I see many possibilities for this forum and am looking forward to its development. In response to your excellent suggestion, Peggy, my research is in the area of children’s literature (broadly construed), rhetoric of literacies beyond reading and writing (multimodal, multimedia, other-than-word-based semiotic systems, and non-semiotic p…[Read more]

Gloria — You might look for David Altheide and Chris Schneider’s Qualitative Media Analysis, which describes using ethnographic content analysis to examine various forms of news media in the manner you suggest, although it is focused more on the process of producing news than the product. The method might help you organize the work initially;…[Read more]

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