‘Value added’: Language, image and news values

Bednarek, Monika; Caple, Helen

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2012.05.006

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“…The analysis did not isolate semantic features. Finally, the third layer of analysis (L3) showed how news narratives about migrant border crossings can produce further levels of reading through hyperlink contents (Boje, 2001;Bednarek and Caple, 2012;De Maeyer, 2014;De Maeyer and Le Cam, 2015). This approach enabled the observation of meanings while they were reshaped and transmitted across different online resources.…”

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Exploring online news: What elpais.com’s and eldiario.es’s narratives tell about the migrant crossings of the Morocco–Spain border

Renzo

2017

Journalism

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This article explores the narrative construction of online news about the migrant crossings of the Morocco–Spain border. In particular, it analyses 54 news items that were published in two Spanish news media, elpais.com and eldiario.es, from September 2013 to May 2015. A semiotic-informed approach is proposed here to discuss how the two news media narrated the migrant border crossings and to outline how they communicated migration-related meanings and cultural values through news texts, images, videos and hyperlink contents. The results emphasise how readers can engage with online news content in different ways and through distinct although intertwined levels of reading.

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Exploring online news: What elpais.com’s and eldiario.es’s narratives tell about the migrant crossings of the Morocco–Spain border

Renzo

2017

Journalism

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“…iconography, attributes, settings, salience), representational and ideational choices (e.g. classifi cation of social actors, personalisation vs. impersonalisation, specifi cation vs. genericisation, nomination vs. functionalisation), transitivity and verb processes, also hinting at how newsworthiness is discursively constructed in the media, with reference to both verbal and visual language and their reciprocal interactions (Bednarek/Caple 2012. The above mentioned strategies will be analysed in context by drawing on systemic-functional theories of language and semiosis of communication to discover the functions they play in discourse, for example showing how they conceal or take for granted through and via language and visual design in two different online newspapers, namely the Telegraph (TT henceforth) and the Guardian (TG henceforth).…”

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“…That online newspaper articles are specifi c multimodal artefacts incorporating a wealth of semiotic resources is nothing new, as research literature has shown (Knox 2007(Knox , 2009Bednarek/Caple 2012Djonov/ Knox 2014). For example, Caple argues that research in news was almost exclusively focused on verbiage, but a growing interest in visual communication has changed this tendency.…”

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“…"enormous fl ood". Considering the linguistic devices listed by Bednarek/Caple (2012 Bednarek/Caple 2012 But how is this article, a comment that explicitly and implicitly invites to align with the Hungarian government strict control measures against this unprecedented wave is translated into images The images reproduced in Figures 1-4 starkly contrast with what is documented verbally. The commentary provided by the columnist develops an argument that can be broadly defi ned as supporting Orban's conservative and repressive policy and doing so by building on previous rhetorical strategies to put forward the following arguments: 1) not "everyone" is a refugee, 2) refugees are a negligible minority, 3) the others are most likely terrorists, 4) it is perfectly reasonable and in fact advisable to keep them out of Europe.…”

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"The Semantics of Migration". Translation as Transduction: Remaking Meanings Across Modes

Sindoni

2017

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This paper adopts a multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) approach to analyse how meanings are produced and circulated in British major corporate digital media outlets via the multimodal notion of transduction (Kress 1997;Mavers 2011;Newfi eld 2014). Transduction is a form of translation from one semiotic system to another one, for example from verbal language to images and vice versa. However, transductions cannot be interpreted as mere transferrals from one resource to another one, and are here interpreted as multiplying meanings (Lemke 2002). As a case study, this paper will select some online columns from the Telegraph and the Guardian, drawing from a monitor corpus that is under construction to date and that includes multimodal data from the British digital press reporting on the "European migrant crisis" in 2015. The columns selected for this study deal with how people on the move are and/ or should be labelled (e.g. Migrants? Refugees? Asylum seekers? Potential terrorists? See Baker et al. 2008). The columns will be commented qualitatively from a multimodal critical discourse framework of analysis, with the goal of shedding light on how pictorial materials (e.g. pictures and diagrams) can amplify, reduce or even contradict what is argued in the verbal text. In the conclusive remarks, some refl ections will be presented with a view to possible future lines of research.

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“…Specifically, Harcup & O'Neill call for future research that takes into account 'visual content' as a news value in its own right. The most common news values, according to an overview of the literature on journalistic news value (Bednarek & Caple 2012), include: negativity, prominence, proximity, elite persons, impact, the unexpected, drama/intensity and personification. A recent study of the discursive construal of news value in photographs, examining how photographs enhance certain news values through content or visual devices, proposes 'aesthetics' as a visual news value (Bednarek & Caple 2016).…”

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A Faster Kind of Photojournalism?

Nilsson¹

2017

Nordicom Review

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This article examines factors influencing the editorial processing of photographs, the impact of photojournalistic practices on those processes as well as perceptions of images. Perspectives on visual gatekeeping and the news value of photographs were applied to a newsroom and interview study with a specific focus on photographs for the main news section of a Swedish newspaper. Findings identified routines, publication formats and resources as key factors, with some challenges posed by mobile publication formats and a focus on routine news. Photo editors were found to have a key function asserting expertise in a shared and interactive process. Yet changing routines and a reduced visual expertise on weekends were found to result in some lower image quality. While the 'observed moment' appeared to remain a photojournalistic ideal among visual gatekeepers, there were divergent perceptions found of the current and future functions of the news photograph.

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‘Value added’: Language, image and news values

Cited by 141 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring online news: What elpais.com’s and eldiario.es’s narratives tell about the migrant crossings of the Morocco–Spain border

Exploring online news: What elpais.com’s and eldiario.es’s narratives tell about the migrant crossings of the Morocco–Spain border

"The Semantics of Migration". Translation as Transduction: Remaking Meanings Across Modes

A Faster Kind of Photojournalism?

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