Selected DNVA Publications
On this page we provide a selection of publications, PhD theses and research seminars concerning DNVA research. We will continue to add to this list the research that other colleagues have published. Pre-publication versions of most of our own publications can be found on our respective academia.edu sites.
Bednarek, M. (2016). Voices and values in the news: News media talk, news values and attribution. Discourse, Context & Media, 11: 27-37.
Bednarek, M. (2016). Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared via social media. Corpora, 11(2): 227-257. Click here for Open Access.
Bednarek, M. and Caple, H. (2012a). News Discourse. London/New York: Continuum.
Bednarek, M. and Caple, H. (2012b). ‘‘Value Added”: Language, image and news value. Discourse, Context & Media, 1, Special Issue on Journalistic Stance, 1: 103-113.
Bednarek, M. and Caple, H. (2014). Why do news values matter? Towards a new methodological framework for analyzing news discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond. Discourse & Society, 25(2): 135-158.
Bednarek, M. and Caple, H. (2017). The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bednarek, M., Caple, H. and Huan, C. (2021). Computer-based analysis of news values: A case study on national day reporting. Journalism Studies, 22(6): 702-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1807393
Caple, H. (2013). Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Caple, H. (2018). News values and newsworthiness. In H. Ornebring (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford: OUP.
Caple, H. and Bednarek, M. (2013). Delving into the discourse: Approaches to news values in Journalism Studies and beyond. Working Paper. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, The University of Oxford.
Caple, H. and Bednarek, M. (2016). Rethinking news values: what a discursive approach can tell us about the construction of news discourse and news photography. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 17(4): 435-455.
Caple, H., Huan C. and Bednarek, M. (2020). Multimodal News Analysis Across Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dahl, T. and Fløttum, K. (2014). Converging or diverging messages? Verbal and visual representations of climate change in two British newspapers reporting on the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report. Encompassing the Multimodality of Knowledge: 5th International Conference in the 360° Conference Series, Aarhus University, Denmark, 8-10 May 2014.
Dahl, T. and Fløttum, K. (2017). Visual-verbal harmony or dissonace? A news values analysis of multimodal news text on climage change. Discourse, Context & Media 20: 124-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.09.003
Falkenhayner, N. (2019). The News Values of CCTV Narrations. In Media, Surveillance and Affect: Narrating Feeling-States. London: Routledge.
Fest, J. (2015). Where to find news worthiness – A systemic‐functional approach to identifying news values. 42nd International Systemic Functional Congress, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 27-31 July 2015.
Fruttaldo, A. and Venuti, M. (2017). A cross-cultural discursive approach to news values in the press in the US, the UK and Italy: The case of the Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage. ESP Across Cultures, 14: 81-97. Full article available for download.
Fuster-Márquez, M. and Gregori-Signes, C. (2019). La construcción discursiva del turismo en la prensa española (verano de 2017) [The Discursive construction of tourism in the Spanish press (Summer 2017)]. Discurso & Sociedad, 13(2): 195-224.
He, J. and Caple, H. (2020). Why the fruit picker smiles in an anti-corruption story: Analyzing evaluative clash ad news value construction in online news discourse in China. Discourse, Context & Media, 35: 1-11.
He, J. (2021). “Why attacking the Bureau of Industry and Commerce?”: News value flow to news comments on Chinese social media. Media, Culture & Society, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443721994433
Huan, C. (2015). Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News. PhD Thesis, Macquarie University, Australia.
Huan, C. (2016). Leaders or readers, whom to please? News values in the transition of the Chinese press. Discourse, Context & Media, 13: 114–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2016.05.005
Lorenzo-Dus, N. and Smith, P. (2018). The visual construction of political crises: A news values approach. In M. Patrona (Ed.) Crisis and the Media. Narratives of Crisis across Cultural Settings and Media Genres (pp.151-176). DAPSC, 76. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Makki, M. (2014). Why is this “event” chosen and not that one? Analysing the register of Iranian print journalism and its notion of “newsworthiness”. Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association 2014 conference (ASFLA 2014), University of New South Wales, Australia, 30 September-2 October 2014.
Makki, M. (2016). The Language of Iranian News Journalism: News Values, Genres, and Reporting Styles. PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Makki, M. (2019). Discursive news values analysis of Iranian crime news reports: Perspectives from the culture. Discourse & Communication, 13(4): 437-460.
Makki, M. (2020). The role of ‘culture’ in the construction of news values: a discourse analysis of Iranian hard news reports. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 15(3): 308-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1786573.
Maruenda-Bataller, S. (2021). The role of news values in the discursive construction of the female victims in media outlets: A comparative study. In: M. Fuster-Márquez, J. Santaemilia, C. Gregori-Signes & P. Rodríguez-Abruñeiras (Eds.), Exporing Discourse and Ideology though Corpora (pp. 141-165). Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-3969-8. DOI: 10.3726/b17868.
Molek-Kozakowska, K. (2017). Communicating environmental science beyond academia: Stylistic patterns of newsworthiness in popular science journalism. Discourse & Communication, 11(1): 69–88.
Molek-Kozakowska, K. (2018). Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid. Discourse, Context & Media, 21: 73–81.
Potts, A., Bednarek, M. and Caple, H. (2015). How can computer-based methods help researchers to investigate news values in large datasets? A corpus linguistic study of the construction of newsworthiness in the reporting on Hurricane Katrina. Discourse & Communication, 9(2): 149-172.
Riggs, A. (2021). How online news headlines and accompanying images‘translate’ a violent event: a cross-cultural case study. Language and Intercultural Communication, 21(3): 352-365. DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2020.1870486
Venuti, M. (2017). News values and the discursive representation of the US same-sex ruling in the US, UK and Italian press. Lavender Languages & Linguistics 24, University of Nottingham, UK, 28-30 April 2017.
Venuti, M. and Fruttaldo, A. (2019). Contrasting news values in newspaper articles and social media: A discursive approach to the US Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage. In: B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Ed.), Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages. Second Language Learning and Teaching (pp 147-161). Cham: Springer.
Wu, G. and Pan, C. (2022). Audience engagement with news on Chinese social media: A discourse analysis of the People’s Daily official account on WeChat. Discourse & Communication, 16(1): 129–145.
Yu, H. and Liu, S. (2023): The Pandemic in Our Country, the Pandemic in Their Countries: News Values and Media Representation of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journalism Studies, 24(10): 1257-1276. DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2206925
Zeng, W. and Li, D. (2023). Exploring an interdisciplinary interface between journalistic translation and journalism studies: insights from discursive news values analysis. Perspectives, DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2023.2215935
Zhang, L. and Caple, H. (2021). The newsworthiness of Li Na – A critical comparative analysis of Chinese and international news media. Language and Communication, 77: 70-80.