Bill Reader

Audience Feedback in the News Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the earliest letters to the editor to the often rancorous online forums. The goal is to help those who manage, study, or use the forums to better understand the complex history and social necessity of such forums in a civilized society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138775336
• ISBN-10: 1138775339
• Artikelnr.: 41375586

Autorenporträt

Bill Reader is Associate Professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Audience Comments, the Spice of History 2. "Packets of
Letters": Audience Comments before Freedom of the Press 3. "A Sure Sign of
Liberty, and a Cause of It": Audience Feedback and the Emergence of the
Free Press 4. Commodification of Comments: Professional Bias and
Gatekeeping of Letters to the Editor 5. Professional Journalism's
Transformation of "A Quaint Tradition" 6. The Concerning "Crackpots": The
Media's Love-Hate Relationship with Feedback 7. "In my opinion ...":
Commenting as Individual Agency 8. "We, the people ...": Commenting as
Collective Action 9. Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an Age without Fences