[ecrea] new book on BBC, Al-Jazeera, CNN

>Title: News from the BBC, CNN, and Al-Jazeera: 
>How the Three Broadcasters Cover the Middle East 
>Author: Leon Barkho, Jönköping University 
>(Sweden) publisher: Hampton Press The three 
>gigantic media corporations, the BBC, CNN, and 
>Al-Jazeera, are largely responsible for refining 
>and shaping our views of events in the world. 
>Their informational and communicative arm is 
>unprecedented in the history of human 
>communication. This book deals with their Middle 
>East coverage, particularly the 
>Israeli-Palestinian struggle and the war in 
>Iraq. The picture it paints may not be a happy 
>one for readers who have long taken the 
>â¬Sneutrality⬝ and â¬Sobjectivity⬝ of the 
>three media behemoths for granted. The book 
>helps readers first to become conscious of how 
>the more powerful in the society work to control 
>our lives through their discourse. It shows how 
>and why the three broadcasters do that. It might 
>be shocking for some readers to realize that the 
>language we read and listen to is what the three 
>broadcasters select to shape the world their own 
>way and not the way their observers 
>(journalists) want it to be or we the audiences 
>expect it to be. Contents: INTRODUCTION. The CDA 
>Perspective of the Book. What is the Book About? 
>The Target of the Book. Some Implications of the 
>Bookâ¬"s CDA Perspective. THE SOCIAL AND 
>LINGUISTIC REALITY OF NEWS. Which Journalistic 
>Epistemology? Is it â¬STell it as it is,⬝ or 
>â¬SIt is as You Tell it⬝ or Something Else? 
>How to Integrate Social and Linguistic Reality. 
>The Observer and Social Reality Creation. Is the 
>Observerâ¬"s Role in Journalistic Reality 
>Creation Vanishing? THE SOCIAL AND LINGUISTIC 
>POWER OF NEWS. Analysis. Clausal Hegemony. 
>Power. Hegemony. Ideology. Why Critical? THE 
>DIALOGIC AND SYMBOLIC POWER OF NEWS DISCOURSE. 
>Macro vs. Micro Discourse Levels. The Novel and 
>Hard News. Investigating Role of Power in News 
>Discourse. Power and â¬SSystems⬝. The Business 
>Narrative Factor. Strategic Positioning and 
>Discourse. LIMITATIONS OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE 
>ANALYSIS. Issues to Solve. DATA AND METHOD. 
>Visiting and Observing. The Researcherâ¬"s Role. 
>Textual Material. Media as a Source. Interviews. 
>THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ALJAZEERA VERSUS 
>THE BBC AND CNN. Social and Linguistic 
>Construction of News. Method. Analysis. Issues 
>of Style. What Does Al-Jazeera Say? Consequences 
>of AJAâ¬"s Way of Reporting. BBC, CCN, AND 
>AJAâ¬"S LINGUISTIC AND SOCIAL LINKS AT LEVELS 
>HIGHER THAN LEXIS. Four Layers of Hard News 
>Discourse: Quoting, Paraphrasing, Background and 
>Comment. English Online News from the BBC, CNN, 
>and AJE. Analysis. Social Implications. Research 
>Implications. AL-JAZEERA ARABIC VERSUS THE BBC 
>AND CNN: HOW DO THEY CONSTRUCT THEIR SOCIAL AND 
>LINGUISTIC REALITIES? The Interface of Editorial 
>Power and Political Power. Lexis and Power. 
>Lexical Strategy. Symbolic Terms. Rival 
>Discourses. Audience Identity. â¬SMacabre⬝ 
>Discourse. Reporting Verbs. Reporters as 
>Speakers. Texts within Texts. THE SOCIAL AND 
>LINGUISTIC REALITY OF AL-JAZEERA ENGLISH VERSUS 
>THE BBC AND CNN ENGLISH SERVICES. Analysis. Less 
>â¬SLoaded⬝. Type of Verb. â¬SUnnatural Before 
>Now â¬SNatural⬝. THE SOCIAL AND LINGUISTIC 
>ROLE OF INTERNAL GUIDELINES IN SHAPING THE NEWS. 
>AJAâ¬"s Internal Guidelines. AJEâ¬"s Internal 
>Guidelines. BBCâ¬"s Internal Guidelines. The 
>Interface of Linguistic and Social Reality. 
>CONCLUSION. References. Author Index. Subject 
>Index. 2010 198 pages ISBN 1-57273-974-1 $49.50 
>cloth ISBN 1-57273-975-8 $23.95 paper
>

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New Book:
Trans-Reality Television
The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience.
Lexington. (Sofie Van Bauwel & Nico Carpentier eds.)
http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739131885
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