Book contents
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Communication as Information
- Zeynep
- Solmaz
- Orhan
- Solmaz
- Noah
- Michael and Noah (Day 1)
- Michael and Noah (Day 2)
- Michael and Noah (Day 3)
- The Chains of Narrative
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Communication as Information
from Part IV - Translations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2022
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Communication as Information
- Zeynep
- Solmaz
- Orhan
- Solmaz
- Noah
- Michael and Noah (Day 1)
- Michael and Noah (Day 2)
- Michael and Noah (Day 3)
- The Chains of Narrative
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Any act of communication is both a social interaction and a means of transmitting information (Wadensjö 1998). Thus far, I have focused on communication as interaction: a means to signal identity, claim status, win or defuse conflicts. Yet communication among reporters, fixers, and sources also transmits the information that becomes news. We will now turn to the informatics of fixing with a close look at what is lost, gained, and transformed in translation from events in the world to stories in the media.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 183 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022