Media and Social Inequality: Innovations in Community Structure Research

ISBN-13: 9780415631181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 194 str.

John C. Pollock

Opis

This text is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, 'Media and Social Inequality' explores the reverse perspective: the impact of society on media.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Community Structure Scholarship: An Emerging Realignment John C. Pollock  2. Structural Pluralism in Journalism and Media Studies: A Concept Explication and Theory Construction Seungahn Nah and Cory L. Armstrong  3. Mass Media as a Macrolevel Source of Social Control: A New Direction in the Community Structure Model Masahiro Yamamoto  4. Social Capital in a Community Context: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual- and Community-Level Predictors of Social Trust Douglas Blanks Hindman and Masahiro Yamamoto  5. Structural Determinants of Local Public Affairs Place Blogging: Structural Pluralism and Community Stress Brendan R. Watson and Daniel Riffe  6. Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of Universal Healthcare: A Community Structure Approach Kristen Kiernicki, John C. Pollock and Patrick Lavery  7. Structural Pluralism and the Community Context: How and When Does the Environment Matter? Leo Jeffres, Edward Horowitz, Cheryl C. Bracken, Guowei Jian, Kimberly A. Neuendorf and Sukki Yoon  8. Shaping the Agenda of Local Daily Newspapers: A Methodology Merging the Agenda Setting and Community Structure Perspectives Maxwell McCombs and Marcus Funk

O autorze

John C. Pollock (Ph.D., Stanford) is a Professor in the Communication Studies Department at The College of New Jersey, USA. He was Senior Fulbright Scholar, Argentina, 2010 and is the author of Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment with Political and Social Change – A Community Structure Approach (2007). His major research and teaching interests include health communication, journalism, and mass communication, in particular comparative methologies (cross-national or multi-city) exploring the impact of society on media.