Resisting The News Engaged Audiences Alternative Media And Popular Critique Of Journalism | Media & Cultural Studies

Resisting the News brings together unique insights from activists and alternative-media users to offer a distinctive perspective on the problems of journalism today-and how to fix them. Using critical-cultural theory and in particular the conceptual frameworks of ritual communication and interpretive communities this book examines how audiences filter their interpretations of mainstream news through the prisms of their identities and experiences with alternative media and political protest. Jennifer Rauch gives voice to alternative-media audiences and illuminates the cultural resources values assumptions critical skills and discursive strategies through which they make sense of their news environments. Drawing on a 15-year research project Rauch employs a variety of qualitative quantitative and quasi-ethnographic methods including focus groups media-use diaries close-ended surveys and open-ended questions to paint a layered portrait of liberal and conservative critiques of journalism. Shedding new light on popular theories about how news works and about mass audiences this book will be useful to students scholars and teachers of political communication journalism studies media studies and critical-cultural studies. |Resisting the News Engaged Audiences Alternative Media and Popular Critique of Journalism | Media & Cultural Studies