Eungjun Min

Reading the Homeless (eBook, PDF)

The Media's Image of Homeless Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313024986
• Artikelnr.: 37822230

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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