Anthropology › Section O · Anthropology of media › Topic O.5
News media, the public sphere, and nationalism
News tells people what happened today, and also what matters and who 'we' are. Anthropologists study how newsrooms work, how news builds publics and nations, and why rival outlets can describe the same country so differently.
In this topic
- News as a worldview
- Early newspapers
- The public sphere
- Critics of the public sphere
- News and the imagined nation
- State and independent media
- Worked example: two presses in Ghana
- Worked example: reading a front page
- Studying audiences
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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