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Donald Matheson
Other affiliations: Cardiff University, University of Otago, University of Strathclyde
Bio: Donald Matheson is an academic researcher from University of Canterbury. The author has contributed to research in topics: Journalism & News media. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 38 publications receiving 2027 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald Matheson include Cardiff University & University of Otago.
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TL;DR: Dollimore as discussed by the authors argues that critical theorists should strive to understand the contradictions within our lives and our literature and explore the daemonic power of the subjects that offend our sense of tradition.
Abstract: but the threat they bring to artistic culture. From his opening mockery of the literary establishment’s tendency to theorize the world in terms of desire or gender to his disapproval of those who venerate art while denying its validity in the same breath, Jonathan Dollimore has created an easily understood, albeit at times too theoretical, synthesis of the literary and the experiential in Sex, Literature and Censorship. His arguments on critical theory do not necessarily reject the concept of theory; rather, he argues that critical theorists should strive to understand the contradictions within our lives and our literature and explore the daemonic power of the subjects that offend our sense of tradition.
1,318 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that the rearticulation in this institutional product of the relation between journalists and users, of the claim to authority made in the news text and of the newstext as product, provides historians of both journalism and new media with a case study of the adaptation of journalism to new contexts.
Abstract: Journalism has been slow to develop distinctive forms in response to the new contexts provided by the internet. One rapidly developing form, unique to the world wide web, is the weblog. This article reviews the claims made by proponents of the form and explores, through the case study of a weblog produced by the British Guardian newspaper, epistemological differences to the dominant Anglo-American news form. The article argues that the rearticulation in this institutional product of the relation between journalists and users, of the claim to authority made in the news text and of the news text as product, provides historians of both journalism and new media with a case study of the adaptation of journalism to new contexts.
354 citations
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The power to talk: conversation analysis of broadcast interviews Racism as social cognition in sports commentary Connecting with New Media: Weblogs and other interactive media Glossary of key terms.
Abstract: Introduction: The big ideas about language, society and the media News and the social life of words Advertising Discourse: Selling between the lines The performance of identity in consumer magazines The stories they tell us: Studying television as narrative,br> Making sense of images: the visual meanings of reality television The power to talk: conversation analysis of broadcast interviews Racism as social cognition in sports commentary Connecting with New Media: Weblogs and other interactive media Glossary of key terms
149 citations
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12 Oct 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the first Internet war was described as a "New Wars, New Reporting" and the "First Internet War" was described by the Citizen Journalist at War (CJW).
Abstract: 1 New Wars, New Reporting 1 2 The 'First Internet War' 28 3 Conflicted Realities 58 4 The Citizen Journalist at War 92 5 Visual Truths: Images in Wartime 130 6 Making Connections: The Politics of Mediation 166 References 188 Index 206
60 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines some changes in news style in British newspapers between about 1880 and 1930 and proposes that they provide evidence of the emergence of a coherent and self-sufficient discourse of the news, arguing that changes in the ways in which the news has represented the world are as important as technological or economic changes to the development of the 20th-century news form.
Abstract: This article examines some changes in news style in British newspapers between about 1880 and 1930 and proposes that they provide evidence of the emergence of a coherent and self-sufficient discourse of the news. It argues that changes in the ways in which the news has represented the world are as important as technological or economic changes to the development of the 20th-century news form, and that it is therefore important to look closely at issues of language. It suggests that three main developments in news texts occurred: the wide range of voices and styles of the Victorian press became subsumed under a single universal news voice; the status of the news text changed from being a collection of raw information to being a form of knowledge in itself; and the news developed independence from the conventions of public discourse.
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16 May 2003TL;DR: Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations, Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations, Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines. They get themselves learned and learned well, so that they get played long and hard by a great many people. This is how they and their designers survive and perpetuate themselves. If a game cannot be learned and even mastered at a certain level, it won't get played by enough people, and the company that makes it will go broke. Good learning in games is a capitalist-driven Darwinian process of selection of the fittest. Of course, game designers could have solved their learning problems by making games shorter and easier, by dumbing them down, so to speak. But most gamers don't want short and easy games. Thus, designers face and largely solve an intriguing educational dilemma, one also faced by schools and workplaces: how to get people, often young people, to learn and master something that is long and challenging--and enjoy it, to boot.
7,211 citations
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18 Aug 2002
TL;DR: Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method as discussed by the authors is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research, which brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries.
Abstract: Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order to establish a dialogue between different forms of discourse analysis often kept apart by disciplinary boundaries. The book introduces the three approaches in a clear and easily comprehensible manner, explaining the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach as well as the methodological guidelines and tools they provide for empirical discourse analysis. The authors also demonstrate the possibilities for combining different discourse analytical and non-discourse analytical approaches in empirical study. Finally, they contextualize discourse analysis within the social constructionist debate about critical social research, rejecting the view that a critical stance is incompatible with social constructionist premises and arguing that critique must be an inherent part of social research.
3,598 citations
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss ways of feeling engagement and graduation: alignment, solidarity and the construed reader, taking a stance enacting appraisal, text analysis, and attitude.
Abstract: List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References Index
2,328 citations
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04 Dec 2009TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach to questions of meaning is proposed, which is based on multimodal analysis and design and production of signs and text messages, with a focus on the future.
Abstract: 1. Multimodality: A New Approach to Questions of Meaning 2. Signs 3. Modes and Materiality 4. Texts and Messages 5. Media, Messages, Texts 6. Design and Production 7. Doing Multimodal Analysis 8. Thinking and Looking Ahead
1,951 citations