with new audiences who do not have the news habit. Tabloid Tales will be of interest to students and scholars in journalism, mass communication, political science, and cultural and media studies."

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	March 2000
Editors:	Colin Sparks • John Tulloch
Foreword by:	Barbie Zelizer
Contributors:	S.Elizabeth Bird • Rod Brookes • Andrew Calabrese • Peter Golding • Jostein Gripsrud • Agnes Gulyas • Daniel C. Hallin
Dimensions:	242 x 161 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-8476-9571-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Press & journalism
LSN:	0-8476-9571-9
Barcode:	9780847695713

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