The Anthropology of News & Journalism: Global Perspectives

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Why Now? / S. Elizabeth Bird
Part 1. Ethnography of News Production
1. News Production, Ethnography, and Power: On the Challenges of Newsroom-Centricity / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
2. U.S. Newsworld: The Rule of Text and Everyday Practices of Editing the World / Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
3. Covering the Barrier in Bethlehem: The Production of Sympathy and the Reproduction of Difference / Amahl Bishara
4. News and Myth in Venezuela: The Press and the Chávez Revolution / Joseph C. Manzella and Leon I. Yacher
5. "The Camera Was My Weapon": Reporting and Representing War in Socialist Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
6. Empowerment through Local News Making: Studying the Media/Public Interface in India / Ursula Rao
7. Mount Chance, Montserrat, and the Media: Global British Journalism under Local Fire / Jonathan Skinner
8. Journalism as Fieldwork: Propaganda, Complicity, and the Ethics of Anthropology / Jennifer Hasty
Part 2. News Practices in Everyday Life
9. News and Local Talk: Conversations about the "Crisis of Indigenous Violence" in Australia / Kerry McCallum
10. Getting the News in New Delhi: Newspaper Literacies in an Indian Mediascape / Mark Allen Peterson
11. Personal News and the Price of Public Service: An Ethnographic Window into the Dynamics of Production and Reception in Zambian State Radio / Debra Spitulnik
12. Gossip and Resistance: Local News Media in Transition: A Case Study from the Alentejo, Portugal / Dorle Dracklé
13. Musical News: Popular Music in Political Movements / Mark Pedelty
Part 3. News in the Era of New Media
14. Making (Sense of) News in the Era of Digital Information / Dominic C. Boyer
15. When Common Sense No Longer Holds: The Shifting Locus of News Production in the United States / Maria D. Vesperi
16. Salon.com and New-Media Professional Journalism Culture / Adrienne Russell
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index

S. Elizabeth Bird is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She is author of The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World and editor of Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture.