Robert P Snow
Biographic Data
| ID | 89001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Snow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Snow |
| SIGNATURE | SNOW R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Media Politics II
The roles of the news media as intermediaries between an event and its presentation, as well as the constitutive role of these media in shaping the events themselves. Just as presidential politics increasingly reflects the logic of media work and thereby becomes but an extension of media programming, so too does the public treatment of daily governmental affairs. The thousands of pages of news reports and Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs …
A Political Kaleidoscope
This chapter provides some materials to illustrate how some political scenarios were punctuated with media logic. It suggests that an alternative theoretical perspective for understanding voting behavior. The chapter focuses on an interactive emotional and communicative perspective for understanding political communication. It suggests that the mediation of political experience by television (TV) also explicates an apparent anomaly that has been …
Media Entertainment
Entertainment follows a general set of criteria that, although largely taken for granted by everyone, can be identified by contrasting it to the mundane or routine. In contrasting entertainment with the mundane, the most obvious difference is the absence of the ordinary in entertainment. Following Georg Simmel’s ideas, entertainment would qualify as an “adventure.” In general terms this means that entertainment is outside the expected boundaries …
Media Ministry
This chapter focuses on “Media Ministry” with this statement: Religion, projected by electronic media, is presented through an entertainment perspective and an ideal-norms format which simplifies it according to an least objectionable program principle. It argues that religious activity was rapidly becoming a significant part of that segment of American culture being created and presented within and through the mass media. The chapter argues that…
The Media as Culture
This chapter examines the specific elements of media logic and demonstrate how they connect with specific institutional activity to produce a media culture. It argues that any comprehensive social theory or perspective must articulate the relevance of communication, especially the mass media. The mass media are enigmatic for social scientists. The mass media are irrevocably ideological, cultural, and, in many instances, hegemonic devices to serve…
Media Sports
Prior to the television era, print and radio carried sporting events to fans in a fairly matter-of-fact manner without altering how the game was played or viewed by the fan. Certainly these media provided a degree of hype and hoopla, glorifying the sports hero and exalting the ideal of fair play and rivalry, but they had very little impact on the economics of sports, and made no effort to create an audience. Sports can no longer be thought of as …
Postjournalism Media News
This chapter focuses on the relationship between mediaas-form and news-as-content. It deals with the statement that journalism is dead, and attempts to trace some of its undoing. The chapter argues that much of what is transmitted throughout the news channels qualifies as “propaganda,” and in particular, “bureaucratic propaganda”. It outlines most Television (TV) news agencies—and certain other news media as well—are making mistakes that are unre…
Conclusion
This chapter argues that American society is ordered largely through the sense-making strategies developed in mass media, particularly television. It argues that so powerful is the media logic that it has effectively terminated journalism as an effective representation of independent events and meanings. The chapter explores mass media have risen to a dominant position in the institutional network of society primarily because various institutions…
Media Politics I
This chapter suggests that political behaviour is intertwined with media formats to such an extent that politics is media politics . The media and politics sustained each other, but as the role of mass media became more powerful than mere politicians, the latter adapted to the former, and they both changed. Political media, as much as any single source, contributed to the death of organized journalism. In the context of politics, media logic and …
Media Worlds in the Postjournalism ERA
The concept of media logic, a theoretical framework for explaining the relationship between mass media and culture, was first introduced in Altheide and Snow's influential work, Media Logic. In Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era, the authors expand their analysis of how organizational considerations promote a distinctive media logic, which in turn is conductive to a media culture. They trace the ethnography of that media culture, including th…
Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy. Benjamin I. Page
Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era
Media Events
Boredom
This article examines the experience and meaning of boredom in modern society. Boredom is understood as an experience of a lack of momentum or flow in a person's life. Boredom is conceptualized as an interactional phenomenon that is inextricably connected to social rhythm. The communication of boredom is examined with respect to its consequences in self and motive presentation. The article also describes those features of contemporary American li…
The Best Is Yet To Come
Media logic and culture
Wheeling and Dealing
Youth, Rock 'N' Roll, and Electronic Media
Processing the News
This work assesses the political consequences of news presented to the public and how the public processes the news. Based on monitoring of 16 adults and the news content that reached them, it focuses on the thinking processes that come into play when people cope with political information
Pauses
Despite the ubiquity of pauses in the personal and social fabric of everyday life, sociological analysis of this phenomenon has been limited in both scope and concern. In this article it is argued that pausing should not be relegated to the status of a residual category nor should pauses merely be conceptualized as breaks in action or periods of inactivity. Rather, it is suggested that pauses are an essential element of the social rhythm that dem…
The Soap Opera
Teaching Sociology through Existing Television Programs
Fast Forward, distributed by TV Ontario and broadcast over the PBS affiliate, KAET-TV (VHF) in Phoenix, Arizona, consists of 13 half-hour programs on the latest developments achieved through computer hardware. Designed as a dynamic but simple explanation, each program is oriented to a specific subject, such as medicine, robotics, business information, the arts, and so forth. Computer graphics and other special effects make the programs visually e…
General Mass Communication
THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY 200: 1983 EDITION—AMERICA'S TWO HUNDRED LARGEST MEDIA AND INFORMATION COMPANIES (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983---price not given, paper; with hardback edition available from Gale Research Co., Detroit---$98.00) MASS COMMUNICATION THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION by Denis McQuail (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1983---$25.00/$12.50) CREATING MEDIA CULTURE by Robert P. Snow (Beverly Hills, Calif.…
Learning and Self-Counseling through Television Entertainment
"Comments on Leo Bogart's, "Warning
Media Worlds in the Postjournalism ERA
The concept of media logic, a theoretical framework for explaining the relationship between mass media and culture, was first introduced in Altheide and Snow's influential work, Media Logic. In Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era, the authors expand their analysis of how organizational considerations promote a distinctive media logic, which in turn is conductive to a media culture. They trace the ethnography of that media culture, including th…
Pauses
Despite the ubiquity of pauses in the personal and social fabric of everyday life, sociological analysis of this phenomenon has been limited in both scope and concern. In this article it is argued that pausing should not be relegated to the status of a residual category nor should pauses merely be conceptualized as breaks in action or periods of inactivity. Rather, it is suggested that pauses are an essential element of the social rhythm that dem…
Boredom
This article examines the experience and meaning of boredom in modern society. Boredom is understood as an experience of a lack of momentum or flow in a person's life. Boredom is conceptualized as an interactional phenomenon that is inextricably connected to social rhythm. The communication of boredom is examined with respect to its consequences in self and motive presentation. The article also describes those features of contemporary American li…
Media logic and culture
General Mass Communication
THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY 200: 1983 EDITION—AMERICA'S TWO HUNDRED LARGEST MEDIA AND INFORMATION COMPANIES (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983---price not given, paper; with hardback edition available from Gale Research Co., Detroit---$98.00) MASS COMMUNICATION THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION by Denis McQuail (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1983---$25.00/$12.50) CREATING MEDIA CULTURE by Robert P. Snow (Beverly Hills, Calif.…
Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era
Youth, Rock 'N' Roll, and Electronic Media
Vicarious Behavior
Vicarious Behavior
"Comments on Leo Bogart's, "Warning
Learning and Self-Counseling through Television Entertainment
Teaching Sociology through Existing Television Programs
Fast Forward, distributed by TV Ontario and broadcast over the PBS affiliate, KAET-TV (VHF) in Phoenix, Arizona, consists of 13 half-hour programs on the latest developments achieved through computer hardware. Designed as a dynamic but simple explanation, each program is oriented to a specific subject, such as medicine, robotics, business information, the arts, and so forth. Computer graphics and other special effects make the programs visually e…
General Mass Communication
THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY 200: 1983 EDITION—AMERICA'S TWO HUNDRED LARGEST MEDIA AND INFORMATION COMPANIES (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983---price not given, paper; with hardback edition available from Gale Research Co., Detroit---$98.00) MASS COMMUNICATION THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION by Denis McQuail (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1983---$25.00/$12.50) CREATING MEDIA CULTURE by Robert P. Snow (Beverly Hills, Calif.…
The Soap Opera
Processing the News
This work assesses the political consequences of news presented to the public and how the public processes the news. Based on monitoring of 16 adults and the news content that reached them, it focuses on the thinking processes that come into play when people cope with political information
Pauses
Despite the ubiquity of pauses in the personal and social fabric of everyday life, sociological analysis of this phenomenon has been limited in both scope and concern. In this article it is argued that pausing should not be relegated to the status of a residual category nor should pauses merely be conceptualized as breaks in action or periods of inactivity. Rather, it is suggested that pauses are an essential element of the social rhythm that dem…
Wheeling and Dealing
Youth, Rock 'N' Roll, and Electronic Media
Media logic and culture
Boredom
This article examines the experience and meaning of boredom in modern society. Boredom is understood as an experience of a lack of momentum or flow in a person's life. Boredom is conceptualized as an interactional phenomenon that is inextricably connected to social rhythm. The communication of boredom is examined with respect to its consequences in self and motive presentation. The article also describes those features of contemporary American li…
The Best Is Yet To Come
Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era
Media Events
Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy. Benjamin I. Page
Media Politics II
The roles of the news media as intermediaries between an event and its presentation, as well as the constitutive role of these media in shaping the events themselves. Just as presidential politics increasingly reflects the logic of media work and thereby becomes but an extension of media programming, so too does the public treatment of daily governmental affairs. The thousands of pages of news reports and Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs …
A Political Kaleidoscope
This chapter provides some materials to illustrate how some political scenarios were punctuated with media logic. It suggests that an alternative theoretical perspective for understanding voting behavior. The chapter focuses on an interactive emotional and communicative perspective for understanding political communication. It suggests that the mediation of political experience by television (TV) also explicates an apparent anomaly that has been …
Media Entertainment
Entertainment follows a general set of criteria that, although largely taken for granted by everyone, can be identified by contrasting it to the mundane or routine. In contrasting entertainment with the mundane, the most obvious difference is the absence of the ordinary in entertainment. Following Georg Simmel’s ideas, entertainment would qualify as an “adventure.” In general terms this means that entertainment is outside the expected boundaries …
Media Ministry
This chapter focuses on “Media Ministry” with this statement: Religion, projected by electronic media, is presented through an entertainment perspective and an ideal-norms format which simplifies it according to an least objectionable program principle. It argues that religious activity was rapidly becoming a significant part of that segment of American culture being created and presented within and through the mass media. The chapter argues that…
The Media as Culture
This chapter examines the specific elements of media logic and demonstrate how they connect with specific institutional activity to produce a media culture. It argues that any comprehensive social theory or perspective must articulate the relevance of communication, especially the mass media. The mass media are enigmatic for social scientists. The mass media are irrevocably ideological, cultural, and, in many instances, hegemonic devices to serve…
Media Sports
Prior to the television era, print and radio carried sporting events to fans in a fairly matter-of-fact manner without altering how the game was played or viewed by the fan. Certainly these media provided a degree of hype and hoopla, glorifying the sports hero and exalting the ideal of fair play and rivalry, but they had very little impact on the economics of sports, and made no effort to create an audience. Sports can no longer be thought of as …
Postjournalism Media News
This chapter focuses on the relationship between mediaas-form and news-as-content. It deals with the statement that journalism is dead, and attempts to trace some of its undoing. The chapter argues that much of what is transmitted throughout the news channels qualifies as “propaganda,” and in particular, “bureaucratic propaganda”. It outlines most Television (TV) news agencies—and certain other news media as well—are making mistakes that are unre…
Conclusion
This chapter argues that American society is ordered largely through the sense-making strategies developed in mass media, particularly television. It argues that so powerful is the media logic that it has effectively terminated journalism as an effective representation of independent events and meanings. The chapter explores mass media have risen to a dominant position in the institutional network of society primarily because various institutions…
Media Politics I
This chapter suggests that political behaviour is intertwined with media formats to such an extent that politics is media politics . The media and politics sustained each other, but as the role of mass media became more powerful than mere politicians, the latter adapted to the former, and they both changed. Political media, as much as any single source, contributed to the death of organized journalism. In the context of politics, media logic and …
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