Analytical Tools and Methods for Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA)

Abstract

This workshop introduces a new framework for analyzing the construction of newsworthiness in contemporary digital news reporting. This framework is called DNVA, or discursive news values analysis (Bednarek & Caple 2017). I will begin by briefly explaining what DNVA is, how it has been applied so far, and importantly, why do it? Then, we will look more closely at the analytical tools for conducting both verbal and visual DNVA, exploring key methodological issues when sampling data from contemporary digital news contexts. The main part of the workshop will focus on a case study investigating the construal of visual DNVA in reporting about China National Day in the Chinese news media. Time will be given over to participants to analyze a series of images using the visual DNVA framework, and to discuss the findings from this analysis. There should be time at the end of the workshop to discuss potential adaptation of this framework for cross-cultural DNVA research. In preparation for the workshop, participants can read more about DNVA at the companion website: https://www.newsvaluesanalysis.com