Dialogue and dissemination in news media interviews

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7477141
AutoresGeoffrey Craig (0000-0002-8888-1820, University of Otago, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas75-90
Fecha de publicación2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884909349582
OpenAlexW2047471171
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas33

This article analyses the nature of the dialogue of broadcast news media interviews and their public dissemination and argues that political interviews are fundamentally contestable and indeterminate encounters. In contrast to theoretical and journalistic accounts that see conflict and disagreement in news media interviews as problems that need to be minimized and overcome, this article states that the dialogical account of language employed in the work of Bakhtin and Vološinov and agonistic political theory more accurately capture the communicative dynamics of news media interviews. It follows that the function of journalistic interviewers should be cast less in terms of producing consensus and mutual understanding and more in terms of keeping the political open

Dialogical self · Function (biology · Media studies · News media · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Law · Social Psychology