Understanding news

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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.

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Full title :Understanding news / John Hartley.

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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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1982.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Methuen
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1982.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781136105883, 1136105883
oclc:ocn852158951
LC Classification:PN4731
Dewey Decimal:302.2/3

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 O…

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Electronic books Fernsehsendung journalism Journalisme Journalismus Journalistiek Massenmedien Nachricht Nachrichtensendung nieuws SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies Zeitung