Discourses of Disorder: Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media

ISBN-13: 9781474435413 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Christopher Hart; Darren Kelsey

Opis

Drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder.

Spis treści

0: Introduction; PART I: LANGUAGE; 1: Political spin in early newspapers: Comparing narratives of the Baltimore Riots in June and July 1812, Juhani Rudanko; 2: Moral storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, metaphor and ideology, Darren Kelsey; 3: Why do they protest? The discursive construction of ‘motives’ of the Chilean student movement (2011-2013) in the alternative press, Carolina Pérez-Arredondo; 4: Crying children and bleeding pensioners against Rambo’s troop: Perspectivization in German newspaper reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests, Gerrit Kotzur; 5: Taking a stance through the voice of ‘others’: Attribution in news coverage of a public sector workers’ strike in two Botswana newspapers, Boitshwarelo Rantsudu; 6: Media ‘militant’ tendencies: How strike action in the news press is discursively constructed as inherently violent, Matt Davies and Rotsukhon Nophakhun; PART II: MULTIMODALITY; 7: Metaphor and the Miners’ Strike: A multimodal analysis, Christopher Hart; 8: Strategic manoeuvring in Arab Spring political cartoons, Rania El Nakkouzi; 9: ‘Eu não mereço morrer assassinado’: On- and off-line protest by favela residents in Rio de Janeiro and mainstream media reactions to it: A multimodal approach, Andrea Mayr; 10: Rioting and disorderly behaviour as political media practice, Serjoscha Ostermeyer and David Sittler