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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810073303321

Autore

Le Elisabeth

Titolo

Editorials and the power of media : interweaving of socio-cultural identities / / Elisabeth Le

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2010

ISBN

1-282-48492-3

9786612484926

90-272-8857-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture ; ; 35

Disciplina

302.230944

Soggetti

Journalism - Political aspects - France

Press and politics - France

Editorials - France - History - 20th century

Discourse analysis - Political aspects - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A framework for the study of media socio-cultural identities through their editorials -- Structures of Le Monde's editorials -- French institutional issues and Le Monde -- The enlargement of the European Union and Le Monde -- The second Chechen War and Le Monde -- Le Monde, editorials and politics.

Sommario/riassunto

Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it. In this sense, they are snapshots of media socio-cultural identities whose study is crucial for the understanding of media actions and interactions on the political stage. This book contributes to the study of media roles in politics with a methodological "discursive communication identity framework" and its application to a corpus of editorials. This allows for the definition of editorials as a genre, and it reveals that, thanks to a very adroit interweaving of their socio-cultural identities, news media can play a much more active role on the political stage than studies on framing and agenda setting have hitherto shown. The place of media in political communication models might therefore need to be reviewed. This book is intended for all those interested in media and politics



whatever their academic specializations.