Media discourse : representation and interaction / Mary Talbot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talbot, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Mass media and language.

Physical Description:

vi, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]

Summary:

This lively and accessible study of media and discourse combines theoretical reflection with empirical engagement, and brings together insights from a range of disciplines. Within media and cultural studies, the study of media texts is dominated by an exclusive focus on representation. This book adds long overdue attention to social interaction.

The book is divided into two sections. The first outlines key theoretical issues and concepts, including informalisation, genre hybridisation, positioning, dialogism and discourse. The second is a sustained interrogation of social interaction in and around media. Re-examining issues of representation and interaction, it critically assesses work on the para-social and broadcast sociability, then explores distinct sites of interaction: production communities, audience communities and 'interactivity' with audiences.

Key Features: The book is rich with fascinating examples involving British and US media, including radio, television, magazines and newspapers and their Internet spin-offs. It brings together insights from conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, cultural studies and media anthropology. It is key reading for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates doing media studies, communication and cultural studies and journalism studies.

Contents:

Part 1 Key issues in analysing media discourse

1 Introduction: media and discourse 3

What is media discourse and why study it? 3

Media and the circuit of culture 5

Texts, discourse and discourses 9

Discourse as social practice in critical discourse analysis 12

2 Reconfigurations 18

Time and place 18

Public and private 22

Informalisation and infotainment 25

Hybridisation 29

Parody and pastiche 33

Comedy central: Harlan McCraney 35

3 Texts and positioning 43

Circuit of culture and reading positions 44

Text and positioning in critical discourse analysis 46

'Guilt over games boys play': heteronormativity in a problem page 49

Men's magazines: a phallacious fraternity? 51

Texts and audiences 57

4 Dialogism and voice 63

Intertextuality and the dialogic word 64

Footing and 'neutrality' in broadcast journalism 66

Randy fish boss branded a stinker: feminism on the Sun's page three? 71

Positioning, authority and erasure 74

Part 2 Representation and interaction

5 Simulated interaction 83

Three types of interaction 83

'Para-social interaction' 85

Sociability 86

Synthetic personality and synthetic personalisation 92

Simulated interaction on Radio 1xtra 96

6 Interpersonal meaning in broadcast texts: representing social identities and relationships 99

Travel broadens the mind? 99

Expertise, authority and 'taste' in lifestyle TV 106

'Transforming these school dinners is gonna be tough': Jamie's dinner ladies 109

Jeremy Paxman: "Britain's number one interrogator' 121

7 Production communities and audience communities 129

Frontstage in production-community interaction 130

Backstage glimpses 138

'Zoo' media 142

Television talk and talking with the television 144

8 Interactivity 154

Backstage engagements 154

Frontstage: fifteen minutes of fame 157

Asymmetries 163

New technology 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-192) and index.

ISBN:

9780748623471

0748623477

0748623485

9780748623488

0748630074

9780748630073

OCLC:

154711288