Discourses of Disorder : : Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media / / Christopher Hart, Darren Kelsey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Hart, Christopher,; Kelsey, Darren,
• MitwirkendeR: Davies, Matt,; Elnakkouzi, Rania,; Hart, Christopher,; Kelsey, Darren,; Kotzur, Gerrit,; Mayr, Andrea,; Nophakhun, Rotsukhon,; Ostermeyer, Serjoscha,; Pérez-Arredondo, Carolina,; Rantsudu, Boitshwarelo,; Rudanko, Juhani,; Sittler, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 12 B/W tables 25 B/W halftones

Analyses media representations of riots, strikes and protests Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder. A range of case studies are presented which cut across time, communicative modality and genre, and geo-political context.10 chapters each addressing representations of riots, strikes and protests in a different national, historical and political contextIncludes detailed case studies cutting across time, communicative mode and genre, and geo-political contextAnalysis extends beyond linguistic representation to include imagery in the form of photographs, videos and political cartoonsincludes case studies of the 1821 Baltimore riots, the 2011 England riots, the Chilean student movement, protests against the Stuttgart 21 development and strike action in Botsawana

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Language -- 1 Representations of the Baltimore Riots of July 1812: Political Spin in the Early American Republic -- 2 Moral Storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, Metaphor and Ideology -- 3 Why Do They Protest?: The Discursive Construction of ‘Motive’ in Relation to the Chilean Student Movement in the National Alternative Press (2011–13) -- 4 Crying Children and Bleeding Pensioners against Rambo’s Troop: Perspectivisation in German Newspaper Reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests -- 5 Taking a Stance through the Voice of ‘Others’: Attribution in News Coverage of a Public Sector Workers’ Strike in Two Botswana Newspapers -- 6 Media ‘Militant’ Tendencies: How Strike Action in the News Press Is Discursively Constructed as Inherently Violent -- Part II Multimodality -- 7 Metaphor and the (1984–5) Miners’ Strike: A Multimodal Analysis -- 8 Strategic Manoeuvring in Arab Spring Political Cartoons -- 9 Social Media Activism by Favela Youth in Rio de Janeiro -- 10 Rioting and Disorderly Behaviour as Political Media Practice: Body Postures on the Streets of L.A. during the Riots of 1992 -- Index