The discourse of news values : how news organizations create newsworthiness /
The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in multimodal news discourse, offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive analysis of news values and the construction of newsworthiness. The book explores how the news is ""sold"" (made newsworthy) to audiences throug...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Discourse of News Values; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1. The discourse of news values; 1.2. Why study news values?; 1.3. Key terms; 1.4. Corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis; 1.5. Summary and overview of chapters; Part I Theory; 2. News values; 2.1. Journalism/communications studies; 2.2. Linguistics; 2.3. A new approach to news values; 3. Discursive news values analysis; 3.1. The discursive construction of news values; 3.2. Our list and labels; 3.3. Conceptualizing news values
- 3.4. Context-dependency, preferred meaning, and the target audience3.5. Example analysis and concluding remarks; Part II Analytical Frameworks; 4. Language and news values; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Towards an inventory of linguistic resources; 4.3. Combining news values and example analysis; 4.4. Summary; 5. Visuals and news values; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. The relationship between images and news values; 5.3. Visual resources in images; 5.4. Other semiotic resources constructing news values; 5.5. Front-page news: An example analysis; 5.6. Concluding remarks; Part III Empirical Analysis
- 6. What is newsworthy about cyclists?6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The corpus; 6.3. Analysis of 'typical' news values; 6.4. Analysis of news values around cyclists; 6.5. Summary and conclusion; 7. Images, news values, and Facebook; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Social media and news feeds; 7.3. Data and methodology; 7.4. Results; 7.5. Conclusion; 8. 'All the news that's fit to share': News values in 'most shared' news; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Data and methodology; 8.3. Verbal patterns; 8.4. Visual patterns; 8.5. Visual-verbal patterns; 8.6. Conclusion; Part IV Extensions
- 9. Discursive news values analysis as an opportunity for diachronic and cross-cultural research9.1. Salacious Fiends and News from the Dead: Diachronic research; 9.2. El terror yihadista, Terroralarm, terrordramat: Cross-cultural research; 9.3. Concluding remarks; 10. Reflections; 10.1. From little things, big things grow (Ưchapter 1); 10.2. Surveying the field: It's a jungle out there (Ưchapter 2); 10.3. Situating our own approach to news values: Which corner of the jungle do we inhabit? (Ưchapter 3); 10.4. The discourse of news values (Ưchapters 4 and 5)
- 10.5. Case study 1: 'Pedalling' a critical, topic-based approach to DNVA (Ưchapter 6)10.6. Case study 2: DNVA and the digital disrupters of social media (Ưchapter 7); 10.7. Case study 3: Combining DNVA and CAMDA (Ưchapter 8); 10.8. (Ưchapter 9); 10.9. Concluding remarks; Appendix; References; Index