Discourses of Disorder
Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media
Published on 25. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4744-3544-4 (ISBN)
Description
Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder. A range of case studies are presented which cut across time, communicative modality and genre, and geo-political context.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
2 black and white illustrations, 12 black and white tables, 25 black and white halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-3544-4 (9781474435444)
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10/2018
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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Persons
Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. Darren Kelsey is Senior Lecturer and Head of Media, Culture, Heritage in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University
Content
Introduction
PART I: LANGUAGE
1. Political spin in early newspapers: Comparing narratives of the Baltimore Riots in June and July 1812
Juhani Rudanko
2. Moral storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, metaphor and ideology
Darren Kelsey
3. Why do they protest? The discursive construction of 'motives' of the Chilean student movement (2011-2013) in the alternative press
Carolina Perez-Arredondo
4. Crying children and bleeding pensioners against Rambo's troop: Perspectivization in German newspaper reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests
Gerrit Kotzur
5. Taking a stance through the voice of 'others': Attribution in news coverage of a public sector workers' strike in two Botswana newspapers
Boitshwarelo Rantsudu
6. Media 'militant' tendencies: How strike action in the news press is discursively constructed as inherently violent
Matt Davies and Rotsukhon Nophakhun
PART II: MULTIMODALITY
7. Metaphor and the Miners' Strike: A multimodal analysis
Christopher Hart
8. Strategic manoeuvring in Arab Spring political cartoons
Rania El Nakkouzi
9. 'Eu nao mereco morrer assassinado': On- and off-line protest by favela residents in Rio de Janeiro and mainstream media reactions to it: A multimodal approach
Andrea Mayr
10. Rioting and disorderly behaviour as political media practice
Serjoscha Ostermeyer and David Sittler
PART I: LANGUAGE
1. Political spin in early newspapers: Comparing narratives of the Baltimore Riots in June and July 1812
Juhani Rudanko
2. Moral storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, metaphor and ideology
Darren Kelsey
3. Why do they protest? The discursive construction of 'motives' of the Chilean student movement (2011-2013) in the alternative press
Carolina Perez-Arredondo
4. Crying children and bleeding pensioners against Rambo's troop: Perspectivization in German newspaper reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests
Gerrit Kotzur
5. Taking a stance through the voice of 'others': Attribution in news coverage of a public sector workers' strike in two Botswana newspapers
Boitshwarelo Rantsudu
6. Media 'militant' tendencies: How strike action in the news press is discursively constructed as inherently violent
Matt Davies and Rotsukhon Nophakhun
PART II: MULTIMODALITY
7. Metaphor and the Miners' Strike: A multimodal analysis
Christopher Hart
8. Strategic manoeuvring in Arab Spring political cartoons
Rania El Nakkouzi
9. 'Eu nao mereco morrer assassinado': On- and off-line protest by favela residents in Rio de Janeiro and mainstream media reactions to it: A multimodal approach
Andrea Mayr
10. Rioting and disorderly behaviour as political media practice
Serjoscha Ostermeyer and David Sittler