Sociology of Journalism

Journalism is a privileged cultural form. It can bring down governments <br/> influence wars shift stock markets and destroy industries. It is the <br/>main source of our knowledge about the world and our place in it and <br/>the point at which the individual and the social worlds meet.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Referring<br/> to cases drawn from both the US and the UK including the White House <br/>sex scandals and the death of Diana this book examines the various <br/>factors involved in the making of contemporary journalism including <br/>economic and political pressures changes in the technology of news <br/>gathering and production and the growing role of sources and 'source <br/>strategies'. The text analyses how such factors come to exert influence <br/>on the form content and style of journalism and reviews current <br/>approaches to the sociology impact of journalism on individuals groups <br/>and organisations.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The Sociology of Journalism combines<br/> a comprehensive survey of the elements of journalistic production with <br/>critical analysis of traditional liberal pluralist and materialist <br/>perspectives on the subject. It calls for an approach which recognises <br/>the chaotic unpredictability and discursive instability of contemporary <br/>cultural production and of journalism in particular.