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Book SynopsisDavid Machin is Professor of Media and Communication at Örebro University, Sweden. He writes and researches mainly on critical discourse analysis and multimodality and has published ten books across these areas. His recent books include How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Approach (2012) and Analysing Popular Music (2010). He is the co-editor of two international peer reviewed journals, Social Semiotics and Journal of Language and Politics, and is associate editor of the online community SemiotiX. Lydia Polzer is a freelance magazine designer, journalist and photojournalist. She also presents lectures on magazine design, layout and production for journalism post- and undergraduates at Brunel University and has lectured at City University in the past. She's a winner of the UNESCO and The Independent World Press Freedom Award (2007) and winner of the public choice Deeper Perspective (UK) category of the International Photography Awards (2007). She regularly attends design
Trade Review"An essential guide for students interested in today's challenging visual media landscape. This superb book presents the necessary tools to learn about the stages of production and packaging in visual media." - Shahira Fahmy, School of Journalism, University of Arizona, USA "A concise introduction to meanings made within all visual elements used to tell news and stories in today's converging media environment." - Louise Grayson, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Photojournalism: Documenting and Symbolising Events 2. Magazine Design: Ideas and Attitudes Through Visual Elements 3. Changing Newspaper Designs for New Kinds of Markets 4. Design and the Digital Media Environment 5. Staging the News for Television Conclusion.