Resisting the news : engaged audiences, alternative media, and popular critique of journalism / Jennifer Rauch.

"Resisting the News brings together unique insights from activists and alternative-media users to offer a distinctive perspective on the problems of journalism today-and how to fix them. Using critical-cultural theory and, in particular, the conceptual frameworks of ritual communication and interpre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rauch, Jennifer (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Subjects:
Journalism > United States > History > 21st century.
News audiences > United States > History > 21st century.
Journalism > Technologial innovations.
Critical theory.
Journalism.
News audiences.
United States.
2000-2099
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Popular theories of mainstream and alternative news
  • The probability of resistance in empirical news audiences
  • Parsing divergent responses to mainstream news
  • Lay theories about the mass audience for news
  • Lay theories about the political economy of news
  • Activist interactions with mainstream journalism
  • Alternative media rituals and subcultural capital
  • News omnivores, hybrid media, and alternative ideas
  • Partisan interpretations of media problems and solutions
  • Journalism in an age of alternatives
  • Appendix A: Interview guide
  • Appendix B: Diary instructions and sample page
  • Appendix C: Survey questions
  • Appendix D: Additional qualitative survey data.