Communications, Journalism, and New Media: Journalism as History and the Future--COMM 4700

This book is an ethnographical analysis of the media coverage of the 1989 “Montreal Massacre,” in which twenty-six people were shot and killed or wounded. Mass media reported the story over a two-week period following the incident. The authors argue that the story of the murders became an expression of the methods used to describe and evaluate them, and central to these methods was membership category analysis — the practice of perceiving people, places, and events as “members” of “categories,” and to use these to explain actions [from database description].

An old book, but useful for researching older material.