Ethnic Minorities & the Media / Edition 1

by Simon Cottle, Cottle Simon

Overview

There are few media issues more pressing, or potentially more consequential than the representation of ethnic minorities. This authoritative text therefore brings together leading international researchers who have examined some of the processes of change (and continuity) informing the field of ethnic minorities and the media. Numerous studies of race, racism and the mass media have been conducted in the past. However, both the media landscape and the cultural field of ethnic minorities are fast changing, and this book addresses the recent developments which have threatened to outpace our ability to map, understand and intervene in processes of change. Presented in an accessible style, this book provides the reader with an overview of the latest research findings and informed discussion. It opens with an introductory essay which maps recent approaches to the field, followed by substantive chapters which are structured thematically to address key processes of change such as media representations, media production, and cultures of identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335202706
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Series:	Issues in Cultural and Media Studies (Paperback)
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Simon Cottle is Professor of Media Communication at Bath Spa University College. His previous books include TV News, Urban Conflict and the Inner City (Leicester University Press, 1993), Television and Ethnic Minorities: Producers Perspectives (Avebury, 1997) and, with A. Hansen, R. Negrine and C. Newbold, Mass Communication Research Methods (Macmillan, 1998). His research interests include the sociology of journalism and television production, and the representation of conflicts including urban disorder, the environment, war and racism.

Table of Contents

Series editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors

Introduction

Ethnic minorities and media research
mapping the field

Part one: Changing representations

New(s) racism
a discourse analytical approach
White watch
Dreaming of a white...

Part two: Changing contexts of production

The paradox of African American journalists
A rock and a hard place
making ethnic minority television
Black representation in the post network, post civil rights world of global media

Part three: Changing cultures of identity

In whose image? TV criticism and black minority viewers
Ethnicity, national culture(s) and the interpretation of television
Transnational communications and diaspora communities
Media and diasporic consciousness
an exploration amoung Iranians in London

Afterword: On the right to communicate

Media and the 'public sphere' in multi-ethnic societies
Glossary
References
Index.

Editorial Reviews

Twelve articles by international researchers focus on three central topics: the changing representations of minorities in media, the changing role of minorities in the production of media (with increasing numbers of minorities making decisions affecting programming) and the changing cultures of identity. The book closes with an afterward on the right to communicate. Written for undergraduates, postgraduates, or professionals studying media, mass communications, cultural studies or the sociology of race and ethnicity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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