Editorials and the Power of Media
Interweaving of socio-cultural identities
1st Edition
Published on 13. January 2010
XIV, 239 pages
978-90-272-8857-8 (ISBN)
Description
Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it. In this sense, they are snapshots of media socio-cultural identities whose study is crucial for the understanding of media actions and interactions on the political stage. This book contributes to the study of media roles in politics with a methodological "discursive communication identity framework" and its application to a corpus of editorials. This allows for the definition of editorials as a genre, and it reveals that, thanks to a very adroit interweaving of their socio-cultural identities, news media can play a much more active role on the political stage than studies on framing and agenda setting have hitherto shown. The place of media in political communication models might therefore need to be reviewed. This book is intended for all those interested in media and politics whatever their academic specializations.
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- Editorials and the Power of Media
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- References
- Chapter 1. A framework for the study of media socio-cultural identities through their editorials
- 1.1 Why study editorials?
- 1.1.1 Media and politics
- 1.1.2 Le Monde
- 1.1.3 The political context in 1999-2001
- 1.1.4 Research question
- 1.2 A discursive communication identity framework
- 1.2.1 Approaches to identity
- 1.2.2 Communication studies approach
- 1.2.3 Discursive approach
- 1.2.4 Methodological framework
- 1.3 Definition of the corpus
- Chapter 2. Structures of Le Monde's editorials
- 2.1 Editorials' attitude values
- 2.2 Editorials as complex speech acts
- 2.3 Editorials' addressees
- 2.4 Newspaper's self-representation
- 2.4.1 The place of "on" in the argumentation
- 2.4.2 On"'s indefiniteness: Examples
- 2.5 Synthesis: A provisional definition of Le Monde's editorials' genre
- 2.5.1 The official purpose of Le Monde's editorials
- 2.5.2 A provisional definition of editorials' genre in Le Monde
- 2.5.3 Examples: Le Monde's individual identity on the background of its French collective identity
- Chapter 3. French institutional issues and Le Monde
- 3.1 The "institutional issues" in Le Monde's editorials
- 3.1.1 Substantive frames
- 3.1.2 Actors
- 3.1.3 Synthesis
- 3.2 The "institutional issues" as discussed by the Parliament, presented on a public TV channel (A2), and thought about by public opinion
- 3.2.1 Cohabitation
- 3.2.2 Justice reform
- 3.2.2.1 In the National Assembly
- 3.2.2.2 On A2
- 3.2.2.3 In the public opinion
- 3.2.2.4 Synthesis
- 3.2.3 Five-year presidential mandate
- 3.2.3.1 In the public opinion
- 3.2.3.2 In the National Assembly
- 3.2.3.3 On A2
- 3.2.3.4 Synthesis
- 3.2.4 Order of presidential and legislative elections
- 3.2.5 Méry's tape and the presidential immunity
- 3.2.5.1 On A2
- 3.2.5.2 In the National Assembly
- 3.2.5.3 In the public opinion
- 3.2.5.4 Synthesis
- 3.3 Conclusion: Le Monde's role in debates on French institutional issues
- Chapter 4. The enlargement of the European Union and Le Monde
- 4.1. The issue of the European institutions in Le Monde's editorials
- 4.1.1 Substantive frames
- 4.1.2 Actors
- 4.1.3 Synthesis
- 4.2. The issue of the European institutions on French public TV channel (A2) and in the Parliament
- 4.2.1 Enlargment process and institutional reforms
- 4.2.2 Role of France and Germany in the construction of Europe
- 4.2.3 Chirac's speech to the Bundestag
- 4.2.4 Chirac's speech to the European Parliament
- 4.2.5 French presidency of the EU and Nice Summit
- 4.2.6 Jospin's speech
- 4.2.7 Irish "No" to the Nice Treaty and the Gothenburg Summit
- 4.2.8 Synthesis
- 4.3. The issue of the European institutions in the French public opinion
- 4.4. Conclusion: Le Monde's role in the French debates on the European Union's enlargement
- Chapter 5. The second Chechen war and Le Monde
- 5.1 The Second Chechen war in Le Monde's editorials
- 5.1.1 Substantive frames
- 5.1.2 Actors
- 5.1.3 Synthesis
- 5.2 The Second Chechen war as dealt with by the French Executive
- 5.2.1 Positions of the European Council
- 5.2.2 Positions of the President
- 5.2.3 Positions of the Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 5.2.4 Synthesis
- 5.3 The second Chechen war as presented on a French public TV channel (A2)
- 5.3.1 Positive Western reactions
- 5.3.2 Negative Western reactions
- 5.3.3 Russian reactions indirectly negative towards Russia/Putin
- 5.3.4 Russian and Chechen reactions directly negative towards Russia/Putin
- 5.3.5 Synthesis
- 5.4 The second Chechen war as discussed in the Parliament
- 5.5 The second Chechen war as considered by the public opinion
- 5.6. Conclusion: Le Mondes role in the French debates on the second Chechen war
- Chapter 6. Le Monde, editorials and politics
- 6.1 Editorials as a genre in Le Monde
- 6.2 Editorials and Le Monde's dynamic use of its "concentric network of socio-cultural identities"
- 6.2.1 Use of identities
- 6.2.2 Interweaving of identities
- 6.2.3 Identities and "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"
- 6.3 Le Monde's editorials as political discourse
- 6.3.1 Its nature
- 6.3.2 Its locus
- 6.3.3 Its legitimacy
- 6.3.4 Its strategies
- 6.3.5 Le Monde as a political actor
- 6.4 Editorials and democracy
- 6.5 Conclusion:The discursive communication identity framework and socio-political identities
- Appendix 1. Editorials
- Russia (33 editorials)
- Europe (26 editorials)
- France - Internal Politics (38 editorials)
- Random (53 editorials)
- Appendix 2. Structure analysis
- A2.1 Coherence analysis
- A2.2 Types of speech acts
- A2.3 Addressees of directives
- Appendix 3. Coherence model
- A3.1 Relations of coherence
- A3.2 Definitions
- A3.2.2 Theme
- A3.2.3 Macrostructure
- A3.3 Hierarchical structure of a text
- A3.4 Coding
- A3.5 Example
- Appendix 4. Style analysis
- A4.1. Personal markers representing Le Monde
- A4.1.1 On" excluding Le Monde
- A4.1.2 Le Monde as a news provider (LMnews)
- A4.1.3 Le Monde as a social actor in its own name (LMactor)
- A4.1.4 Le Monde as a representative of society (LMrep)
- A4.2. attitude analysis (appraisal system)
- Appendix 5. Methodology tables
- Appendix 6. French political landscape and institutions (1999-2001)
- A6.1 President of the Republic
- A6.2 Prime minister and government
- A6.3 Parliament
- A6.4 Main political parties
- A6.5 Judicial system
- Appendix 7. Le style du Monde (2002 Excerpts
- A7.1. Le Monde et ses valeurs
- A7.2. Le Monde et l'information
- A7.3. Le Monde et le commentaire
- A7.4. Le Monde et ses lecteurs
- References
- Index
- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
