| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 462 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 18, 2013). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal -- The TV news magazine genre in the corporate media world -- Examining television at the juncture of rhetoric and cultural studies -- Cultivation analysis and the shaping of the frame -- Media literacy as cultural intervention -- Methodology -- Rhetorical analysis of "Hollywood's unlikely hero" and "framing an execution" -- Findings from experimental design -- Findings from focus groups -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
This work presents a case study of journalism as persuasion through a triangulated examination of ABC 20/20's story ""Hollywood's Unlikely Hero"" (December 1998), which reports on the death penalty case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The methodology includes rhetorical analysis, experimental design, and focus group audience research. It also examines the impact of a media literacy intervention on news reception by showing the video ""Framing an Execution: the Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal"" and measuring its effects on audience perceptions of the 20/20 story. Each book includes a DVD copy of the ""Framing an. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Abu-Jamal, Mumia.
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Abu-Jamal, Mumia. |
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Mass media -- Objectivity -- United States.
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Mass media -- Objectivity. |
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United States. |
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- United States.
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Truthfulness and falsehood. |
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Magazine format television programs -- United States.
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Magazine format television programs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gardner, Thomas N. Media Rhetoric of Law and Order : How ABC Framed the Mumia Abu-Jamal Story. Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009 9780773446830 |
| ISBN |
9780773446830 (electronic book) |
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0773446834 (electronic book) |
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9780773444249 |
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0773444246 |
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