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Studying Palestinian-Israeli Relations at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Deborah L. Wheeler
Deborah L. Wheeler*
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The University of Washington
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For the Past Five Decades, media texts, broadcast over television air waves, have created a shared identity among viewing audiences. John B. Thompson notes that if culture is understood as “the ways in which meaningful expressions of various kinds are produced, constructed and received by individuals”, then mass media can be understood as central to the creation and maintenance of culture (pp. 122-23). The words and images that construct a media culture are the very building blocks of collective identity. As Michael Schudson observes, “news is part of the background through which and with which people think” (p. 16).

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , Summer 2000 , pp. 38 - 40
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2000

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