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Summary:

It seems to be a truism that today's news media present the news in a more personal and direct way than print newspapers some twenty-five years ago. However, it is far from obvious, how this can be described linguistically. This study develops a model that integrates and differentiates between the various facets of personalisation from a linguistic point of view. It includes 1) contexts that involve the audience by inviting direct interaction and through the use of visual elements; 2) the focus on private individuals who are personally affected by news events.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 2.1. Mass media communication between impersonality and personalisation
• 2.2. Personalisation and linguistic immediacy
• 2.3. Public, private, involving, and immediate
• 2.4. Modelling personalisation
• 3.1. Working with online data
• 3.2. Characteristics of the online news sites 40
• 3.3. Overview of collected data sets
• 3.3.1. online data
• 3.3.2. Times from 1985
• 3.4. Technical aspects
• 3.4.1. Zotero snapshots
• 3.4.2. Screenshots
• 3.4.3. Inconsistencies between formats
• 3.4.4. XML format
• 3.5. comment on statistics
• 4.1. Audience interaction in mass media communication
• 4.1.1. Modelling audience interaction
• 4.1.2. Interaction on online news sites - a brief history
• 4.2. Forms of feedback and interaction
• 4.2.1. Indirect feedback

• 4.2.2. User comments
• 4.2.3. Opinion polls
• 4.2.4. Contact details and profiles
• 4.2.5. Audience content
• 4.3. Strategies for integrating user-generated content
• 4.3.1. Separation: The Times Online and the Guardian
• 4.3.2. Integration: BBC News
• 4.3.3. Blurring: The Mail Online and the Sun
• 4.4. Summary and conclusion
• 5.1. Overview of visual elements in news articles
• 5.2. Images and personalisation
• 5.2.1. Functional relations between visual and textual elements
• 5.2.2. content of visual elements
• 5.2.3. Interactive functions of images: How the content is depicted
• 5.3. Case study: Visual elements in reports on the Edlington hearing
• 5.4. Summary and conclusion
• 6.1. Official, private, and celebrity actors
• 6.2. Main topics and actors in top-listed news articles
• 6.2.1. Topic categories in news articles
• 6.2.2. Actor constellations in different topic categories
• 6.2.3. Topic categories across news sites
• 6.3. Representing the actors
• 6.4. Case study revisited: Personalising content in reports on the Edlington hearing
• 6.5. Summary and conclusion
• 7.1. Forms of speech representation
• 7.1.1. Leech and Short's classification
• 7.1.2. Faithfulness claims
• 7.1.3. Modifications to Leech and Short's classification
• 7.2. Functions of direct speech
• 7.3. Frequency of direct speech
• 7.3.1. Quantifying direct speech
• 7.3.2. Direct speech across subcorpora
• 7.4. Source types
• 7.4.1. Categorisation of source types
• 7.4.2. Named, identified and anonymous sources
• 7.4.3. Private and official sources
• 7.5. Summary and conclusion
• 8.1. Reference of first and second person pronouns
• 8.2. First and second person pronouns as features of immediacy and involvement
• 8.3. Frequency of first and second person pronouns
• 8.3.1. Identification of first and second person pronouns
• 8.3.2. First and second person pronouns across subcorpora
• 8.4. First and second person pronouns within direct speech in news articles
• 8.5. First and second person pronouns outside of direct speech in news articles
• 8.6. First person singular pronouns across different types of articles
• 8.7. Summary and conclusion.

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Author/Creator:

Landert, Daniela

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Personalisation in mass media communication: British online news between public and private [by Landert, D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Personalisation in Mass Media Communication [by Landert, D.] (John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014 — ISBN 9789027256454)

Related Series:

Pragmatics & beyond new series; [volume] 240

Subjects:

Mass media — Social aspects — Great Britain

General Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

P92.G7 L36 2014

ISBNs:

9789027270832 (electronic bk.)
902727083X (electronic bk.)
130640536X (electronic bk.)
9781306405362 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

869520000

Other Control Numbers:

688206 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11597276