News journalism is society studying itself. This is a group for everyone from newsbeat ethnographers, analysts of news discourse, scholars studying the news and journalism industry, those interested in the relationships among mass publicity and society, and more.
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Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Memes on the agenda: a discourse analysis of media appropriations of humor in the group
The social study of journalism on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThis paper presents a study on the penetration of public discussion political memes in the hegemonic
media based on the repercussion of memes about the arrest of former Brazilian President Lula on
the websites El País (Brazilian Edition) and Estadão. The research aims to analyze the presence of
memes in the media agenda and the appropriations o…[Read more] -
Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Voices in War Times: Tracing the Roots of Lusophone Literary Journalism in the group
The social study of journalism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis essay takes a look at the works of four early literary journalists— Portuguese reporters Hermano Neves and Mário Neves, and Brazilian writers Visconde de Taunay and Euclides da Cunha—to trace the foundations of lusophone literary journalism, that is, reportage written primarily in the Portuguese language. Among the findings are that war repo…[Read more]
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Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Glimpses of a New York Emerging from Silence: Joseph Mitchell’s Journalistic Memorial Essay in the group
The social study of journalism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis paper discusses ‘Street Life’, ‘Days in the Branch’ and ‘A Place of Pasts’, excerpts fragments from The New Yorker reporter Joseph Mitchell’s unfinished memoir book he started writing during his famous period of silence from 1964 to 1994. Within the scope of Mitchell’s writings, this group of texts may be considered as part of his fourth peri…[Read more]
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Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Voices from the East: Svetlana Alexievich’s and Hanna Krall’s Literary Journalisms in the group
The social study of journalism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoIn literary journalism, just like in fiction, reality is organized in ways that reflect the author’s worldviews. Their choices in style and structure often result in unique ways for the reader to virtually experience the events told in reportages. Based on a close reading of excerpts from three books – one by the Polish writer Hanna Krall and t…[Read more]
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Ryan Schram created the group
The social study of journalism on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago