Jessica M Fishman
Biographic Data
| ID | 8922687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica M Fishman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fishman |
| SIGNATURE | FISHMAN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Death Makes the News
Because it is impossible to create an unfiltered mirror to reality, the news media selectively rely on particular pictures and words to shape our understanding of world events. The construction of news is never a random process, and photojournalism is far more than a mechanical undertaking. Because photographs literally craft boundaries, systematically hiding one reality while illuminating another, this book extensively examines how pictures repr…
Portrayals of Violence and Group Difference in Newspaper Photographs
The authors analyzed group membership of violent agents and types of violence in front-page photographs from 21 years of The New York Times. Using a trimodal definition of media violence, they confirmed the hypothesis that non-U.S. agents are represented as more explicitly violent than U.S. agents, and that the latter are associated with disguised modes of violence more often than the former. The recurring image of non-U.S. violence is that of or…
The populace and the police
While prior research, popular conceptions, and industry literature treat reality‐based crime television as a homogenous genre of programming, this research highlights considerable intra‐genre diversity. Quantitative and qualitative findings indicate that programs contain considerable ideological diversity, as expressed by contrasting means of pursuing and apprehending malfeasants. A case study shows that Cops establishes and justifies police as t…
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The populace and the police
While prior research, popular conceptions, and industry literature treat reality‐based crime television as a homogenous genre of programming, this research highlights considerable intra‐genre diversity. Quantitative and qualitative findings indicate that programs contain considerable ideological diversity, as expressed by contrasting means of pursuing and apprehending malfeasants. A case study shows that Cops establishes and justifies police as t…
Portrayals of Violence and Group Difference in Newspaper Photographs
The authors analyzed group membership of violent agents and types of violence in front-page photographs from 21 years of The New York Times. Using a trimodal definition of media violence, they confirmed the hypothesis that non-U.S. agents are represented as more explicitly violent than U.S. agents, and that the latter are associated with disguised modes of violence more often than the former. The recurring image of non-U.S. violence is that of or…
Death Makes the News
Because it is impossible to create an unfiltered mirror to reality, the news media selectively rely on particular pictures and words to shape our understanding of world events. The construction of news is never a random process, and photojournalism is far more than a mechanical undertaking. Because photographs literally craft boundaries, systematically hiding one reality while illuminating another, this book extensively examines how pictures repr…
Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Authoritarianism (1 work)