Title
Universal usability in mass media via discourse analysis: A Case Study
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
The Mass Media involve mechanisms that are intended to reach a wide audience by means of radio, television, newspapers, and Internet, among others. The Mass Media are also responsible for providing the suitable perception of news from different areas such as for instance politics, business, crime, or technology. However, this perception is often manipulated in order to accommodate the information according to a given criteria. This manipulation of the information is suddenly not captured by everyone causing a distortion of the real scenario. In this paper, we illustrate how the use of discourse analysis can improve understanding of such hidden information. We present a case study where this methodology is effectively used to analyze the information provided by news about a social phenomena related to the dehumanization of the female gender. Interesting results are discussed about how this useful methodology could be used to detect communication products that are not usable nor understandable for a wide audience.
Start page
60
End page
63
Volume
528
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias sociales
Comunicación, Medios de comunicación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84951856317
Source
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Resource of which it is part
Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN of the container
18650929
ISBN of the container
9783319213798
Conference
17th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2015
Sponsor(s)
Ricardo Soto is supported by Grant CONICYT/FONDECYT/ INICIACION/11130459 and Broderick Crawford is supported by Grant CONICYT/ FONDECYT/REGULAR/1140897.
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