Watching and Listening

Chapman, Jane L. (author) / Nuttall, Nick (author)

Journalism Today ; 272-296

2011-04-05

25 pages

9781405179539 , 9781444395372

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395372.ch13

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

radio, holding, potential for community participation ‐ listener call‐ins and Gray becoming known as the “hot mama of Talk Radio” , getting the audience's measure ‐ examination of news media, concluding that audience has moved center stage , FactFile, Leo Lowenthal and Celebrity “Idols” ‐ Americans heaping adulation on “idols of production” , Watching and Listening ‐ private world metamorphosing into an all‐pervasive “celebrity culture” reported obsessively in media today , participatory culture and “We Media” ‐ newspapers, influence on the modes, public participation in cultural communication , serious readers and cultural critics alike ‐ disliking this “new” journalism , new themes, producing the personal ‐ as the litmus test of popular culture , America, press news values ‐ imprinted on new technologies of radio and television , Judith Graham, a human development specialist, Studies showing that too much television viewing [by children] ‐ leading to adverse affects , cable television systems and satellite ‐ multichannel, narrowcasting capability to broadcast television