News of the World: World Cultures Look at Television News (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

ISBN 10: 041516107X / ISBN 13: 9780415161077

Published by Routledge, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: News of the World: World Cultures Look at Television News (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041516107X
• ISBN 13: 9780415161077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This is the first in-depth study of how television viewers around the world respond to the ever increasing mass of information available from news programmes. Based on individual and household interviews in seven countries including India, Mexico, Italy and Denmark, the contributors examine the flow of news information across national and international borders.

About the Author

Klaus Bruhn Jensen is Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, and the director of its research program, ‘The Visual Construction of Reality.’ He is the author of Making Sense of the News, The Social Semiotics of Mass Communication, and the co-editor of A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research.