Synopses & Reviews
Michael Schudson treats soberly and skeptically a great deal of what passes for wisdom about the press in popular opinion, academic research, and journalists" own self-understanding. The book"s ultimate objective is not to settle controversies involving the press, but to define them and to characterize the role that news institutions play in the formation of modern public consciousness. The Sociology of Newsis part of the Contemporary Societies series
Synopsis
Michael Schudson treats soberly and skeptically a great deal of what passes for wisdom about the press in popular opinion, academic research, and journalists' own self-understanding. The book's ultimate objective is not to settle controversies involving the press, but to define them and to characterize the role that news institutions play in the formation of modern public consciousness. is part of the Contemporary Societies series
Synopsis
offers a brief, but comprehensive account of the origins, structures, operating practices, codes, and cultures of the contemporary news media, analyzing the question of the consequences of news on society--and politics, in particular.
About the Author
Michael Schudson is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since l980. He is the author of five books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, and cultural memory. He has received a number of awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship; a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto; and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, which recognized him as an "interpreter of public culture."