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</SPAN>Media, Policy and Interaction.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#000000 size=3>William Housley and Richard Fitzgerald. (eds)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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face="Times New Roman">Increasingly, the media represents and is represented as
a site not only for reporting news but also breaking government initiatives and
policy to the wider voting public. Furthermore, the media is seen to be a symbol
of ‘accountability’ where forms of democratic checks and balances are performed
and the public voice presented through mediated public access formats. Recent
media debates concerning policy associated with BSE, foot and mouth, devolution,
military action, health, education, terrorism and so forth have been articulated
within the ever-expanding space of influence that is occupied by media
institutions, programmes and practices. An understanding of the fine grained
accomplishment of these activities through an examination of the language and
discourse employed within various media formats provides avenues and insights
into the ‘practical deconstruction’ of the media in terms of practical action,
but also inform future avenues of applied language
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">The
proposed collection will focus on the interactional machinery of policy debate
within media settings. Situated within the field of discourse oriented
approaches to media and government the collection intends to explore the
interface between government, media and the public highlighting the increasing
importance placed on media channelled ‘public opinion’ as part of a democratic
process. Broadly arguing that the media is increasingly finding itself taking on
the role of gathering public opinion on policy matters the theme is the actual
sites of interaction examining in detail the language and discourse deployed by
various parties in the process of debate and in relation to various social
collectivities (i.e. culture, the public, the voters and wider society). The
collection is aiming to include a variety of discourse analytic methods
including CA/MCA, Discourse Analysis and interactionism to provide a series of
discussions around the social organisation of policy debate in media sites such
as: news interviews, public access broadcasts, broadcast debates, panel
discussions, newspapers, news broadcasts, blogs, official and unofficial news
sites etc. Consequently, the collection will serve to illustrate and demonstrate
how these settings are used to organise and present activities associated with
the dissemination of information, public scrutiny and accountability within
democratic social forms. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000>We are
in contact with possible publishers, and at this stage invite expressions of
interest in the form of a 500 word abstract with key words and references<SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000><o:p><SPAN
class=554504304-21022006>Deadline for Expressions of interest and abstracts.
<STRONG>June 1, 2006</STRONG></SPAN></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000>Please
send<SPAN class=554504304-21022006> </SPAN>correspondence and abstracts in the
first instance to Richard Fitzgerald at<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A
href="mailto:r.fitzgerald@uq.edu.au"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>r.fitzgerald@uq.edu.au</FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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<P><FONT size=2>Dr Richard Fitzgerald<BR><SPAN class=554504304-21022006>Lecturer
in </SPAN>Language and Communication<BR>School of English, Media Studies and Art
History<BR>University of Queensland<BR>Brisbane<BR><BR> </FONT> </P>
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