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Media discourses : analysing media texts / Donald Matheson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Issues in cultural and media studiesPublication details: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 206p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 033521469X (pbk.)
  • 0335214703 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 22
Contents:
Introduction: The big ideas about language, society and the media News and the social life of words Advertising Discourse: Selling between the lines The performance of identity in consumer magazines The stories they tell us: Studying television as narrative,br>Making sense of images: the visual meanings of reality television The power to talk: conversation analysis of broadcast interviews Racism as social cognition in sports commentary Connecting with New Media: Weblogs and other interactive media Glossary of key terms
Summary: Introducing readers to insights from discourse analysis into how media communication works, this book discusses what is being shared in media texts: what gets represented, who gets to do the talking, what people need to share in order to understand the media and how power relations are reinforced or challenged.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The big ideas about language, society and the media News and the social life of words Advertising Discourse: Selling between the lines The performance of identity in consumer magazines The stories they tell us: Studying television as narrative,br>Making sense of images: the visual meanings of reality television The power to talk: conversation analysis of broadcast interviews Racism as social cognition in sports commentary Connecting with New Media: Weblogs and other interactive media Glossary of key terms

Introducing readers to insights from discourse analysis into how media communication works, this book discusses what is being shared in media texts: what gets represented, who gets to do the talking, what people need to share in order to understand the media and how power relations are reinforced or challenged.

Donald Matheson lectures in mass communication at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He worked previously at Cardiff and Strathclyde Universities in the UK, where he taught both critical and practical courses on journalism. Before that he was a news reporter in New Zealand. His research focuses on journalists' writing practices and new media writing such as weblogs.

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