Journalism And Mass communication

Deception cues in political speeches: verbal and non-verbal traits of prevarication

by Nicla Rossini

In Esposito A. et al. (2011) Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issue. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6800, pp. 408-418. Springer-Verlag: Berlin and Heidelberg. Invited chapter.
Please find it on Springer:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/64l056688102q3q2/

N.B.: THIS IS A PRE-PUBLICATION DRAFT. IT MAY CONTAIN ERROS AND DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THE PUBLISHED VERSION. FOR QUOTATION PLEASE ASK ME A COPY OF THE PUBLISHED VERSION OR FIND IT ON SPRINGER.

Deception is a determinant social phenomenon already observed
extensively in the literature of several different... more Deception is a determinant social phenomenon already observed
extensively in the literature of several different research fields. This study presents the analysis of both micro-expressions and voice features in sample TV clips, in order to outline a defined research agenda on the topic.

Media Monstering: From Tabloid Demons to Transnational Cyberbullies

by Jim Clarke

Won joint first prize.

Gender in Political News Reportage: Messenger and Message

by Lelia Samson

The Fourth Estate in the USA and UK: Discourses of truth and power

by Jesse Hearns-Branaman

unpublished PhD thesis

This thesis examines the ways in which political journalists in the USA and UK talk about issues of truth and power as... more This thesis examines the ways in which political journalists in the USA and UK talk about issues of truth and power as it relates to journalism’s role as the Fourth Estate. The theoretical basis comes from a critique of the two major structures underpinning the Fourth Estate, that of epistemology (the study of truth) and ideology (broadly, the study of power and ideas). This involves unpacking and critically examining the ability of news media to convey ‘true’ information and the ideological formations in which the news media production practice is situated. The epistemological theories of Realism, Pragmatism, Antirealism and Hyperrealism will first be elucidated in an in-depth theoretical discussion, focusing on the contributions of Baudrillard. Four major theories of ideology, that of personal ideological bias, chaos, control, and ideology as fetishistic disavowal will be examined, this time focusing on the work of Žižek.
This theoretical discussion is complimented by an analysis of interview questions relating to epistemological concerns and to ideology. The empirical data consists of twenty interviews conducted with political correspondents in the USA and UK. A version of critical discourse analysis is used to examine the ways in which journalists talk about the issues raised by the questions, what is termed their ‘discursive strategies.’ The categories for analysis are grounded in the discursive strategies used by the journalists themselves, examined to elaborate not simply the explicit content, but the deeper implicit meanings inherent in the way they answer.
This provided both an original theoretical discussion and an original set of empirically-derived data. It also allows us to further understand the role of journalism as the Fourth Estate, the types of ‘truth’ it brings to us, the types of ideologies that underpin the news production process via news media professionals, and how the system is maintained despite its inherent contradictions.

Nucleare e mass media in Italia

by Andrea Candela

in "Problemi dell'Informazione", 35, 2010: 177-192

(Nuclear energy and mass media in Italy)

The paper examines the difficult relationship between science,... more (Nuclear energy and mass media in Italy)

The paper examines the difficult relationship between science, mass media and public opinion, referring to nuclear energy issue. Recovering the Morin's notion of "partecipatory democracy", the article try to define a more objective method for public communication of science in the media.

The border within: India and Manipur

by Abhijit Roy

Essay in 'Creativity Beyond Borders' ed. John Hutnyk. Pavement Books, London. (forthcoming in 2012).

Excerpt:
...So the very portrayal of Sharmila being caught between two conflicting options of the political and... more Excerpt:
...So the very portrayal of Sharmila being caught between two conflicting options of the political and the personal would be an obfuscation of the very basis of the Manipur protests, since the political is very much a personal concern here like ‘love’. The relative autonomy of the personal in everyday practice is what the Manipur protesters are fighting for. It is not readily available as a right, the reason why it is to be contingently evoked in protests. The private is in abeyance here, not the personal. By thwarting the historical association of the personal with the private, this unique form of dissent creates a new public, a public which has to strenuously but compulsively imagine itself through the allegory of the body, the suffering body possibly. Private pleasure is quite an actual possibility, but for the protesting subject there doesn’t seem to be any other equally effective public rhetoric beyond the ‘personal’, manifestations of which are always potent with ‘extreme’ and ‘shocking’ forms.

What the supporters of Irom, infuriated by The Telegraph report, possibly meant by the mainstream media’s ploy to “shift focus away from the struggle” was not the shifting focus from the public to the private. They were possibly infuriated by the way the report tried to equate the personal exclusively with the private and thus take the personal away from the struggle. By pushing us to rethink yet another border, Manipur stands as a unique borderland in the world, at least in India. Unlike the Pakistan, Bangladesh and China borders in the country, this border with Myanmar is increasingly becoming difficult to understand without considering the other border, the border within, the border between India and its north east.

La manipulación informativa y la desinformación: La anomia de los receptores y el fomento de víctimas propiciatorias

by Luis Miguel Romero Rodríguez