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looking into my study..i have to explore a number of text. Anaylsing them i have to look at them from a denotation and conatation level. Newspaper are normally the most interesting to look at, at first articles seem to look very informative and factual, but the language used is very clever and usually conates other offensive things.
pictures used in newspaper articles usually have many conotations, for example you only see white people mourning for people dying in terrorist attacks.
the signifance of these conatations is the newspaper or news company do not openly want to be bias or be shown as islamaphobic. Therefor they present messages in a subtle way, through the conatation of language and pictures.
its very common that when newspaper want to represnt or show muslim they show them wearing only tradition dress e.g women wearing burka or show men with breads and guns. this send out a non-verbal message that all muslims are like this, even though they dont say that....the western audience create their image of muslim people from this.
in a typical news report sound and language of coverage of a terrorist attack is very important. the sound is normally of men shoutin, we see that talkin very aburpt and in anger, show muslim men as very brutal and we hear shouting and the sound of the attack and how bad it was. language makes a MASSIVE difference in both newspaper and a news report....word like "extrememist" have contations that create a sense of fear and a sterotype image.
the main image shown when it comes 2 muslim being represnted are:
osama bin laden
men with beards living in caves
women in burka
twin tower falling
attack on 7/7
but is it fair that these are the typical images that respresent islam...what about mecca and the holy book the quran ...children going to mosque school...why does the western media never show islam, but only show islamic terrorist!!!
Editing in news report are done in a particular way so that they show what they want and potray the point they want....e.g they may show children being happy about the attacks who are muslim but do not show the mosque praying for those who have died, they manipulate the audience in thinking in the way they want them 2 think, by showing quick powerful edited sequences.
pictures used in newspaper articles usually have many conotations, for example you only see white people mourning for people dying in terrorist attacks.
the signifance of these conatations is the newspaper or news company do not openly want to be bias or be shown as islamaphobic. Therefor they present messages in a subtle way, through the conatation of language and pictures.
its very common that when newspaper want to represnt or show muslim they show them wearing only tradition dress e.g women wearing burka or show men with breads and guns. this send out a non-verbal message that all muslims are like this, even though they dont say that....the western audience create their image of muslim people from this.
in a typical news report sound and language of coverage of a terrorist attack is very important. the sound is normally of men shoutin, we see that talkin very aburpt and in anger, show muslim men as very brutal and we hear shouting and the sound of the attack and how bad it was. language makes a MASSIVE difference in both newspaper and a news report....word like "extrememist" have contations that create a sense of fear and a sterotype image.
the main image shown when it comes 2 muslim being represnted are:
osama bin laden
men with beards living in caves
women in burka
twin tower falling
attack on 7/7
but is it fair that these are the typical images that respresent islam...what about mecca and the holy book the quran ...children going to mosque school...why does the western media never show islam, but only show islamic terrorist!!!
Editing in news report are done in a particular way so that they show what they want and potray the point they want....e.g they may show children being happy about the attacks who are muslim but do not show the mosque praying for those who have died, they manipulate the audience in thinking in the way they want them 2 think, by showing quick powerful edited sequences.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1640204,00.html
here is a gurdian artcle about cutting down extremeism !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1639511,00.html
again newspaper article about extremism!
posted by Mariam Raja @ 12:00 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:25 AM,
Macguffin said…
Now you need to draw on specific examples - not just ones drawn from memory - and carry out a close ttextual analysis of them.
List some of the specific texts you will analyse here (include when they were published/broadcast).
You should also be able to find a very intersting article in 'The Guardian' that compares the different language used when describing conflict, eg British soldiers are called 'our boys' and Iraqis are 'terrorists' etc.
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