Abstract
The present paper deals with the production of a multimodal news item from an ethnographic perspective, aiming at fully understanding the role played by news values, i.e. shared criteria for news selection, in newsroom argumentation. The news item we consider is the picture news from Corriere del Ticino, the main Italian-language newspaper in Switzerland. As the Italian name fototesto says, this news item combines a verbal and a photographical component, presenting the journalists with particular challenges in its selection. To shed light on this production process, we take as a case study a picture news on eco-friendly heat distribution and the editorial conference leading to its choice, which took place on January 24, 2013. We analyze the interaction from the viewpoint of argumentation theory, combining Pragma-Dialectics (van Eemeren and Grootendorst) and the Argumentum Model of Topics (Rigotti and Greco Morasso 2009, 2010, under review), and unravel the reasons behind choices in content and form taken collaboratively by the journalists.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Multimodality in argumentation
- The thinness of multimodal argument: The problem of under–specification
- Discussing discourse modalities in argument theory: Reconsidering a paradigm
- Multimodal argumentation: Beyond the verbal/visual divide
- The thickness of multimodal argument: The virtues of condensation
- Visual rhetorical argumentation
- Multimodal meaning-construction and the logical structure of arguments
- It’s all about logics?! Analyzing the rhetorical structure of multimodal filmic text
- The argumentative and rhetorical function of multimodal metonymy
- Multimodality in the analysis, design, and support of argumentative activities
- On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach
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- The collaborative dimensions of argument maps: A socio-visual approach
- Peirce's rhetoric and methodeutic
- Introduction: Peirce’s rhetoric and methodeutic
- Peirce’s “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing” and the relationship between methodeutic, speculative rhetoric, and the universal art of rhetoric
- The problematics of truth and solidarity in Peirce’s rhetoric
- Speculative rhetoric, methodeutic, and Peirce’s hexadic sign-systems
- Methodeutic and the order of inquiry
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Multimodality in argumentation
- The thinness of multimodal argument: The problem of under–specification
- Discussing discourse modalities in argument theory: Reconsidering a paradigm
- Multimodal argumentation: Beyond the verbal/visual divide
- The thickness of multimodal argument: The virtues of condensation
- Visual rhetorical argumentation
- Multimodal meaning-construction and the logical structure of arguments
- It’s all about logics?! Analyzing the rhetorical structure of multimodal filmic text
- The argumentative and rhetorical function of multimodal metonymy
- Multimodality in the analysis, design, and support of argumentative activities
- On the production of a multimodal news item: An argumentative approach
- Argumentation in participant-driven photo interviews: A case in ICT for development in Mozambique
- The collaborative dimensions of argument maps: A socio-visual approach
- Peirce's rhetoric and methodeutic
- Introduction: Peirce’s rhetoric and methodeutic
- Peirce’s “Ideas, stray or stolen, about scientific writing” and the relationship between methodeutic, speculative rhetoric, and the universal art of rhetoric
- The problematics of truth and solidarity in Peirce’s rhetoric
- Speculative rhetoric, methodeutic, and Peirce’s hexadic sign-systems
- Methodeutic and the order of inquiry