Author: Maria Cristina Nisco
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443887528
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This book examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, by analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved in the protests and their agency. Starting from the assumption that newspapers do not just mirror reality, but rather construct it in discourse through a series of linguistic, stylistic and editorial choices, great attention is paid to how the events were portrayed according to different political, social and cultural stances. Since the linguistic labels employed by the newspapers to identify (and connote) the protagonists of the riots are indicative of their ideological positions, such critical attention to the specialised language of the press proves to be extremely noteworthy. Indeed, the urban unrest that periodically occurs, in the UK as much as within the wider European context, signals governments’ failure to deal with persisting social and economic problems. In this regard, investigating the extent to which the media manage or fail to account for the issues that are at the heart of such violent protests, while shaping public opinions, represents an interesting and rewarding endeavour.A corpus of about 1,700 articles, collected from the six British newspapers with the highest circulation rates in August 2011 (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times), is therefore analysed with a corpus-based discourse analysis approach, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques. The linguistic depictions of the main social actors – Mark Duggan, the rioters, and the police – reveal the ideological burden affecting power relations between (élite or minority) groups within society.
Agency in the British Press
Author: Maria Cristina Nisco
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443887528
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This book examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, by analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved in the protests and their agency. Starting from the assumption that newspapers do not just mirror reality, but rather construct it in discourse through a series of linguistic, stylistic and editorial choices, great attention is paid to how the events were portrayed according to different political, social and cultural stances. Since the linguistic labels employed by the newspapers to identify (and connote) the protagonists of the riots are indicative of their ideological positions, such critical attention to the specialised language of the press proves to be extremely noteworthy. Indeed, the urban unrest that periodically occurs, in the UK as much as within the wider European context, signals governments’ failure to deal with persisting social and economic problems. In this regard, investigating the extent to which the media manage or fail to account for the issues that are at the heart of such violent protests, while shaping public opinions, represents an interesting and rewarding endeavour.A corpus of about 1,700 articles, collected from the six British newspapers with the highest circulation rates in August 2011 (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times), is therefore analysed with a corpus-based discourse analysis approach, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques. The linguistic depictions of the main social actors – Mark Duggan, the rioters, and the police – reveal the ideological burden affecting power relations between (élite or minority) groups within society.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443887528
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This book examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, by analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved in the protests and their agency. Starting from the assumption that newspapers do not just mirror reality, but rather construct it in discourse through a series of linguistic, stylistic and editorial choices, great attention is paid to how the events were portrayed according to different political, social and cultural stances. Since the linguistic labels employed by the newspapers to identify (and connote) the protagonists of the riots are indicative of their ideological positions, such critical attention to the specialised language of the press proves to be extremely noteworthy. Indeed, the urban unrest that periodically occurs, in the UK as much as within the wider European context, signals governments’ failure to deal with persisting social and economic problems. In this regard, investigating the extent to which the media manage or fail to account for the issues that are at the heart of such violent protests, while shaping public opinions, represents an interesting and rewarding endeavour.A corpus of about 1,700 articles, collected from the six British newspapers with the highest circulation rates in August 2011 (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times), is therefore analysed with a corpus-based discourse analysis approach, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques. The linguistic depictions of the main social actors – Mark Duggan, the rioters, and the police – reveal the ideological burden affecting power relations between (élite or minority) groups within society.
The British Press, a Manifesto
Author: James Curran
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
International News Agencies
Author: Michael B. Palmer
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030311783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
International news-agencies, such as Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, have long been ‘unsung heroes’ of the media sphere. From the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, the US, France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, a small number of agencies have fed their respective countries with international news reports. They informed governments, businesses, media and, indirectly, the general public. They helped define ‘news’. Drawing on years of archival research and first-hand experience of major news agencies, this book provides a comprehensive history of the leading news agencies based in the UK, France and the USA, from the early 1800s to the present day. It retraces their relations with one another, with competitors and clients, and the types of news, information and data they collected, edited and transmitted, via a variety of means, from carrier-pigeons to artificial intelligence. It examines the sometimes colourful biographies of agency newsmen, and the rise and fall of news agencies as markets and methods shifted, concluding by looking to the future of the organisations.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030311783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
International news-agencies, such as Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, have long been ‘unsung heroes’ of the media sphere. From the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, the US, France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, a small number of agencies have fed their respective countries with international news reports. They informed governments, businesses, media and, indirectly, the general public. They helped define ‘news’. Drawing on years of archival research and first-hand experience of major news agencies, this book provides a comprehensive history of the leading news agencies based in the UK, France and the USA, from the early 1800s to the present day. It retraces their relations with one another, with competitors and clients, and the types of news, information and data they collected, edited and transmitted, via a variety of means, from carrier-pigeons to artificial intelligence. It examines the sometimes colourful biographies of agency newsmen, and the rise and fall of news agencies as markets and methods shifted, concluding by looking to the future of the organisations.
The International News Agencies
Author: Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The British Press
Author: Temple, Mick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335222978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Mick Temple offers an introduction to the history, theory, politics and potential future of British newspapers.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335222978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Mick Temple offers an introduction to the history, theory, politics and potential future of British newspapers.
The British Press
Author: Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"This exciting book offers a practical introduction to the history, theory, politics and potential future of British newspapers. Focussing on the relationship between the press and political history, it examines their social and political impact, assessing the press's contribution to enlarging and informing the public sphere." "The author provides a theoretical critique of press developments.The first part of the text leads you through key historical moments from the English Civil War to Wapping and beyond, while the second half takes an in-depth look at current empirical and theoretical concerns. Scholarly yet accessible, Mick Temple is not afraid to take a position on today's contentious issues." "The book takes a more positive perspective on the British press than has often been the case, highlighting the online strength of great brand names like the Telegraph, Guardian, Sun and Mail. Temple argues that throughout their history, our newspapers have been vital conduits for public opinion and, on occasion, catalysts for social change." "The British Press is key reading for journalism, media and social science students."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"This exciting book offers a practical introduction to the history, theory, politics and potential future of British newspapers. Focussing on the relationship between the press and political history, it examines their social and political impact, assessing the press's contribution to enlarging and informing the public sphere." "The author provides a theoretical critique of press developments.The first part of the text leads you through key historical moments from the English Civil War to Wapping and beyond, while the second half takes an in-depth look at current empirical and theoretical concerns. Scholarly yet accessible, Mick Temple is not afraid to take a position on today's contentious issues." "The book takes a more positive perspective on the British press than has often been the case, highlighting the online strength of great brand names like the Telegraph, Guardian, Sun and Mail. Temple argues that throughout their history, our newspapers have been vital conduits for public opinion and, on occasion, catalysts for social change." "The British Press is key reading for journalism, media and social science students."--BOOK JACKET.
Fleeting Agencies
Author: Arunima Datta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837387
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837387
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
The National Review
Author: Leopold James Maxse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The National and English Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Somewhere in Asia
Author: Prue Torney-Parlicki
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868405308
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From 1941 to 1975, as a series of military conflicts gripped Asia and the Pacific, Australian journalism was dominated by war reporting from the region. Torney-Parlicki (history, U. of Melbourne) argues that the reporting went beyond the usual discussion of military strategy and, in an important way.
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868405308
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
From 1941 to 1975, as a series of military conflicts gripped Asia and the Pacific, Australian journalism was dominated by war reporting from the region. Torney-Parlicki (history, U. of Melbourne) argues that the reporting went beyond the usual discussion of military strategy and, in an important way.