Common Knowledge News and the Construction of Political Meaning

Name: Common Knowledge News and the Construction of Political Meaning
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ISBN: 9780226574400

ISBN-10: 0226574407

ISBN-13: 9780226574400

Edition: 1992

Authors: W. Russell Neuman, Marion R. Just, Ann N. Crigler

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Photo opportunities, ten-second sound bites, talking heads and celebrity anchors: so the world is explained daily to millions of Americans. The result, according to the experts, is an ignorant public, helpless targets of a one-way flow of carefully filtered and orchestrated communication. Common Knowledge shatters this pervasive myth. Reporting on a ground-breaking study, the authors reveal that our shared knowledge and evolving political beliefs are determined largely by how we actively reinterpret the images, fragments, and signals we find in the mass media. For their study, the authors analyzed coverage of 150 television and newspaper stories on five prominent issues--drugs, AIDS,…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.85" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



List of Figures List of Tables


Preface



Knowledge in Common



The Study Design



Five Issues, Three News Media



Making Sense of the News



Media Matter



Learning from the News



Constructing Meaning


An Appendix on Method Notes


References


Index