The manufacture of news : social problems, deviance and the mass media / Stanley Cohen and Jock Young, editors

Contributor(s): Cohen, Stanley | Young, JockMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Communication and society ; 4Publisher: London : Beverly Hills, Calif. : Constable ; Sage Publications, c1981Edition: Revised editionDescription: 506 p. ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0094637903; 9780094637900Subject(s): Journalism -- Social aspects | Journalism Social aspectsAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Manufacture of news.DDC classification: 302.23 Also issued online
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Table of Contents

Part one. The process of selection
Information and the definition of deviance / Leslie Wilkins
The selection of crime news by the press / Bob Roshier
Structuring and selecting news / Johnan Galtung and Mari Ruge
News as eternal recurrence / Paul Rock
The complete stylization of news / Michael Frayn
The production of knowledge by crime reporters / Steve Chibnall
Crime waves as ideology / Mark Fishman
News as purposive behaviour : on the strategic use of routine events, accidents and scandals / Harvey Molotch and Marilyn Lester
The awful truth about strife in our factories : a case study in the production of news / Paul Edwards
A world at one with itself / Stuart Hall

Part two. Models of presentation
The symbolic annihilation of women by the mass media / Gaye Tuchman
Mental illness : what do media present / Jum C. Nunnally
Theories of behaviour and the image of the alcoholic in popular magazines, 1900-1966 / Arnold S. Linsky
Political deviance : the press presentation of a militant mass demonstration / Graham Murdock
The determinations of news photographs / Stuart Hall
Unit headline language / Michael Frayn
LSD and the press / William Braden
Mods and rockers : the inventory as manufactured news / Stanley Cohen
Sir, writing by candlelight … / E.P. Thompson
The mass media and racial conflict / Paul Hartmann and Charles Husband
The British press and the 'placing' of male homosexuality / Frank Pearce
Images of women in the media / Helen Butcher et al.
The myth of drug takers in the mass media / Jock Young
The social production of news : mugging in the media / Stuart Hall [and others]
Industrial conflict and the mass media / David Morley
Beyond the consensual paradigm : a critique of left functionalism in media theory / Jock Young

Part three. Effects and consequences
The amplification of drug use / Jock Young
Sensitization : the case of the mods and rockers / Stanley Cohen
News and public perceptions of industrial relations / Paul Hartmann
Enter the dragon / David Robins and Philip Cohen

Part four. Do-it-yourself media sociology

Includes bibliographical references

Also issued online

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