[ecrea] new book - Macgilchrist, Felicitas: Journalism and the Political: Discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia

Dear list members,

I'm very pleased to announce a new publication:

Macgilchrist, Felicitas (2011): Journalism and the Political: Discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, Vol. 40)

Abstract: Journalism is often thought of as the -fourth estate' of democracy. This book suggests that journalism plays a more radical role in politics, and explores new ways of thinking about news media discourse. It develops an approach to investigating both hegemonic discourse and discursive fissures, inconsistencies and tensions. By analysing international news coverage of post-Soviet Russia, including the Beslan hostage-taking, Gazprom, Litvinenko and human rights issues, it demonstrates the (re)production of the -common-sense' social order in which one particular area of the world is more developed, civilized and democratic than other areas. However, drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and other post-foundational thinkers, it also suggests that journalism is precisely the site where the instability of this global social order becomes visible. The book should be of interest to scholars of discourse analysis, journalism and communication studies, cultural studies and political scien
 ce, and to anyone interested in -positive' discourse analysis and practical counter-discursive strategies.

Further details:
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC%2040

All the best,
Felicitas

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Dr. Felicitas Macgilchrist
- wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | Research Fellow -
Georg-Eckert-Institut fuer internationale Schulbuchforschung
Celler Str. 3
D-38114 Braunschweig
http://www.gei.de/de/mitarbeiter/dr-macgilchrist




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