Personalisation in mass media communication : British online news between public and private / Daniela Landert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landert, Daniela.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 240.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; Volume 240

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Great Britain.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

It seems to be a truism that today's news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago. However, it is far from obvious, how this can be described linguistically. This study develops a model that integrates and differentiates between the various facets of personalisation from a linguistic point of view. It includes 1) contexts that involve the audience by inviting direct interaction and through the use of visual elements; 2) the focus on private individuals who are personally affected by news events; and 3) the use of communicative i

Contents:

Personalisation in Mass Media Communication; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Personalisation in mass media; 2.1 Mass media communication between impersonality and personalisation; 2.2 Personalisation and linguistic immediacy; 2.3 Public, private, involving, and immediate; 2.4 Modelling personalisation; 3. Data collection; 3.1 Working with online data; 3.2 Characteristics of the online news sites; 3.3 Overview of collected data sets; 3.3.1 The online data; 3.3.2 The Times from 1985

3.4 Technical aspects3.4.1 Zotero snapshots; 3.4.2 Screenshots; 3.4.3 Inconsistencies between formats; 3.4.4 XML format; 3.5 A comment on statistics; 4. Feedback and interaction; 4.1 Audience interaction in mass media communication; 4.1.1 Modelling audience interaction; 4.1.2 Interaction on online news sites - a brief history; 4.2 Forms of feedback and interaction; 4.2.1 Indirect feedback; 4.2.2 User comments; 4.2.3 Opinion polls; 4.2.4 Contact details and profiles; 4.2.5 Audience content; 4.3 Strategies for integrating user-generated content

4.3.1 Separation: The Times Online and the Guardian4.3.2 Integration: BBC News; 4.3.3 Blurring: The Mail Online and the Sun; 4.4 Summary and conclusion; 5. Visual elements; 5.1 Overview of visual elements in news articles; 5.2 Images and personalisation; 5.2.1 Functional relations between visual and textual elements; 5.2.2 The content of visual elements; 5.2.3 Interactive functions of images: How the content is depicted; 5.3 Case study: Visual elements in reports on the Edlington hearing; 5.4 Summary and conclusion; 6. News actors; 6.1 Official, private, and celebrity actors

6.2 Main topics and actors in top-listed news articles6.2.1 Topic categories in news articles; 6.2.2 Actor constellations in different topic categories; 6.2.3 Topic categories across news sites; 6.3 Representing the actors; 6.4 Case study revisited: Personalising content in reports on the Edlington hearing; 6.5 Summary and conclusion; 7. Direct speech; 7.1 Forms of speech representation; 7.1.1 Leech and Short's classification; 7.1.2 Faithfulness claims; 7.1.3 Modifications to Leech and Short's classification; 7.2 Functions of direct speech; 7.3 Frequency of direct speech

7.3.1 Quantifying direct speech7.3.2 Direct speech across subcorpora; 7.4 Source types; 7.4.1 Categorisation of source types; 7.4.2 Named, identified and anonymous sources; 7.4.3 Private and official sources; 7.5 Summary and conclusion; 8. Personal pronouns; 8.1 Reference of first and second person pronouns; 8.2 First and second person pronouns as features of immediacy and involvement; 8.3 Frequency of first and second person pronouns; 8.3.1 Identification of first and second person pronouns; 8.3.2 First and second person pronouns across subcorpora

8.4 First and second person pronouns within direct speech in news articles

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 4, 2014).

ISBN:

902727083X (ebook)

9789027270832 (ebook)