School of Culture and Communication - Research Publications

Permanent URI for this collection

http://hdl.handle.net/11343/395

Filters

2006 - 2007 5
3 1
Reset filters

Settings
Statistics
Citations
Author: COTTLE, SIMON × End date: 2008 × Start date: 2006 × Type: Journal Article ×

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 5 of 5
  • Item
    Thumbnail Image
    Australian TV news revisited: news ecology and communicative frames
    Cottle, S ; Rai, M (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2007-02)
  • Item
    Thumbnail Image
    Between display and deliberation: analyzing TV news as communicative architecture
    Cottle, S ; Rai, M (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2006-03)
    Television journalism serves to display and deliberate consent and conflict in the contemporary world and it does so through a distinctive ‘communicative architecture’ structured in terms of a repertoire of ‘communicative frames’. This proves consequential for the public expression and engagement of views and voices, issues and identities, and exhibits a complexity that has so far remained unexplored and under-theorized. This article outlines our conceptualization of ‘communicative frames’ and demonstrates its relevance in a systematic, comparative international analysis of terrestrial and satellite, public service and commercial television news produced and/or circulated in six different countries: the USA, UK, Australia, India, Singapore and South Africa. Recent developments in social theory, political theory and journalism studies all underpin our approach to how these frames contribute to meaningful public deliberation and understanding and, potentially, to processes of mediatized ‘democratic deepening’. This article builds on these contemporary theoretical trajectories and develops a new approach for the empirical exploration and re-theorization of the fast-developing international ecology of TV journalism.
  • Item
    Thumbnail Image
    Mediatized rituals: beyond manufacturing consent
    Cottle, S (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2006-05)
    The study of mediatized rituals challenges entrenched theoretical views about media power, its locations and determinations and the role of media in processes of manufacturing consent. Contrary to both Durkheimian and neo-Marxian traditions (historically the dominant frameworks in the field of ritual study), some mediatized rituals appear to open up productive spaces for social reflexivity and critique, and can be politically disruptive or even transformative in their reverberations within civil and wider societies. This article identifies and critically discusses six subclasses of mediatized ritual and produces an overarching schema of use in their empirical analysis and comparative theorization. It argues against the deep theoretical suspicions within current academic media discourse toward ritual, and illustrates how mediatized rituals are in fact complexly variegated, exceptional and performative phenomena that periodically summon solidarities and moral ideas of the ‘social good’ and variously serve to exert agency within late modern societies.
  • Item
    No Preview Available
    Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: “Everyone was dying for footage
    Cottle, S ; Nolan, D (Informa UK Limited, 2007-01-01)
  • Item
    No Preview Available
    Global mediations: On the changing ecology of satellite television news
    Rai, M ; Cottle, S (SAGE Publications, 2007-12-01)
    The last few years have witnessed an explosion in the number of 24/7 satellite news channels around the globe. Some theorists have heralded the arrival of 24/7 news delivery systems and channels as definitive of processes of globalization and foundational in the creation of a ‘global public sphere’. Others view them as simply the latest expansion of Western-led corporate interests and vehicles of cultural imperialism, propagating news flows from the West to the rest. This article contributes up-to-date empirical findings and arguments that variously support and problematize aspects of both these overarching theoretical positions and debates and does so by systematically mapping for the first time all 24/7 news channels broadcast in the world today. Our findings reveal a field characterized by complex stratifications, formations and flows that prompt the need for refined conceptualization and theorization.