The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness

ISBN-13: 9780190653934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 322 str.

Monika Bednarek; Helen Caple

Opis

The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in news media research in offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive construction of news values through words and images. Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple combine in-depth theoretical discussion with detailed empirical analysis to introduce their innovative analytical framework: discursive news values analysis (DNVA). DNVA allows researchers to systematically investigate how reported events are "sold" to audiences as "news" (made newsworthy) through the semiotic resources of language and image.

With an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological approach, The Discourse of News Values analyzes authentic news discourse (both language and images) from around the English-speaking world through three new case studies: one that analyzes newsworthiness around the topic of cycling/cyclists; another that analyzes news values in images disseminated by news media organizations via Facebook; and a third that focuses on news values in "most shared" news items.

Introducing readers to the possibilities of both DNVA and corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA), The Discourse of News Values brings together corpus linguistics and multimodal discourse analysis in a stimulating and unique book for researchers in Linguistics, Semiotics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Media/Journalism Studies.

O autorze

Monika Bednarek is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. In recent years, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford (2013) and a FRIAS Senior Fellow/Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany (2015-2016). She has published widely in media linguistics and corpus linguistics. Helen Caple is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and an ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests centre on news photography, text-image relations and the construction of news values in images. She is currently exploring the role of citizen photography in contemporary journalism, and has published widely in the area of photojournalism and social semiotics.