[ecrea] Producing Serious News for Citizen Children by Julian Matthews

>Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A 
>Study of the BBCs Childrens Program Newsround 
>by Julian Matthews (Edwin Mellen, 2010)
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Producing-Serious-News-Citizen-Children/dp/0773436537
>
>An ethnographic study that examines the changing 
>history, personnel and production regime of the 
>BBC's popular children's news program, "Newsround".
>
>Introduction
>Chapter 1: Old issues and new(s) agendas
>Chapter 2: Inside programme production
>Chapter 3: Visualizing Newsround's agenda, stance and style
>Chapter 4: 'Naturalizing' the news: the mediation of the environmental agenda
>Chapter 5: Mediating news voices: 'out of the mouths of babes and experts'
>Chapter 6: Constructing the environmental issue: 
>mediating environmental language
>Chapter 7: Conclusion
>Bibliography; Index.
>
>Reviews
>This book provides an exemplary template for 
>future studies that set out to explore and 
>refine our understanding of todays 
>fast-changing news ecology and how this now 
>variously provides or restricts opportunities 
>for enhanced cultural citizenship. ­ Prof. 
>Simon Cottle, University of Cardiff
>
>. . . makes for provocative reading and is 
>certain to contribute to lively discussion and 
>debate. ­ Prof. Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University
>
>. . . challenges the notion that that news 
>media simply reflect the objective state of 
>environmental affairs. . . . underscores how 
>news professionals visualizations of this 
>distinctive news program have a profound impact 
>on upon news agendas and news access. ­ Dr. 
>Alison Anderson, University of Plymouth
>

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