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100 1 _aMatheson, Donald.
245 1 0 _aMedia discourses :
_banalysing media texts /
_cDonald Matheson.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aMaidenhead :
_bOpen University Press,
_c2005.
300 _ax, 206p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aIssues in cultural and media studies
500 _aFormerly CIP.
_5UK
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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
520 _aIntroducing 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.
545 0 _aDonald 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.
650 0 _aMass media.
650 0 _aDiscourse analysis.
830 0 _aIssues in cultural and media studies
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