The Discourse of News Values

Table of contents

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction
1. The discourse of news values
2. Why study news values?
3. Key terms
4. Corpus assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA)
5. Summary and overview of chapters

PART I Theory
Chapter 2: News values
1. Journalism/Communications Studies
2. Linguistics
3. A new approach to news values

Chapter 3: Discursive news values analysis (DNVA)
1. The discursive construction of news values
2. Our list and labels
3. Conceptualising news values
4. Context-dependency, preferred meaning and the target audience
5. Example analysis and concluding remarks

PART II Analytical Frameworks
Chapter 4: Language and news values
1. Introduction
2. Towards an inventory of linguistic resources
3. Combining news values and example analysis
4. Summary

Chapter 5: Visuals and news values
1. Introduction
2. The relationship between images and news values
3. Visual resources in images
4. Other semiotic resources constructing news value
5. Front page news: An example analysis
6. Concluding remarks

PART III Empirical Analysis
Chapter 6: What is newsworthy about cyclists?
1. Introduction
2. The corpus
3. Analysis of 'typical' news values
4. Analysis of news values around cyclists
5. Summary and conclusion

Chapter 7: Image, news values and Facebook
1. Introduction
2. Social media and news feeds
3. Data and methodology
4. Results
5. Conclusion

Chapter 8: 'All the news that's fit to share': News values in 'most shared' news
1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
3. Verbal patterns
4. Visual patterns
5. Visual-verbal patterns
6. Conclusion

PART IV Extensions
Chapter 9: DNVA as an opportunity for diachronic and cross-cultural research
1. Salacious Fiends and News from the Dead: Diachronic research
2. El terror yihadista, Terroralarm, terrordramat: Cross-cultural research
3. Concluding remarks

Chapter 10: Reflections
1. From little things, big things grow (Chapter 1)
2. Surveying the field: It's a jungle out there (Chapter 2)
3. Situating our own approach to news values: Which corner of the jungle do we inhabit? (Chapter 3)
4. The discourse of news values (Chapters 4 and 5)
5. Case Study 1: 'Pedaling' a critical, topic-based approach to DNVA (Chapter 6)
6. Case Study 2: DNVA and the digital disrupters of social media (Chapter 7)
7. Case Study 3: Combining DNVA and CAMDA (Chapter 8)
8. Xinwen jiazhi, arzeshe khabari, Khabari Iqdaar (Chapter 9)
9. Concluding remarks

Appendices
References
Index