Journalism and popular culture / edited by Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks.
Contributor(s): Dahlgren, Peter
| Sparks, ColinPublisher: London : SAGE, 1992Description: vi, 210 p. ill.; 24 cm001: 14067ISBN: 0803986718; 9780803986718Subject(s): Journalism | Popular cultureDDC classification: 302.23 LOC classification: PN4733
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In counterpoint to conventional examinations of images of journalism which tend to concentrate on its informational role in the political process, this book provides a lively analysis of journalism in its other guise - as entertainment.
In a series of interrelated studies, the authors examine the theoretical problems in assessing popular journalism and consider common examples of its manifestations - its relationship to media stars, the coverage of sport, and the presentation of news in a `popular′ form.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Journalism as Popular Culture
- Introduction
- Popular Journalism
- Theories and Practice
- Popularity and the Politics of Information
- Part 2 Aspects of The Popular Media
- Personalities in the Popular Media
- The Aesthetics and Politics of Melodrama
- Modes of Sports Writing
- Truly Awful News on Television
- Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press
- Part 3 Popular Journalism in Practice
- How US News Media Represent Sexual Minorities
- Oliver North and the News
- The San Francisco Earthquake and the 1989 World Series
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CHOICE Review
When Tom Wolfe and his followers declared the era of "new journalism" two decades ago, they could not have envisioned the professional and academic turmoil that would result from accommodating genres that failed to follow conventional definitions of journalism. Modern journalism has become a fixture of popular culture, but who can best evaluate its basic tenets journalists or those outside the field? The editors of this fine collection, compiled from a Stockholm University colloquium, suggest journalists may not be up to the task, precisely because the field maintains "a defensive position of boundary maintenance" that prevents outside probes. Traditional journalism fails to embrace or even consider what Dahlgren calls "remainder categories" within the field: the tabloid press and "reality based television" chief among them. This division between "serious" journalism and its other subcultural genres is examined well through a historical approach, tracing the sources of this division to the stigma associated with "popular" culture as far back as the Renaissance. Collectively, these 11 essay suggest that there is not really a significant difference between "serious" journalism and its popular tabloid cousins. Especially successful are "Photojournalism the Tabloid Press" and "How US News Media Represent Sexual Minorities." Each advances "the opportunity for a constructive renewal of journalism's self-definition." Traditional journalism's very future may depend upon such a reconciliation of its populist roots with today's cultural realities. Primarily for graduate students and faculty. A. J. Silvia Jr.; University of Rhode IslandThere are no comments on this title.