Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a particular strand of discourse analysis that focuses on
the role of language in society and in political processes, traditionally targeting texts …

The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in news media research in offering the
first book-length treatment of the discursive construction of news values through words and …

This essential textbook provides a clear and authoritative introduction to qualitative and
quantitative methods for studying media and communication. Written by two highly …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

It is widely thought that news organizations exhibit ideological bias, but rigorously
quantifying such slant has proven methodologically challenging. Through a combination of …

An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians;
what politicians actually do on'the backstage'in political organizations. The book offers …

Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in the late 1960s, research
into the relationship between language and society has advanced almost beyond …

Featuring a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a
practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries. Building on a …

Eine der zentralen Aufgaben von Journalisten besteht darin, die Ereignisse auszuwählen,
über die in den verschiedenen Nachrichtenmedien berichtet wird. Wie gehen sie dabei mit …

How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind
international news images, Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic …