The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness - Softcover

Bednarek, Monika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190653949 ISBN 13: 9780190653941

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 through the semiotic resources of language and image, providing a new analytical framework which can be used by other researchers in their own subsequent studies. It combines in-depth theoretical discussion with analyses of authentic news discourse (both language and images) from around the English-speaking world, including three empirical case studies: one that analyzes news values around the topic of cycling across different English-speaking cultures; one that analyzes images disseminated by news media organizations via Facebook; and a third that focuses on the 100 "most shared" news items.

About this title

About the Author

Monika Bednarek is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Helen Caple is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190653949
• ISBN 13: 9780190653941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320