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  • How the Cold War Broke the News

    The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline

    Most of us would agree that American journalism has problems. Rushed reporting and thin coverage. Timidity in the face of adversity. Polarized perspectives and euphemistic language. Groupthink about complicated events.While much blame has been levelled at big tech, Barbie Zelizer traces the decline of American journalism to the Cold War. She makes the bold claim that Cold War-era practices are to ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Journalism Manifesto

    Series series The Manifesto Series
    Drawing on the collaborative expertise of three senior scholars, The Journalism Manifesto makes a powerful case for why journalism has become outdated and why it is in need of a long-overdue transformation.Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and audiences, Zelizer, Boczkowski and Anderson reveal how these previously integral components of journalism have become outdated: Elites, the sources ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • About to Die

    How News Images Move the Public

    Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Tabloid Tales

    Global Debates over Media Standards

    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • What Journalism Could Be

    What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism�s leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalism�s complicated contours, prompting readers to rethink both how the news works and why it matters.Zelizer tackles longstanding givens ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Journalism After September 11

    Edited by Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    **Praise for the first edition:This collection of essays comes mainly from academics but nobody should bridle at theorists lecturing practitioners. They properly challenge the way September 11th was reported - in a way that's both an endorsement of the role of the media and a wake-up call on its failures . . . anyone interested in our trade should read it.'** - Roger Mosey, Ariel**'A thoughtful ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • About to Die

    How News Images Move the Public

    Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Framing Public Memory

    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memoriesThe study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Reporting War

    Journalism in Wartime

    Edited by Stuart Allan, Barbie Zelizer ...
    Reporting War explores the social responsibilities of the journalist during times of military conflict. News media treatments of international crises, especially the one underway in Iraq, are increasingly becoming the subject of public controversy, and discussion is urgently needed.Each of this book's contributors challenges familiar assumptions about war reporting from a distinctive perspective. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Taking Journalism Seriously

    News and the Academy

    "Barbie Zelizer provides enormous service to students and scholars with this comprehensive and highly persuasive critique of the literature in and about journalism as both process and practice, as a profession and an industry. Zelizer takes a step back to look at what we know about news, and she does not pull her punches in pointing out what we do not know."-Linda Steiner, Rutgers University ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Explorations in Communication and History

    Edited by Barbie Zelizer ...
    Series series Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies
    When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know?Explorations in Communication and Historyaddresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. Asking how each discipline has enhanced and hindered our understanding of the other, the book considers what happens to what we ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Making the University Matter

    Edited by Barbie Zelizer ...
    Series series Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies
    Making the University Matter investigates how academics situate themselves simultaneously in the university and the world and how doing so affects the viability of the university setting.The university stands at the intersection of two sets of interests, needing to be at one with the world while aspiring to stand apart from it. In an era that promises intensified political instability, growing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD