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Zusatztext Gutsche succeeds in what he set out to do. He contributes critical, nuanced, accessible analysis of the press as an act of power. The book succeeds for three reasons. First, Gutsche effectively married theory to analysis. No one will accuse him of academic laziness. Second, his use of recent events such as the Sandy Hook massacre capitalizes on reader memory. Finally, Gutsche’s passion bleeds from each page. If it is true that all research is autobiographical, then may we all be so willing to look within ourselves for what needs to be studied next. Informationen zum Autor Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is Senior Lecturer of Critical Digital Media Practice in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University (UK). He was Assistant Professor of journalism and digital media studies at Florida International University in Miami. Vorwort A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate. Zusammenfassung Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control challenges traditional (and even some radical) perceptions of how the news works. While it’s clear that journalists don’t operate objectively – reporters don’t just cover news, but they make it – Media Control goes a step further by arguing that the cultural institution of news approaches and presents everyday information from particular and dominant cultural positions that benefit the power elite. From analysing how the press operate as police agents by conducting surveillance and instituting social order through its coverage of crime and police action to bolstering private business and neoliberal principles by covering the news through notions of boosterism, Media Control presents the news through a cultural lens. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. introduces or advances readers’ applications of critical race theory and cultural studies scholarship to explore cultural meanings within news coverage of police action, the criminal justice system, and embedding into the news democratic values that are later used by the power elite to oppress and repress portions of the citizenry. Media Control helps the reader explicate how the power elite use the press and the veil of the Fourth Estate to further white ideologies and American Imperialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsPreface Introduction I. The Experience of Experiencing Power: A BeginningII. Purpose of the BookIII. Plan of the Book 1. Power, Propaganda & the Purpose of News I. Explicating the Embassy Evacuations: The Purpose of Banal NewsII. Power: A Briefing on News as CommodityIII. Incorporating the News: Joining ‘The Power Elite’ IV. Conclusion: Interpreting News as Propaganda 2. Making News: Purposes, Practices & Pandering I. News as National Rhetoric: The Boston BombingII. Narratives of Journalism Studies: Politics, Profits & Media-makingIII. From Social Power to ‘Media Power’IV. Interpreting Journalism Through Levels of Analysis 3. Displacement & Punishment: The Press as Place-makers I. Here is Not There: Place Ideologies in the Press II. The Power of ‘Othering’ in Press Characterizations of Place & RaceIII. News Place-making as ‘The New Jim Crow’IV. Conclusion: Media Displacement as Punishment 4. News as Cultural Distraction: Controversy, Conspiracy & Collective Forgetting I. Controversy or Bust: Media Commitment to Crazy in National CrisesII. The Distraction of ‘Conspiracy Theory’: News, Fear & The Need for ProtectionIII. Militarization & Media Violence: The Warfare of Urban MemoryIV. Conclusion: Collective Forgetting & Media Control 5. Normalizing Media Surveillance: Media Waiting, Watching & Shaming I. Media Waiting: Fearing South Beach’s Urban Beach WeekII. Media Watching: The Function of Media SurveillanceIII. Media Shaming: Normalizi...
