[ecrea] New Book: Journalism and Meaning-making

>NEW BOOK
>Rupar, Verica (Ed.) 2010. Journalism and Meaning- making: Reading 
>the Newspaper. Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press
>
>Journalism and Meaning-making: Reading the Newspaper is a collection 
>of essays that puts the issue of making sense of reality at the 
>center of the debate about journalism. Intellectually challenging 
>and provocative, the essays invite readers to think critically about 
>the information circulating in the news media, and to explore the 
>position of journalism in society. Well-illustrated case studies 
>from accross the globe support historical, linguistic, sociological 
>and cultural analyses of the tools, techniques and rules journalists 
>use to represent, interpret and construct reality.
>
>Table of contents:
>
>PART ONE: HOW THE NEWS MAKES SENSE
>
>Journalism as performative discourse: The importance of form and 
>style in journalism (Marcel Broersma)
>
>What's wrong with narrative theories of news? (Donald Matheson)
>
>An invitation to compare journalism histories (Svennik Hoyer)
>
>PART TWO: JOURNALISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE
>
>Journalism and social change: A hundred years of the New Zealand 
>daily The Dominion (Post) (Verica Rupar)
>
>To compete or to cooperate: Ownership, cooperation and the news in 
>NZPA (Grant Hannis)
>
>Traditional and Innovative Trends in Journalism Reporting Practices 
>in Cross-media Environments (Ebbe Grunwald)
>
>Tabloidization: Form, Style and Socio-Cultural Change (David Rowe)
>
>PART THREE: JOURNALISM AND MEDIATION OF REALITY
>
>Journalism and celebrity politics (Libby Lester)
>
>Death in the media: The Port Arthur Massacre and the Thredbo 
>Landslide (Annona Pearse)
>
>Having it both ways? Images and text face off in the broadsheet 
>feature story (Dorothy Economou)
>
>What you see and what you get: The evolving role of news photographs 
>in an Australian broadsheet (Helen Caple)
>
>
>Dr Verica Rupar
>Lecturer
>Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies
>Cardiff University
>Bute Building 0.61B
>King Edward VII Avenue
>Cardiff
>CF10 3NB
>Tel. (029) 208 75 461
>Email: (RuparV /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)

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