Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control Contributor(s): Gutsche Jr, Robert E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501320130 ISBN-13: 9781501320132 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Political Science | Political Process - Media & Internet |
Dewey: 302.230 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.22 lbs) 400 pages |
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Publisher Description: Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control challenges traditional (and even some radical) perceptions of how the news works. While it's clear that journalists don't operate objectively - reporters don't just cover news, but they make it - Media Control goes a step further by arguing that the cultural institution of news approaches and presents everyday information from particular and dominant cultural positions that benefit the power elite. From analysing how the press operate as police agents by conducting surveillance and instituting social order through its coverage of crime and police action to bolstering private business and neoliberal principles by covering the news through notions of boosterism, Media Control presents the news through a cultural lens. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. introduces or advances readers' applications of critical race theory and cultural studies scholarship to explore cultural meanings within news coverage of police action, the criminal justice system, and embedding into the news democratic values that are later used by the power elite to oppress and repress portions of the citizenry. Media Control helps the reader explicate how the power elite use the press and the veil of the Fourth Estate to further white ideologies and American Imperialism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jr, Robert E. Gutsche: - Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University, USA. He has published in journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Journalism Practice. His first book deals with news coverage of black diaspora in the U.S. and is due out in Spring 2014. |