Alarming reports
Subtitle: communicating conflict in the daily news
By: Andrew Arno.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781845455798
Subjects: Social conflict in mass media; Discourse analysis -- Social aspects; Mass media -- Social aspects; Mass media and anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: News and the anthropology of conflict communication; title: The dark side of the media: news as control communication; title: Two theories of news: the civic model and the conflict discourse systems model; title: The news act: news analysis and semiotic theory; title: News and law as conflict communication systems; title: News in extra-textual terrain; title: Policy talk: in law, on the street, and on television; title: Order, disorder, and the news media in western society: whose side are they on?