Abstract:The two books under review here sit at opposing ends of a continuum of possible approaches in the study of mediated communication around the globe. Cosmopolitan Communications by Pippa Norris and Rona...The two books under review here sit at opposing ends of a continuum of possible approaches in the study of mediated communication around the globe. Cosmopolitan Communications by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart offers a broad comparative study of the effects that exposure to news media flows has on the values of individuals. The book features clear causal assumptions and standardized survey data (from the World Values Survey) collected in an identical fashion in several dozens countries (56 in the last wave). The Anthropology of News and Journalism edited by S. Elizabeth Bird, on the other hand, presents a collection of ethnographic studies of news production and reception in 11 countries around the globe, along with a number of meta-theoretical chapters reflecting on the current state of ethnographic study of news and journalism. The studies are based on participant observation, unstructured interviews, textual and visual interpretation, among other methods, and...Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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