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Informationen zum Autor Peter Dahlgren is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Stockholm. He is the author or editor of numerous works in Swedish and of two books in English, both of which he edited with Colin Sparks: Communication and Citizenship (Sage, 1991) and Journalism and Popular Culture (Sage, 1992). Colin Sparks is a professor at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies at the Univeristy of Westminster and Co-Editor of Media, Culture and Society . Anna Reading is a lecturer at Southbank University and Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society . Klappentext 'In the staid world of journalism research, it is a delight to see an attempt to open that focus of inquiry to new interpretive frames.... this volume takes definitive steps toward achieving that aim' - Popular Communication Zusammenfassung 'In the staid world of journalism research, it is a delight to see an attempt to open that focus of inquiry to new interpretive frames.... this volume takes definitive steps toward achieving that aim' - Popular Communication Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: JOURNALISM AS POPULAR CULTURE Introduction - Peter Dahlgren Popular Journalism - Colin Sparks Theories and Practice Popularity and the Politics of Information - John Fiske PART TWO: ASPECTS OF THE POPULAR MEDIA Personalities in the Popular Media - Ian Connell The Aesthetics and Politics of Melodrama - Jostein Gripsrud Modes of Sports Writing - David Rowe Truly Awful News on Television - John Langer Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press - Karin E Becker PART THREE: POPULAR JOURNALISM IN PRACTICE How US News Media Represent Sexual Minorities - Marguerite J Moritz Oliver North and the News - Robin Andersen The San Francisco Earthquake and the 1989 World Series - Roberta E Pearson
