NEWS FRAMES AND NATIONAL SECURITY by Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah ( 9780521130554 )

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Title:

NEWS FRAMES AND NATIONAL SECURITY
COVERING BIG BROTHER

By:

Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah

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0521130557

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9780521130554

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 December, 2014

Series:

Communication, Society and Politics

Pages:

232

Description:

This book explores the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance.

Synopsis:

Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of news coverage to render targeted groups suspicious and to spur support for government surveillance. They argue that the tendency of journalists to frame stories around individual targets of surveillance - personifying the domestic threat - shapes citizens' judgments about tolerance and participation, leading them to limit the civil liberties of a range of groups under scrutiny and to support 'Big Brother'.

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28 b/w illus. 6 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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