Crime and media: a reader
by Greer, Chris, (Chris R. H.)
This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprising a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, this book tackles a wide range of issues including: understanding media; researching media; crime, newsworthiness and news; crime, entertainment and creativity; effects, influence, and moral panic; and cybercrime, surveillance and risk. Specially devised introdu…
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- Full title :Crime and media : a reader / edited by Chris Greer.
Summary
This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprising a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, this book tackles a wide range of issues including: understanding media; researching media; crime, newsworthiness and news; crime, entertainment and creativity; effects, influence, and moral panic; and cybercrime, surveillance and risk. Specially devised introductory and linking sections contextualize each reading and evaluate its contribution to the field, both individually and in relation to competing approaches and debates. -- from Back Cover.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 601 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780367809195, 0367809192, 1000712680, 9781000712872, 1000712877, 9781000713060, 1000713067, 9781000712681
- DOI:10.4324/9780367809195
- oclc:on1107880432
- LC Classification:P96.C74
- Dewey Decimal:364
Table of Contents
Introduction -- 1. Understanding Media: -- The public sphere: an encyclopedia article (1974) -- The medium is the message (1964) -- A propaganda model (1988) -- Encoding-decoding (1980) -- An introduction to the information age (1997) -- Simulacra and simulations (1981) -- Neuromancer.
2. Researching Media: -- Research approaches (1987) -- Reading the news (1991) -- The determinations of news photographs (1973) -- Dimensions of genre (2000) -- Frame analysis (1995) -- The debate about media influence (2004) -- Researching cybercultures (2000).
3. Crime, Newsworthiness and News: -- Press ideology: the politics of professionalism (1977) -- The construction of crime news (2004) -- What makes crime 'news' (1987) -- The social production of news (1978) -- The media politics of crime and criminal justice (1991) -- Recovering blackness/repudiating whiteness (2005) -- 'She should be punished': the 1983-1984 New Bedford 'Big Dan's ' gang rape (1992).
4. Crime, Entertainment and Creativity: -- The typology of detective fiction (1966) -- The dialects of Dixon: the changing image of the TV cup (1994) -- From the hard-boiled detective to the pre-crime unit (2006) -- Casino culture: media an…
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