Binding: Paperback
Description: " The authors are familiar with the emerging jargon of media convergence and they define large parts of it well. They have also laboured impressively to gather and define useful examples of journalese This book is a labour of love that reflects immense care and learning. It makes a helpful contribution to a fledgling field of academia and to uniting the cultures of news and journalism studies." Tim Luckhurst University of Kent UK This comprehensive glossary offers clear and insightful definitions of the most significant keywords in news and journalism studies. Ranging from 'above the fold to 'zinger' and with over 400 terms in between it covers words associated with newspapers radio and television news magazines photojournalism and internet reporting. Other examples include 'agenda setting' 'libel' 'news values' 'objectivity 'scoop and 'tabloidization'. Written by two of the field's leading scholars it offers an informed perspective on the key terms. It considers a range of genres including business crime environmental fashion lifestyle investigative science sports and war journalism as well as looking at new alternatives such as Wikinews and Twitter'. This lively and engaging treatment will provide students researchers and journalists with a solid grounding in the fast - moving vocabulary of news and journalism studies.
Title: Keywords In News And Journalism Studies
Author(s): Allan Stuart
Publisher: Open University Press
Barcode: 9780335221837
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2010
Category: Press & Journalism