Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight
- ISBN-10
- 0231183143
- ISBN-13
- 9780231183147
- Category
- Attribution of news
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Author
- Ruth Palmer
Description
Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Ruth Palmer charts the arc of the experience of "making" the news, from the events that bring an ordinary person to journalists' attention through their interactions with reporters and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath.
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- 2017-12-05
- 261 pages
- Ebook
- Columbia University Press
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