Analysis of Media Texts

Content Analysis

Discourse Analysis

Genre Theory

Intertextuality

Narratology

Rhetorical Analysis

Semiotics

Ideological Analysis

 

Content Analysis

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Content Analysis of Children's Commercials': Philippe Cattin & Subhash C Jain (A Review)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Content Analysis of Gender Differences in Children's Advertising': Lois J Smith (A Review)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Effect of Television Day Part on Gender Portrayals in Television Commercials:
    A Content Analysis': R Stephen Craig (A Review)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Globe and Males: An Analysis of Gender Issues in Canada's National Newspaper':
    Adam Jones

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Identifying Themes via Concept Mapping: A New Method of Content Analysis':
     M Mark Miller and Bonnie P Riechert

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Killing and Dying in the Newspapers - A Content Analysis: Joohoan Kim

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Man Who Counts the Killings' (a profile of George Gerbner) (Atlantic Monthly):
    Scott Stossel

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Product-Related Programming and Children's TV - A Content Analysis':
     B Carol Eaton & Joseph R Dominick (A Review)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Viewing Age: The Age Distribution of Television Characters Across the Viewer Lifespan':
     Jake Harwood

 


Discourse Analysis

 

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Texts: Brett Dellinger

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Eye Of The Camera: An Exploration of Organizational Life as Portrayed on Television':
     Michčle A Bowring

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'From Text Grammar to Critical Discourse Analysis': Teun A van Dijk

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Structural Constraint of "Concision" as it is Used in the Discourse Style of
     American Commercial Broadcasting': Brett Dellinger

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Towards A Discourse Analysis Of User Clickstreams On The Web':
     Jarrod E Jasper, R Darin Ellis & Shaheryar Wajahath 

 


 

Genre Theory

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Cookie-Cutter Or Connoisseur? Genre Theory and John Ford's Stagecoach':
     Katherine Lawrie

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Genre and Film: Carol Laseur

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Genre, Auteurism, and Spielberg': Stephen Rowley

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Genre Theory': Peter Knapp (in literacy education)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Genre Theory as a Tool for Analyzing Network-Mediated Interaction:
     The Case of the Collective Limericks': Thomas Erickson

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) An Introduction to Genre Theory: Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Making Sense of Genre': Deborah Knight

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Reading "All About" Computerization:
     How Genre Conventions Shape Non-Fiction Social Analysis': Rob Kling

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Technology's Body: Cronenberg, Genre, and the Canadian Ethos': Bart Testa

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Why the Future of the Internet has More to Do with Genre Blending than Gender Bending':
    Thomas Erickson

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Writing Classes, Writing Genres, and Writing Textbooks ':
    Doug Brent (Textual Studies in Canada)

 


Intertextuality

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Allusions: Tim Love

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Intertextuality: Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Intertextuality (The Electronic Labyrinth)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Intertextuality in Advertisements for Silk Cut Cigarettes': Catherine R Langan

 


Narratology

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Narrative Emergence of Identity': Mark R Gover

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Narrative Partitioning: The Ins and Outs of Identity Construction': Kevin Murray

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Vladimir Propp: An Introduction': Jerry Everard

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Typology of Divergence in Narrative Interpretation': Sonia Livingstone

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'What Makes Viewers Diverge When Interpreting Narrative?': Sonia Livingstone

 


Rhetorical Analysis

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Argumentation on the Web: Challenging Traditional Notions of Communication': Tom Formaro

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Author's Voice and the Reader's Role: An Analysis of Rhetorical Issues in How-to Texts':
    Carl S Chatfield

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language': Edward F McQuarrie & David Glen Mick

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices': Robert Harris

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'On Resonance: A Critical Pluralistic Inquiry into Advertising Rhetoric':
     Edward F. McQuarrie & David Glen Mick

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Rhetoric in the Age of the World-Wide Web': Dianne L Juby

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Web Design: Using Rhetorical Figures': Claire Dormann

 


Semiotics

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Roland Barthes: 'The Photographic Message'

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Roland Barthes: 'Rhetoric of the Image'

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Roland Barthes's Mythologies: Tony McNeil

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Can Pictures Lie?': Winfried Nöth

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Codes, Chronotypes and Everyday Objects' (The Semiotics of T-Shirts):
    P K Manning & Betsy Cullum-Swan

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Cognition and Semiotics: Carlos Colón

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Communication': Thomas Sebeok

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Communication Science vs. Semiotics': Carlos Colón

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Constrained Constructivism: Locating Scientific Enquiry in the Theatre of Representation':
     Katherine Hayles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Critical Semiotics': Scott Simpkins

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Critiques of Semiotics: Scott Simpkins

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Disneyworld Company': Jean Baudrillard

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Umberto Eco: Four Lectures

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Elements of Semiology: Roland Barthes 

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Electronic Signs': Jay David Bolter

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Eye of the Camera: An Exploration of Organizational Life as Portrayed on Television':
    Michčle A Bowring

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'From Codpieces to Spoonerisms: Semiolinguistic Approaches to Communication in Culture':
    Alan C Harris

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'From Internet to Gutenberg': Umberto Eco

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Grammar of Narrativity: Algirdas Julien Greimas': Wanda Rulewicz

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Guide to Visual Semiotics': Steven Skaggs

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Intertextuality in Advertisements for Silk Cut Cigarettes': Catherine R Langan

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Introduction to Semiotics: Mick Underwood

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Claude Levi-Strauss: The Structural Study of Myth': Mary Klages

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Media and Semiotics: Göran Sonesson

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Myth Today': Roland Barthes (from Mythologies)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Le Parfum de Washing-Up: A Semiotic Analysis of Two Ads for Persil Liquid':
    Ruth McKeown

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Pictorial Semiotics': Göran Sonesson

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) The Politics of Meaning: Tom O'Regan (Continuum)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Power and the Construction of Gendered Spaces': Jean Umiker-Sebeok
    (International Review of Sociology)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Propp's Morphology: Syntagmatic Analysis'

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Saussure and the Sign': D Arnason

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Semiotic Analysis of a Cosmetics Ad and its Interpretation by Readers': Nadin Reschke

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Semiotic Analysis of Advertisements: Notes on Varda Langholz Leymore's Hidden Myth

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Semiotic Analysis of Advertisements: A Framework

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Semiotic Analysis of a Newspaper Story': Helen Gambles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Semiotic Analysis of Three Beer Advertisements': Michael Steven

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Semiotic Analysis of Wallis Clothes Ads': Sarah Richards

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Semiotic Analysis of Magazine Ads for Men's Fragrances': Alexander Clare

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'A Semiotic Analysis of Diesel Print Ads': Merris Griffiths

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Semiotic Analysis of Visual Images: Ross Woodrow

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Semiotics and Advertisements: Tom Streeter

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Semiotics for Beginners: Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Semiotics in Cyberspace': Carlos Colón

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Semiotics of Music': Special Issue of Applied Semiotics/Semiotique Appliquee

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Seventy-six Definitions of the Sign': C S Peirce

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Suture': Kim Richards

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Text, Talk, and Inquiry: Schooling as Semiotic Apprenticeship': Gordon Wells

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'To What Extent is Hallidayan 'Social Semiotic Theory' Compatible with
    Saussure's Programme for Semiology?': Iris Guske

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Visual Semiotics (Notes)

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Was the Last Turn The Right Turn? The Semiotic Turn and AJ Greimas':
    Timothy Lenoir (Configurations)

 


Ideological Analysis

Essays and Articles

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Althusser: Meic Llewellyn

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Culture Industry Reconsidered': Theodor Adorno 

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Democracy and the Media': Tom Bivins

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation':
    Douglas Kellner

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Antonio Gramsci': Monica Stillo

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Ideological Analysis of The X-Files': Jaspal Marwah

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Ideology: A Brief Guide': John Lye

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Interactive Mass Media and Political Participation': J Michael Jaffe

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) Marxist Approaches to the Mass Media: Daniel Chandler

Diamond.gif (974 bytes) 'Moral Panics': Matthew Wood

Diamond.gif (974 bytes)Necessary Illusions: Noam Chomsky

 

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