TY - BOOK AU - Tovares,Raúl Damacio TI - Manufacturing the Gang: Mexican American Youth Gangs on Local Television News T2 - Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications Series SN - 9780313011009 AV - PN4888.H57T68 2002 U1 - 070.4/4493643471073 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Publishing USA KW - Mexican American youth -- Press coverage -- United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Manufacturing the Gang -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- NEWS AS SOCIAL PROCESS -- WHY STUDY LOCAL TV NEWS? -- MEDIA REPRESENTATION -- CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE -- CRITICAL THEORY -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN AMERICAN YOUTH GANG -- MEXICAN AMERICAN YOUTH GANGS AND THE NEWS MEDIA -- METHOD -- Chapter 2 Historical Roots of the Mexican American Youth Gang -- GRAMSCI AND THE STUDY OF HISTORY -- EARLY HISTORY -- GROWTH OF LITERACY AND RISE OF PRINT MEDIA -- ROOTS OF TENSIONS AND CONFLICTS BETWEEN MEXICANS AND ANGLOS -- THE CORTEZ "GANG" -- NEW MEDIA, OLD STORIES -- ORIGINS OF THE STUDY OF THE MODERN MEXICAN AMERICAN YOUTH GANG -- MARIJUANA LAWS -- SLEEPY LAGOON CASE -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3 Influence of Newsworkers -- WHY STUDY ROLE OF NEWSWORKERS? -- PRODUCING GANG NEWS STORIES -- DECIDING TO MAKE NEWS -- NEWSWORKERS AND NEWSWORK -- OBJECTIVITY IN NEWS -- PROFESSIONAL VALUES -- INFLUENCE OF NEWSWORKERS -- Chapter 4 Police Influence -- GETTING TO THE SOURCE -- STRUCTURING THE GANG -- GIVING TELEVISION NEWS WHAT IT WANTS -- CULTURAL INFLUENCES -- GETTING TO THE SOURCE -- GETTING THE STORY OUT AND MEETING THE DEADLINE -- ORGANIZING TO FIGHT CRIME -- CONTAINING THE FEAR OF GANGS -- DEFINING GANGS -- BRIEF HISTORY OF GANGS IN RESEARCH AREA -- RAPPING AGAINST GANGS -- ORGANIZING TO FIGHT GANGS -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 Community Leaders -- DEFINING COMMUNITY LEADERS -- IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING INFLUENCE OF COMMUNITY LEADERS -- GETTING MEDIA ATTENTION -- RESOURCES -- Chapter 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3000790 ER -