Palmer Becoming the News

How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54476-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Ruth Palmer charts the arc of the experience of “making” the news, from the events that bring an ordinary person to journalists’ attention through their interactions with reporters and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Victims of the Press?
2. What’s in It for Them? Weighing the Pros and Cons of Becoming a News Subject
3. The Interview Stage Part 1: Encountering Journalists
4. The Interview Stage Part 2: From Interaction to Story
5. Truth (Perceptions) and Consequences: How News Subjects Judge Accuracy and Error
6. That’s Me!. But It’s Not Me: Aesthetic, Emotional, and Existential Effects of Confronting Our News Selves
7. Celebration, Condemnation, Reputation: Audience Feedback as an Indicator of Status and Stigma
8. Making the News in a Digital World
9. Lessons for Subjects and Journalists
Note on Method
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Palmer is an assistant professor of communications at IE University in Madrid and Segovia. Her work has been published in Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Literary Journalism Studies. She was also a writer and editor for the Knight Case Studies Initiative at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.