ISBN:
9781442671003
,
1442671009
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 198 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Doyle, Aaron Arresting images
DDC:
306.28
Keywords:
Mass media Social aspects
;
Crime on television Social aspects
;
Reality television programs Social aspects
;
Médias Aspect social
;
Criminalité à la télévision Aspect social
;
Télévision-vérité Aspect social
;
Médias et criminalité
;
Médias et justice pénale
;
Mass media and crime
;
Mass media and criminal justice
;
Reality television programs Social aspects
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Crime on television Social aspects
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Reality television programs ; Social aspects
;
Mass media and crime
;
Mass media and criminal justice
;
Mass media ; Social aspects
;
Reality-TV
;
Criminaliteit
;
Politie
;
Sociale aspecten
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Three alternative ways of thinking about television's influences -- Reality television and policing : the case of Cops -- Surveillance cameras, amateur video, and "real" crime on television -- Television and the policing of Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot -- The media logic of Greenpeace -- Conclusions -- Postscript : television and theorizing the evolution of criminal justice.
Abstract:
While most research on television examines its impact on viewers, Arresting Images asks instead how TV influences what is in front of the camera, and how it reshapes other institutions as it broadcasts their activities. Aaron Doyle develops his argument with four studies of televised crime and policing: the popular American 'reality-TV' series Cops; the televising of surveillance footage and home video of crime and policing; footage of Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot; and the publicity-grabbing demonstrations of the environmental group Greenpeace. Each of these studies is of significant interest in its own right, but Doyle also uses them to make a broader argument rethinking television's impacts. The four studies show how televised activities tend to become more institutionally important, tightly managed, dramatic, simplified and fitted to society's dominant values. Powerful institutions, like the police, harness television for their own legitimation and surveillance purposes, often dictating which situations are televised, and usually producing 'authorized definitions' of the situations, which allow them to control the consequences. While these institutions invoke the notion that "seeing is believing" to reinforce their positions of dominance, the book argues that many observers and researchers have long overstated and misunderstood the role of TV's visual component in shaping its influences
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671003
URL:
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