The Anthropology of News and Journalism

The Anthropology of News and Journalismis the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective_as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and ethnographic methods provide powerful insights for analyzing case studies from around the world. Essays by leading scholars explore communities of professional and nonprofessional journalists. They describe news-making processes ranging from the local to The global digital environment, As well as how news is disseminated and received in a variety of cultural settings.Contributorsare S. Elizabeth Bird, Amahl Bishara, Dominic C. Boyer, Dorle Drackleacute;, Zeynep Devrim Guuml;rsel, Jennifer Hasty, Joseph C. Manzella, Kerry McCallum, Mark Pedelty, Mark Allen Peterson, Ursula Rao, Adrienne Russell, Christina Schwenkel, Jonathan Skinner, Debra Spitulnik, Maria D. Vesperi, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, and Leon I. Yacher.

S. Elizabeth Bird is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She is author of The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World and editor of Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Why Now?
Ethnography of News Production
News Production, Ethnography, and Power: On the Challenges of Newsroom-Centricity	p. 21
U.S. Newsworld: The Rule of Text and Everyday Practices of Editing the World	p. 35
Covering the Barrier in Bethlehem: The Production of Sympathy and the Reproduction of Difference	p. 54
News and Myth in Venezuela: The Press and the Chávez Revolution	p. 71
"The Camera Was My Weapon": Reporting and Representing War in Socialist Vietnam	p. 86
Empowerment through Local News Making: Studying the Media/Public Interface in India	p. 100
Mount Chance, Montserrat, and the Media: Global British Journalism under Local Fire	p. 116
Journalism as Fieldwork: Propaganda, Complicity, and the Ethics of Anthropology	p. 132
News Practices in Everyday Life
News and Local Talk: Conversations about the "Crisis of Indigenous Violence" in Australia	p. 151
Getting the News in New Delhi: Newspaper Literacies in an Indian Mediascape	p. 168
Personal News and the Price of Public Service: An Ethnographic Window into the Dynamics of Production and Reception in Zambian State Radio	p. 182
Gossip and Resistance: Local News Media in Transition: A Case Study from the Alentejo, Portugal	p. 199
Musical News: Popular Music in Political Movements	p. 215
News in the Era of New Media
Making (Sense of) News in the Era of Digital Information	p. 241
When Common Sense No Longer Holds: The Shifting Locus of News Production in the United States	p. 257
Salon.com and New-Media Professional Journalism Culture	p. 270
Works Cited	p. 283
List of Contributors	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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