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As one of our country's major social problems, homelessness is often in the news. The media tend to portray the homeless as drunk, stoned, crazy, or sick individuals-a portrayal that is only partly accurate and represents an obstacle to our understanding of the wider social implications of this complex issue. This edited collection examines the various ways-both verbal and visual-in which the homeless have been portrayed by the media from the 1980s to the present day. The contributors apply different frameworks, ranging from phenomenology to culture studies, to analyze the characteristics, implications, and consequences of the stories and images disseminated by the media.
List of contents
Introduction
For Cultural Interpretation: A Study of the Culture of Homelessness by John Fiske
Covering the Homelessness: The Joyce Brown Story by Richard Campbell and Jimmie L. Reeves
Re-Covering the Homeless: Hindsights on the Joyce Brown Story by Jimmie Reeves
Media Image and the Culture of Homeless: Possibilities for Identification by Gerald Power
Informing and Educating the Media--A Hopeful Perspective on the Media and the Homeless by Jeremy Reynalds
Discourse Analysis of Television News on Public Antagonism against the Homeless by Insung Whang and Eungjun Min
A Computational, Linguistic Analysis of the Representation of the Homeless in Electronic Media by Rebecca Ann Lind and James A. Danowski
Blaming the Homeless: The Populist Aspect of Network T.V. News by Insung Whang and Eungjun Min
Homelessness: The Other as Object by Eric Mark Kramer and Soobum Lee
From Tramps to Truth-Seekers: Images of the Homeless in Motion Pictures by Linda K. Fuller
The Effect of Pictures on the Attribution of Homelessness by Andrew Mendelson
Japanese Furoosha (Bums) and Hoomuresu (Homeless): Living in the Shadow of Wealth by Richiko Ikeda and Eric M. Kramer
Index
About the author
EUNGJUN MIN is Associate Professor of Communications at Rhode Island College./e His research focuses on cultural approaches to studying media representations, their construction, and their impact on culture. He is also interested in crosscultural communication and cultural perspectives of new communication technologies.
