The purpose of the study is to analyse the relationship between the capitalist hegemonic order and the mass media, with the latter restricted to two elite newspapers and the selection of news materials from three bodies of international media coverage: NATO’s military intervention in former Yugoslavia, 1999, the political demonstrations against the IMF and the World Bank in Prague, 2000, and 9/11, 2001. There are two sub-purposes, one theoretical-methodological and one political-democratic. The first sub-purpose is to accomplish an integrative kind of media analysis (Williams 1977) in which the approaches of political economy (emphasising the economic/material) and cultural studies/discourse analysis (emphasising the symbolic/discursive) are supposed to interact. The hypothesis is that such a ‘third way’ approach is possible to achieve through the qualitative analysis of journalistic modes of writing. The second sub-purpose (the political-democratic one) takes an interest in the modes’ political dimensions. In what manners do the identified modes counter-act, or co-produce, miscellaneous political struggles? In addition, the purpose of the study also includes a more practical dimension. In the light of the results, how should one nowadays imagine an emancipating kind of journalism that tries to explain, unmask, or even counteract the mechanisms of the contemporary global capitalist system?The news media material consists of 438 items (articles, photos etc.), which are analysed by means of a cultural materialist CDA (critical discourse analysis). An identified journalistic mode is analysed as: (1) a practice with certain cognitive, discursive and linguistic characteristics, (2) a structural product (as constituted by underlying social and material structures), and (3) a dialectical force, being a potentially active part of an ongoing mode of production (the capitalist or another mode). The last analytical moment is the central one.Two categories of journalistic modes are identified…
Contents
Introduction
Contemporary capitalism (on de-permanence and permanence)
The scientific problem (on the materiality of media discourse)
Three cases of news media coverage YU/Kosovo,
the Prague-demonstrations and 9/11
The purpose of the study
Structure
Theory and previous research
The historical materialist perspective
Three problems
The problem of political liberalisation of scientific practice
The problem of fuzziness (of cultural studies)
The problem of rigidity (of the political economy of communication)
Conclusion
The relationship between media discourse and capitalism (on journalistic modes of writing)
Modes of writing: an introduction
(1) The mode of writing as a discursive practice
(2) The mode of writing as a structural product
(3) The mode of writing as a dialectical force
Method
Cultural materialist CDA
The first-step CDA
The second-step CDA
On generalisations
On validity and reliability
the analysis of journalistic modes
The analysis of journalistic modes
The three bodies of media coverage: a general overview
Structure
The Multi-colouring and Greying Modes
Introduction
The ideologeme
The modes as discursive practices
The structural constitution of the modes
The modes as dialectical forces
The Remote Control Mode
Introduction
The ideologeme
The mode as a discursive practic
The structural constitution of the mode
The mode as a dialectical force
Differentiation
Introduction
The ideologeme
The mode as a discursive practice
The structural constitution of the mode
The mode as a dialectical force
Semiotic Compressio
Introduction
The ideologeme
The mode as a discursive practice
The structural constitution of the mode
The mode as a dialectical force
Locking
Introduction
The ideologeme
The mode as a discursive practice
The structural constitution of the mode
The mode as a dialectical force
Author: Berglez , Peter
Source: orebro University
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