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color=#000000 size=3>William Housley and Richard Fitzgerald.
(eds)</FONT></P>
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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
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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
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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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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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color=#000000>Please
send<SPAN class=554504304-21022006> </SPAN>correspondence and
abstracts in the
first instance to Richard Fitzgerald
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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>
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