Audience Feedback in the News Media

ISBN-13: 9781138548657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str.

Bill Reader

Opis

This book provides a history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the earliest letters to the editor to the often rancorous online forums. The goal is to help those who manage, study, or use the forums to better understand the complex history and social necessity of such forums in a civilized society.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Audience Comments, the Spice of History  2. "Packets of Letters": Audience Comments before Freedom of the Press  3. "A Sure Sign of Liberty, and a Cause of It": Audience Feedback and the Emergence of the Free Press  4. Commodification of Comments: Professional Bias and Gatekeeping of Letters to the Editor  5. Professional Journalism's Transformation of  "A Quaint Tradition"  6. The Concerning "Crackpots": The Media's Love-Hate Relationship with Feedback  7. "In my opinion ...": Commenting as Individual Agency  8. "We, the people ...": Commenting as Collective Action  9. Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an Age without Fences

O autorze

Bill Reader is Associate Professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, USA