Social Construction of International News We're Talking about Them, They're Talking about Us

Name: Social Construction of International News We're Talking about Them, They're Talking about Us
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ISBN: 9780275978105

ISBN-10: 0275978109

ISBN-13: 9780275978105

Edition: 2002

Authors: Philo C. Wasburn

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Wasburn compares U.S. commercial news reports on a wide variety of events with those produced by the news media of several other nations. The events include the Falklands War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Tiananmen Square Uprising, several political assassinations, major trade disputes between the U.S. and Japan, the Intifada, U.S. presidential nominating conventions and a presidential inauguration. Different patterns of coverage--amount of attention given an event, language used to describe an event, selection of particular occurrences to characterize an event, and descriptions of U.S. and international public opinion of the event--are shown to reflect different political, economic, and…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.012

PHILO C. WASBURN is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. He is the author of Political Sociology: Approaches, Concepts, Hypotheses and Broadcast Propaganda: International Radio Broadcasting and the Construction of Political Reality (Praeger, 1992).



Series Foreword


Introduction



What Our News Media Say



We're Talking about Us: the Social Construction of the United States by America's Commercial News Media



We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Wars between Other Nations



We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Other Nations' Internal Wars and Assassinations



What Their News Media Say: Four Case Studies



The United States as a Former Enemy: Russian National Television Construction of the United States after the Collapse of the Soviet Union



The United States as a World Military Power: an Indonesian Newspaper's View of the United States in the Persian Gulf Crisis



The United States as a World Economic Power: Radio Japan's View of the United States in International Trade Disputes



The United States as a Friend-At-A-Distance: Views of the 1996 Presidential Nominating Conventions and the Presidential Inauguration on British, Canadian, and French Television



Implications



Reassessing Our News Media and Our Understanding of Others and Ourselves


References


Author Index


Subject Index


About the Author