Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

creating reality  

Definition

  • David L. Altheide's book Creating Reality is one of several studies from the 1970s that addressed the question of how the mass media construct a reality. Many of these books used methods comparable to field studies in cultural anthropology, in the sense that researchers observed a culture unfamiliar to them—in this case the culture of news production. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Creating Reality]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/creating_reality

Download this concept: