TY  - JOUR
T1  - News Angle as a Non-Human Actor in the Construction of Newsworthiness: A Case Study of Sinar Harian
AU - Othman, Siti S. 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 10
IS  - 6
SP  - 1352
EP  - 1362
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2015.1352.1362
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.1352.1362
KW  - newsworthiness
KW  -news angle
KW  -Actor network theory
KW  -Sinar Harian
KW  -Malaysia
AB  - News construction is always associated with the news angle. It is the focus of the news that determines what is being emphasized in a news story, thus forming the identity of a particular newspaper. This study, focusing on a newspaper in Malaysia known as Sinar Harian, demonstrates how news angles actually construct news. Deploying actor network theory, this research treats news angles as non-human actors that directly influence what becomes news, thus able to trace how identity of a newspaper is formed. It is through the process of enrolment that the identity of a newspaper is being stabilized. Here, the newspaper identity is the result of the process rather than the ‘context’ of news production. This study concludes that the inclusion of non-human actors is always useful in understanding a particular social phenomenon.
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