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082 _a302.230973 GU ME
100 1 _aGutsche, Robert E.,
_d1980-
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245 1 0 _aMedia control :
_bnews as an institution of power and social control
_cRobert E. Gutsche, Jr.
260 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury,
_c2017.
300 _ax, 383 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _a"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"--
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