News of the World: World Cultures Look at Television News

by Klaus Bruhn Jensen (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134719983
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2003
Series:	Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	1 MB

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.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Belarus 3 Denmark 4 India 5 Israel 6 Italy 7 Mexico 8 The United States 9 Conclusion