Understanding news / John Hartley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartley, John.

Series:

Studies in Culture and Communication

Studies in culture and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Abingdon [England] : Routledge, 1995, c1982.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.

Contents:

Cover; UNDERSTANDING NEWS; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; 1 NEWS AS COMMUNICATION; In the beginning; News-discourse; Talking and writing about the news; 2 READING THE NEWS; Reality and relationships; Sign-systems; Signs; Paradigm and syntagm; Multi-accentuality; Orientation; Connotation and myth; Icons; Simultaneous signifiers; Codes and conventions; Discourses and referents; Socially-structured discourse; 3 NEWS AND SOCIETY; Topics; Treatment; Telling; News in society; Capital; The State; Relative autonomy and ideology; Winning consent: hegemony

From class to culture4 THOSE WHO THREATEN DISORDER; Preferred readings and ideological closure; 'News at Ten'; Trial by semiotics; 5 SELECTION AND CONSTRUCTION; News values; Mapping reality: consensus and dissent; Mapping the outsiders: dissent; 6 HAIL FELLOW WELL MET; Mode of address; Common sense and images of the audience: conversation; Common sense and 'understanding': the bardic function; 7 A WINTER OF DISCONTENT; Elements of news narrative: visual structures; Institutional and accessed voices: verbal structures; News narrative: fact and fiction; The 'Nine O'Clock News'

8 PRODUCING THE NEWS: FOR OURSELVESProducing the audience; Losing the audience; The 'other' news; Finding the audience; 9 CONSUMING INTEREST; Experience and mediation; Subjectivity; How is ideology 'consumed'?; Man-made news; Negotiating with ideology; 10 CRITICIZING THE NEWS: WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO FIND IT; Projects; Alternatives; Further reading and study; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

"First published in 1982 by Methum & Co. Ltd. Reprinted twice. Reprinted 1987"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138833951

1138833959

9781315002378

131500237X

9781136105883

1136105883

OCLC:

852757723