Gutsche, Robert E., 1980-
Media control : news as an institution of power and social control Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. - New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. - x, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction --
The experience of experiencing: A beginning --
Purpose of the book --
Plan of the book --
1. Power, propaganda and the purpose of news --
Explicating the embassy evacuations: The purpose of banal news --
Power: A briefing on news as commodity --
Incorporating the news: Joining "the power elite" --
Conclusion: Interpreting news as propaganda --
2. Making news: Purposes, practices, and pandering --
Reading news as national rhetoric: The Boston bombings --
From social power to "media power" --
Conclusion: Interpreting journalism through levels as analysis --
Displacement and punishment: The press as place-makers --
Here is not there: Place ideologies in the press --
The power of "othering" in press characterizations of place and race --
News place-making as "The New Jim Crow" --
Conclusion: Media displacement as punishment --
4. News as cultural distraction: Controversy, conspiracy, and collective forgetting --
Controversy or bust: Media commitment to crazy in national crisis --
The distraction of "conspiracy theory": News, fear, and the need for protection --
Militarization and media violance: The violence of media language --
Conclusion: Collective forgetting and media control --
5. Normalizing media surveillance: Media waiting, watching, and shaming --
Media waiting: Fearing South Beach's Urban Beach Week --
Media watching: The functions of media surveillance --
Media shaming: Normalizing "correction"-as-control --
Conclusion: Media surveillance as punishment --
6. The violence of media sousveillance: Identifying the press as police --
Policy myth: Media adoption of police power --
Journalistic information and (questioned) collaboration --
Controlled monitoring as mediated practice --
Conclusion: The virtuous violence of media sousveillance --
Conclusion: The myth of being "post-media" & why Americans will always be media illiterate --
Media control: An assessment & reminder --
The death of media literacy: The force of digital distractions & corporatization --
Media socialization and press pacification through journalism education --
Conclusion: Complicating media control's collective identity.
"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"--
9781501320132
Mass media--Political aspects--History--20th century--United States
Mass media--Political aspects--History--21st century.--United States
Journalism--Political aspects--History--20th century.--United States
Journalism--Political aspects--History--21st century.--United States
Press and politics--United States
Social control--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
Journalism--Political aspects
Mass media--Political aspects
Press and politics
Social control
302.230973 GU ME
Media control : news as an institution of power and social control Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. - New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. - x, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction --
The experience of experiencing: A beginning --
Purpose of the book --
Plan of the book --
1. Power, propaganda and the purpose of news --
Explicating the embassy evacuations: The purpose of banal news --
Power: A briefing on news as commodity --
Incorporating the news: Joining "the power elite" --
Conclusion: Interpreting news as propaganda --
2. Making news: Purposes, practices, and pandering --
Reading news as national rhetoric: The Boston bombings --
From social power to "media power" --
Conclusion: Interpreting journalism through levels as analysis --
Displacement and punishment: The press as place-makers --
Here is not there: Place ideologies in the press --
The power of "othering" in press characterizations of place and race --
News place-making as "The New Jim Crow" --
Conclusion: Media displacement as punishment --
4. News as cultural distraction: Controversy, conspiracy, and collective forgetting --
Controversy or bust: Media commitment to crazy in national crisis --
The distraction of "conspiracy theory": News, fear, and the need for protection --
Militarization and media violance: The violence of media language --
Conclusion: Collective forgetting and media control --
5. Normalizing media surveillance: Media waiting, watching, and shaming --
Media waiting: Fearing South Beach's Urban Beach Week --
Media watching: The functions of media surveillance --
Media shaming: Normalizing "correction"-as-control --
Conclusion: Media surveillance as punishment --
6. The violence of media sousveillance: Identifying the press as police --
Policy myth: Media adoption of police power --
Journalistic information and (questioned) collaboration --
Controlled monitoring as mediated practice --
Conclusion: The virtuous violence of media sousveillance --
Conclusion: The myth of being "post-media" & why Americans will always be media illiterate --
Media control: An assessment & reminder --
The death of media literacy: The force of digital distractions & corporatization --
Media socialization and press pacification through journalism education --
Conclusion: Complicating media control's collective identity.
"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"--
9781501320132
Mass media--Political aspects--History--20th century--United States
Mass media--Political aspects--History--21st century.--United States
Journalism--Political aspects--History--20th century.--United States
Journalism--Political aspects--History--21st century.--United States
Press and politics--United States
Social control--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
Journalism--Political aspects
Mass media--Political aspects
Press and politics
Social control
302.230973 GU ME