Book
Assessing Evidence in a Postmodern World
Books by Marquette University Faculty
Description
In contemporary society, the nature of reality is continually challenged and each day there are new examples illustrating that perception has become reality. This book collection considers how researchers might evaluate evidence when truth claims can no longer be made. The authors address issues of perception, evidence, reality and postmodernism from a variety of different backgrounds including history, ethics, cultural studies, law and social science.
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Publisher
Marquette University Press
Disciplines
Citation Information
Bonnie Brennen. Assessing Evidence in a Postmodern World. Milwaukee, WI(2013) ISSN: 9780874620368 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bonnie_brennen/37/
Table of Contents
Introduction / Bonnie Brennen Chapter
1: History, Journalism, and the Problem of Truth / John Nerone
Chapter 2: Why Journalism Has Always Pushed Perception Alongside Reality / Barbie Zelizer
Chapter 3: The Indecisive Moment: Snapshot Aesthetics as Journalistic Truth / Andrew L. Mendelson
Chapter 4: “It’s Just a Joke”Humor and Social Identity in Forwarded E-mail Images of Obama / Margaret Duffy, Janis Page and Rachel Young
Chapter 5: Mis/reading Obama: Evidence, the Internet and the Battle Over Citizenship / Tom Nakayama
Chapter 6: Less Falseness as Antidote to the Anxieties of Postmodernism / Linda Steiner
Chapter 7: Networked News Work / Jane Singer
Chapter 8: Does the Modern Trial Lack Credibility in a Postmodern World? / Daniel Blinka
Chapter 9: Promises and Challenges of Teaching Statistical Reasoning to Journalism Undergraduates: Twin Surveys of Department Heads, 1997 and 2008 / Robert J. Griffin and Sharon Dunwoody
Chapter 10: Media Insurgents in the Network Society: Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Mass Self-communication / Frank Durham
Chapter 11: Roundtable: Assessing Evidence in a Postmodern World
About the Contributors
Index