Br(e)aking the News; Journalism, Politics and New Media (Paperback)

Contents: Julian Petley: Leveson and Operation Motorman: lessons from a debacle over data protection ? Kate Ironside: Closing Time at the Last Chance Saloon? Phone hacking and the future of press regulation ? Ivor Gaber: The many faces of Rupert Murdoch: as revealed by his evidence to the UK’s Leveson Inquiry into the Cultures. Ethics and Practices of the Press ? Paul Rowinski: Berlusconi, Murdoch and the power of persuasion over Europe ? Jon Silverman: Cats, convicts and clerics: how the media and politicians have framed the Human Rights Act ? Ali Usman Saleem/Sayeeda Syed: Terrorism Radio, Coercion and Illiteracy ? Janey Gordon/Umar Lawal Maradun: Radio Audiences and Mobile Phones: the case in northern Nigeria ? Tim Markham: The Uses of Seriousness: Arab Journalists Tweet the 2011-12 Uprisings ? Lee Hall/Neil Farrington/John Price: Twitter, Disintermediation and the Changing Role of the Sports Journalist ? Axel Bruns/Tim Highfield/Stephen Harrington: Sharing the News: Dissemination of Links to Australian News Sites on Twitter ? Sonya Yan Song/Fei Shen/Mike Z. Yao/Steven S. Wildman: Un/masking News in Cyberspace: Examining Censorship Patterns of News Portal Sites in China ? David R. Brake: Journalists, User Generated Content and Digital Divides ? Susan Jacobson: Br(e)aking the News: The End of American Journalism Education ? Gavin Stewart: Wikipedia and War.