Media In India/elsewhere -3

[ramana]

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

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!