12-06-2011, 09:42 PM
X-posted from BRF:
Media is a social phenomenon and is part of the communications branch. We need to understand how to crititique it from a sociology point of view and then from an Indian interests point of view for the language of criticism is developed from Western view point.
For starters read the works of a Ducth scientist Van Dijk on Newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teun_A._van_Dijk
Wiki on Critical Discourse Analysis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_di...e_analysis
Primer on CDA:
Primer on CDA
and
Critical Science
The above is on the science of criticism.
Once folks go thruogh these they can better understand each other and the other!
Media is a social phenomenon and is part of the communications branch. We need to understand how to crititique it from a sociology point of view and then from an Indian interests point of view for the language of criticism is developed from Western view point.
For starters read the works of a Ducth scientist Van Dijk on Newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teun_A._van_Dijk
Quote:News as Discourse. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988.
News Analysis. Case studies of international and national news in the press. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988
Wiki on Critical Discourse Analysis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_di...e_analysis
Primer on CDA:
Primer on CDA
and
Critical Science
The above is on the science of criticism.
Once folks go thruogh these they can better understand each other and the other!