Journalism category: 1922 books
The Discourse of Broadcast News
A Linguistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this timely and important study Martin Montgomery unpicks the inside workings of what must still be considered the dominant news medium: broadcast news. Drawing principally on linguistics, but multidisciplinary in its scope, The Discourse of Broadcast News demonstrates that news programmes are...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Some 750 alphabetically-arranged entries provide insights into recent cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes following...
Darwinism in the Press
the Evolution of An Idea
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Numerous books and articles have outlined Darwin's impact on American scientists, philosophers, businessmen, and clergy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Few, however, have undertaken a study of Darwinism in the form in which it was presented to most Americans -- popular newspapers and magazines....
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The present structures of public information in Pakistan were created more on the basis of their technologies than their intended functions. The long gaps between their creations also had their impact. The prevailing conditions too had their influence. The result is that the Federal Government ended...
Omnirambles
The Collected Writings of Damian McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
His explosive insider memoir Power Trip was hailed as the must-read of 2013, making The Thick of It look tame, and now Damian McBride is back with more razor-sharp observations taken from his widely acclaimed blog. The former spin-doctor, a pivotal but notorious figure in the New Labour government,...
Jours tranquilles à Tripoli
Chroniques
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Plongée dans le quotidien de la capitale libyenne...
Point noir des chancelleries, la Libye est devenu un puzzle: territoire morcelé où chaque région, chaque ville a ses propres règles. Des gouvernements parallèles, l’État islamique, les rivalités tribales et l’enjeu de l’or noir...
The Arabic Classroom
Context, Text and Learners
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
The Arabic Classroom is a multicontributor work for trainee and in-service teachers of Arabic as a foreign language. Collected here is recent scholarly work, and also critical writing from Arabic instructors, Arabists and language experts, to examine the status of the teaching and learning of Arabic...
by Kyle Mattes, David P. Redlawsk
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Turn on the television or sign in to social media during election season and chances are you’ll see plenty of negative campaigning. For decades, conventional wisdom has held that Americans hate negativity in political advertising, and some have even argued that its pervasiveness in recent seasons...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The Handbook of Election Coverage Around the World focuses on the news coverage of national elections in democracies around the globe. It brings together and compares election news coverage within a single framework, offering a systematic consideration of various factors. Considering the prominence...
Faith Is a Verb
On the Home Front with Habitat for Humanity and the Campaign to Rebuild America (and the World)
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Faith is a Verb is both an account of the author’s five years volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and a history of the organization, which Goodrich sees as a model institution founded on grassroots, Jeffersonian principles. The reader looks over his shoulder as Goodrich helps restore a burned-out...
Doing News Framing Analysis
Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames – what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. Chapters feature framing analysts reflecting on their own empirical...
by Donald Shanor
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2003
Over the last two decades, following major conflicts in Kuwait, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Americans began to participate more actively than ever before in the world's numerous nationalist, religious, and ethnic conflicts. During this time, however, American news organizations drastically reduced...
Media Control
News as an Institution of Power and Social Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control challenges traditional (and even some radical) perceptions of how the news works. While it's clear that journalists don't operate objectively – reporters don't just cover news, but they make it – Media Control goes a step further...
The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment
Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to the discussion of controversial issues" and "to do so farily, in order to afford reasonable...