The Anthropology of News and Journalism / Indiana University Press

The Anthropology of News and Journalism

Global Perspectives

Edited by S. Elizabeth Bird

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News and journalism in contemporary culture

"A thoughtful, persuasive, necessary, and long overdue tracking of the intersection connecting journalism and anthropology." —Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

"Extends the dialogue between anthropology and journalism into fruitful realms, focusing as it does on news in particular, rather than broader issues involving the mass media." —Michael Evans, School of Journalism, Indiana University

The Anthropology of News and Journalism is 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.

Contributors are S. Elizabeth Bird, Amahl Bishara, Dominic C. Boyer, Dorle Dracklé, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, 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.

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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.

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Distribution: World

Publication date: 10/23/2009

Format: paper 344 pages, 1 b&w illus., 6.125 x 9.25

ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22126-1