Physical Description:print viii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction. anthropology of news and journalism : why now? / S. Elizabeth Bird -- 1. News production, ethnography, and power : on the challenges of newsroom-centricity / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen -- 2. U.S. Newsworld : the rule of text and everyday practices of editing the world / Zeynep Devrim Gursel -- 3. Covering the barrier in Bethlehem : the production of sympathy and the reproduction of difference / Amahl Bishara -- 4. News and myth in Venezuela : the press and the Chavez revolution / Joseph C. Manzella and Leon I. Yacher -- 5. "The camera was my weapon" : reporting and representing war in socialist Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- 6. Empowerment through local news making : studying the media/public interface in India / Ursula Rao -- 7. Mount Chance, Montserrat, and the media : global British journalism under local fire / Jonathan Skinner -- 8. Journalism as fieldwork : propaganda, complicity, and the ethics of anthropology / Jennifer Hasty --
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