INTRODUCTION 1
SECTION ONE Understanding media 9
INTRODUCTION: Chris Greer 11
1 Jurgen Habermas THE PUBLIC SPHERE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE (1974) 11
2 Marshall McLuhan THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE (1964) 20
3 Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky A PROPAGANDA MODEL (1988) 32
4 Stuart Hall ENCODING--DECODING (1980) 44
5 Manuel Castells AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INFORMATION AGE (1997) 56
6 Jean Baudrillard SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS (1981) 69
7 William Gibson&NEUROMANCER (1984) 86
SECTION TWO Researching media 95
INTRODUCTION: Chris Greer 97
8 Richard Ericson, Patricia Baranek and Janet Chan RESEARCH APPROACHES (1987) 97
9 Richard Ericson, Patricia Baranek and Janet Chan READING THE NEWS (1991) 108
10 Stuart Hall THE DETERMINATIONS OF NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS (1973) 123
11 Steve Neale DIMENSIONS OF GENRE (2000) 135
12 Theodore Sasson FRAME ANALYSIS (1995) 153
13 Jenny Kitzinger THE DEBATE ABOUT MEDIA INFLUENCE (2004) 165
14 David Bell RESEARCHING CYBERCULTURES (2000) 187
SECTION THREE Crime, newsworthiness and news 201
INTRODUCTION: Chris Greer 203
15 Steve Chibnall PRESS IDEOLOGY: THE POLITICS OF PROFESSIONALISM (1977) 203
16 Yvonne Jewkes THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRIME NEWS (2004) 215
17 Jack Katz WHAT MAKES CRIME 'NEWS'? (1987) 228
18 Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF NEWS (1978) 239
19 Philip Schlesinger, Howard Tumber and Graham Murdock THE MEDIA POLITICS OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (1991) 251
20 Eugene McLaughlin RECOVERING BLACKNESS/REPUDIATING WHITENESS (2005) 264
21 Helen Benedict 'SHE SHOULD BE PUNISHED': THE 1983-1984 NEW BEDFORD 'BIG DAN'S' GANG RAPE (1992) 277
SECTION FOUR Crime, entertainment and creativity 291
INTRODUCTION: Chris Greer 293
22 Tzvetan Todorov THE TYPOLOGY OF DETECTIVE FICTION (1966) 293
23 Robert Reiner THE DIALECTICS OF DIXON: THE CHANGING IMAGE OF THE TV coP (1994) 302
24 Mariana Valverde FROM THE HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE TO THE PRE-CRIME UNIT (2006) 311
25 Robert Reiner, Sonia Livingstone and Jessica Allen CASINO CULTURE: MEDIA AND CRIME IN A WINNER--LOSER SOCIETY (2001) 324
26 Barry Langford THE GANGSTER FILM: GENRE AND SOCIETY (2005) 335
27 Brian Jarvis MONSTERS INC.: SERIAL KILLERS AND CONSUMER CULTURE (2007) 351
28 Jeff Ferrell CRIMES OF STYLE (1996) 364
SECTION FIVE Effects, influence and moral panic 379
INTRODUCTION: Chris Greer 381
29 Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross and Sheila Ross IMITATION OF FILM-MEDIATED AGGRESSIVE MODELS (1963) 381
30 David Gauntlett THE WORRYING INFLUENCE OF 'MEDIA EFFECTS' STUDIES (2001) 393
31 Martin Barker and Julian Petley FROM BAD RESEARCH TO GOOD - A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED (2001) 403
32 George Gerbner and Larry Gross LIVING WITH TELEVISION: THE VIOLENCE PROFILE (1976) 419
33 Jason Ditton, Derek Chadee, Stephen Farrall,Elisabeth Gilchrist and Jon Bannister FROM IMITATION TO INTIMIDATION: A NOTE ON THE CURIOUS AND CHANGING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MEDIA, CRIME AND FEAR OF CRIME (2004) 442
34 Stanley Cohen FOLK DEVILS AND MORAL PANICS: THE CREATION OF MODS AND ROCKERS (1972-2002) 461
35 Angela McRobbie and Sarah Thornton RETHINKING 'MORAL PANIC' FOR A MULTI-MEDIATED SOCIAL WORLD (1995) 483
SECTION SIX Cybercrime, surveillance and risk 491
INTRODUCTION: Chris Greer 493
36 Michel Foucault PANOPTICISM (1977) 493
37 Thomas Mathiesen THE VIEWER SOCIETY: MICHAEL FOUCAULT'S 'PANOPTICON' REVISITED (1997) 506
38 Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong WORKING RULES AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SUSPICION (1999) 522
39 Shelia Brown (S)TALKING IN CYBERSPACE: VIRTUALITY, CRIME AND LAW (2003) 539
40 Katja Franko Aas BEYOND 'THE DESERT OF THE REAL': CRIME CONTROL IN A VIRTUAL(ISED)REALITY (2006) 551
41 Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate COMMUNICATING THE TERRORIST RISK: HARNESSING A CULTURE OF FEAR? (2006) 565
42 Susan Sontag REGARDING THE TORTURE OF OTHERS (2004) 577
Index 587