Audience feedback in the news media /
Reader, Bill, 1970-
Audience feedback in the news media / Bill Reader. - New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. - viii, 187 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in journalism ; 11 .
Copy no. (201920) Purchase 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience comments, the spice of history -- "Packets of letters": audience comments before freedom of the press -- "A sure sign of liberty, and a cause of it": audience feedback and the emergence of the free press -- Commodification of comments: professional bias and gatekeeping of letters to the editor -- Professional journalism's transformation of "a quaint tradition" -- Concerning "crackpots": the media's love-hate relationship with feedback -- "In my opinion ...": commenting as individual agency -- "We, the people ...": commenting as collective action -- Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an age without fences.
9781138775336 (hbk)
2014036835
Journalism--Public opinion.
Mass media--Public opinion.
Press--Public opinion.
P96.P83 / R425 2015
302.23
Audience feedback in the news media / Bill Reader. - New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. - viii, 187 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in journalism ; 11 .
Copy no. (201920) Purchase 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience comments, the spice of history -- "Packets of letters": audience comments before freedom of the press -- "A sure sign of liberty, and a cause of it": audience feedback and the emergence of the free press -- Commodification of comments: professional bias and gatekeeping of letters to the editor -- Professional journalism's transformation of "a quaint tradition" -- Concerning "crackpots": the media's love-hate relationship with feedback -- "In my opinion ...": commenting as individual agency -- "We, the people ...": commenting as collective action -- Conclusion: Gatekeeping in an age without fences.
9781138775336 (hbk)
2014036835
Journalism--Public opinion.
Mass media--Public opinion.
Press--Public opinion.
P96.P83 / R425 2015
302.23