Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach

This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets.

This book is richly illustrated and provides a careful account of the tools available, effectively demonstrating how they can be applied, as well as how Caple has developed them to apply more closely to news images. this is a worthwhile and timely contribution to the field of news discourse, which Caple has rightly demonstrated as, for all intents and purposes, multimodal. (Helan A. Sissons, Communication Research and Practice, Vol. 3 (1), 2017)

"[Caple's] knowledge base and experience make for some interesting research." - CHOICE

"By presenting a systematic analysis of press photographs and providing a set of useful tools for their interpretation, Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach successfully redresses the imbalance between words and images in news discourse studies, and its insightful account of text image relations, in particular, constitutes a timely and valuable contribution to the area of multimodal discourse analysis." - Discourse & Communication

Autorentext

Helen Caple is a Lecturer in Media, Communications and Journalism at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Her primary research interests centre on press photography and text-image relations. She is the co-author of News Discourse (with Monika Bednarek) and has also worked as a press photographer in the UK.

Inhalt

1. Introducing the Multisemiotic News Story 2. News Values and the Multisemiotic News Story 3. The Multiple Functionality of News Images 4. Composition and Aesthetic Value in Press Photography 5. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 1: Image as Nucleus 6. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 2: Image as Satellite 7. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 3: Sequences of Images 8. Evolving Practices