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Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and
lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass
communications research. Her body of work, spanning four decades,
has included groundbreaking conceptual and methodological advances,
particularly in the areas of gatekeeping, survey research and
content analysis. The chapters in this collection build upon her
legacy in both theory and method, and particularly in the area of
news research. At the heart of the book are chapters that apply
concepts found in Shoemaker's earliest work, such as deviance and
newsworthiness, and extend theories such as gatekeeping and
agenda-setting into the digital era. Empirical analyses on topics
such as international and political news provide insights into
journalism in these transitional times. Additional chapters explore
digital media and the "mediated method." The closing section,
Reflections on the Transitional Age, includes two chapters that pay
homage to Shoemaker's contributions through discussion of the
importance of theory and research from a personal perspective. The
final chapter challenges academics to consider the implications of
the digital era for scholarly creativity. A collection with wide
appeal to all media scholars, Media Scholarship in a Transitional
Age is particularly well-suited to graduate student seminars on
mass communications theory, media sociology and news scholarship.
Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and
lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass
communications research. Her body of work, spanning four decades,
has included groundbreaking conceptual and methodological advances,
particularly in the areas of gatekeeping, survey research and
content analysis. The chapters in this collection build upon her
legacy in both theory and method, and particularly in the area of
news research. At the heart of the book are chapters that apply
concepts found in Shoemaker's earliest work, such as deviance and
newsworthiness, and extend theories such as gatekeeping and
agenda-setting into the digital era. Empirical analyses on topics
such as international and political news provide insights into
journalism in these transitional times. Additional chapters explore
digital media and the "mediated method." The closing section,
Reflections on the Transitional Age, includes two chapters that pay
homage to Shoemaker's contributions through discussion of the
importance of theory and research from a personal perspective. The
final chapter challenges academics to consider the implications of
the digital era for scholarly creativity. A collection with wide
appeal to all media scholars, Media Scholarship in a Transitional
Age is particularly well-suited to graduate student seminars on
mass communications theory, media sociology and news scholarship.
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Journalism (Hardcover)
Tim P. Vos
bundle available
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R8,370
Discovery Miles 83 700
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This volume sets out the state-of-the-art in the discipline of
journalism at a time in which the practice and profession of
journalism is in serious flux. While journalism is still anchored
to its history, change is infecting the field. The profession, and
the scholars who study it, are reconceptualizing what journalism is
in a time when journalists no longer monopolize the means for
spreading the news. Here, journalism is explored as a social
practice, as an institution, and as memory. The roles,
epistemologies, and ethics of the field are evolving. With this in
mind, the volume revisits classic theories of journalism, such as
gatekeeping and agenda-setting, but also opens up new avenues of
theorizing by broadening the scope of inquiry into an expanded
journalism ecology, which now includes citizen journalism,
documentaries, and lifestyle journalism, and by tapping the
insights of other disciplines, such as geography, economics, and
psychology. The volume is a go-to map of the field for students and
scholars-highlighting emerging issues, enduring themes, revitalized
theories, and fresh conceptualizations of journalism.
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