This book exploresthe role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and
televisionnews. The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image …

Change requires processes of both interruption and continuity in order to advance newer
modes of doing. Breaks from practices of the past enable switching over to practices of the …

With the explosion of reality television onto screens and schedules worldwide, this timely
and original book explores makeover tv, the ubiquitous reality format that has received little …

Between February 2002 and April 2006, the Sydney Morning Herald online [www. smh. com.
au], an influential Australian newspaper which went online in 1995, showed a remarkable …

In studying media content and effects, scholars sometimes refer to amplifications of deviance
and constructions of moral panics. The present article examines how “heroin chic,” a 1990s …

In a short space of time, online newspapers have emerged to play an important role in the
institutional construction of 'news' and the mass mediation of information. The home pages …

This book illustrates that mediated popular culture and science-based knowledge systems,
entangled and compromised as both have become, are still a robust crucible for system …

How We Use Stories and Why That Matters guides the reader through the tangled
undergrowth of communication and cultural expression towards a new understanding of the …

Thumbnail images depicting the face of a social actor were the most common type of image
used in hard-news stories on the home page of the Sydney Morning Herald online (smh …

The term 'thinspiration'is used within the pro-anorexia (pro-ana) community to classify
images of slenderness that represent aspects of anorexic experience and/or idealise …