Abstract
This article is a study of visual, verbal and visual-verbal communication on the home pages of three English-language online newspapers from different national cultures. Important similarities in the visual-verbal structure of news stories and home pages between the three newspapers are identified. Each newspaper demonstrates a similar tendency towards atomization of news texts with which readers interact over short time scales, and a tendency towards greater consistency in the visual-verbal design of news across longer timescales. A genre-specific visual grammar for online newspaper home pages is emerging in response to the demands of the new medium and historical and social trends in news reporting.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 19-53 |
| Number of pages | 35 |
| Journal | Visual Communication |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- critical discourse analysis
- genre
- home pages
- ideology
- media discourse
- multimodaldiscourse
- newsbites
- online newspapers
- semiotics
- systemic functional linguistics