{"product_id":"taking-journalism-seriously-news-and-the-academy-9780803973145","title":"Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Barbie Zelizer provides enormous service to students and scholars with this comprehensive and highly persuasive critique of the literature in and about journalism as both process and practice  as a profession and an industry. Zelizer takes a step back to look at what we know about news  and she does not pull her punches in pointing out what we do not know.\" -Linda Steiner  Rutgers University \"Zelizers encyclopedic review of scholarly studies of journalism fills an important need for researchers  and comparing that scholarship across disciplines  generations and countries makes it even more valuable. . . Her analyses will be invaluable for media research and should also spur interest in journalism among the social science and other disciplines she studied. . .The book is an impressive achievement.\"  -Herbert J. Gans  Columbia University and author of Democracy and the News \"Taking Journalism Seriously is a refulgent analysis of the condition of journalism studies. Zelizer has produced a critical and lasting contribution to our understanding of the position of news  journalism and journalism practice within the disciplines of political science  sociology  psychology  philosophy  language and cultural studies. This excellent book is an engaging and sophisticated treatise on both the historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives of journalism scholarship.\"  -Howard Tumber  City University  London  How have scholars tended to conceptualize news  newsmaking  journalism  journalists  and the news media? Which explanatory frames have they used to explore journalistic practice? From which fields of inquiry have they borrowed in shaping their assumptions about how journalism works? In Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy  author Barbie Zelizer discusses questions about the viability of the field of journalism scholarship and examines journalism as a discipline  a profession  a practice  and a cultural phenomenon. Taking Journalism Seriously argues that scholars have remained too entrenched within their own disciplinary areas resulting in isolated bodies of scholarship. This is the first book to critically survey journalism scholarship in one volume and organize it by disparate fields. The book reviews existing journalism research in such diverse fields as sociology  history  language studies  political science  and cultural analysis and dissects the most prevalent and understated research in each discipline. The author provides a critical mapping of the field of journalism studies and encourages academics to look at journalism from various disciplinary perspectives. Taking Journalism Seriously advocates a realignment of the ways in which journalism has traditionally been conceptualized and urges scholars to think anew about what journalism is as well as reflect on why they see it as they do. Taking Journalism Seriously is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in advanced courses on Journalism and Journalism Studies. It will also be of interest to scholars  academics  and researchers in the fields of Journalism  Communication  Media Studies  Sociology  and Cultural Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652015611957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0803973144","price":151.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780803973145.jpg?v=1781848760","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/taking-journalism-seriously-news-and-the-academy-9780803973145","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}