scholarly journals Discursive de/humanizing: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of television news representations of undocumented youth

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ruth M. López
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Dream Act ◽  
Undocumented Youth ◽  
The Public

This article addresses television news coverage of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2010, which would have created a path to legal residency for thousands of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Considering the role that news media play in socially constructing groups of people, through an analysis of English- and Spanish-language evening television news coverage of the DREAM Act of 2010, the author examined discursive practices used to represent undocumented youth in both dehumanizing and humanizing ways. The author discusses the implications of these types of discourses for education policy understanding by the public and education stakeholders.

scholarly journals Education Coverage in Television News: A Typology and Analysis of 35 Years of Topics

AERA Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 233285841775169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Coe ◽  
Paul J. Kuttner
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Appendix ◽  
News Networks ◽  
K 12

News media play a significant role in the education policy arena, informing the public about pressing issues and influencing how such issues are prioritized and understood. For this reason, researchers are increasingly raising concerns about how much attention news media give to education, which topics are covered, and how topics are addressed. In this article, the authors advance this growing body of research through a quantitative content analysis of the topics in national television news coverage of pre-K–12 (early childhood through high school) education in the United States over the past 35 years. The authors present their typology of education topics, providing a foundation for future research in this area, and analyze major trends. This article also serves as an introduction to a new data set: 2,322 abstracts, representing all substantial education news coverage from the three major evening news networks, included as an online appendix.

“Producing Human Capital”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Title II of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaran Shin ◽  
Liz Ging
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Workforce Innovation

Historical and legislative evolutions of education policy have repurposed federally funded adult education programs in the United States. The 2014 passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) has considerable repercussions for everyone involved in the field because it controls the funding, assessment, and structure of these programs. Using critical discourse analysis, this study examines the public law and a Program Memorandum from the federal government. It demonstrates how the language used in the documents characterizes Title II of WIOA (the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act), the goals of adult education, eligible adult learners, and the process by which programs are held accountable for federal funding. The findings show the ways in which Title II tactically legitimizes the U.S. government’s neoliberal capitalist desire within a democratic society: The idealistic language of opportunity acts as a camouflage for the further infiltration of market-oriented practices into the public sector.

scholarly journals How television news disguises its racist representations: The case of Romanian Antena 1 reporting on the Roma

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-843
Author(s):  
Petre Breazu ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Eu Project

Research shows that news media around the world tend to represent ethnic minorities in ways which nurture distorted views and invite negative attitudes. Scholars have also emphasised that, in contemporary societies, a political climate has emerged which has made overt racism unacceptable and social taboos leading to racist statements are increasingly being managed and disguised in order to avoid direct accusations. In this paper we use Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) to carry out an in-depth analysis of a Romanian television news report—selected from a larger corpus—which addressed the situation of the Roma migrants in Norway. We show how this medium, with editing techniques, voice-overs, sound effects and captions, has its own subtleties for communicating racism in ways that are less obvious at a casual viewing. The case we analyse reports on a Norwegian/EU project to build a factory in Romania, so that Roma migrants can return home to work rather than live and beg on the streets of Oslo.

scholarly journals The ignored audience: A multi-method reception study on children and television news in Albania

Childhood ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiljano Kaziaj ◽  
Sofie Van Bauwel
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Broadcast News ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reception Study ◽  
The Public Sphere

Children are not considered to be an appropriate audience for news coverage based on their presumed lack of emotional maturity, critical thinking and proper knowledge. This article challenges these views by presenting the opinions of children aged 10–15 who report having watched broadcast news nearly every day. Additionally, the views of adults aged 25–62 are investigated. Children contest to the ways they are being portrayed by the news media and demonstrate their need to be considered as active participants in the public sphere, which is presented by the news media as an exclusive domain for adults.

scholarly journals Risk, Stigma, Trustworthiness, and Citizen Participation—A Multifaceted Analysis of Media Coverage of Dioxin Contamination in Midland, Michigan

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (21) ◽  
pp. 4165
Author(s):  
Jie Zhuang ◽  
Jeffrey G. Cox ◽  
Minwoong Chung ◽  
Joseph A. Hamm ◽  
Adam Zwickle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
News Media ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Dioxin Contamination

In the United States, more than 200 communities are designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as areas of concern for dioxins. Informing the public about potential risks associated with dioxins and delivering information about how to avoid such risks are essential activities. News coverage of environmental and health problems affects how members of the public assess those problems in terms of both severity and how they are understood, as well as the extent of attention given to the problem by policy-makers. To contextualize public and institutional responses to dioxin contamination and remediation in a dioxin-affected community, we assessed 176 newspaper articles published over 30 years concerning dioxin contamination in Midland, Michigan, in terms of risk, trust in institutions, environmental stigma, and citizen participation. Articles about dioxin contamination and remediation in Midland appeared in both domestic and international newspapers. Domestically, both national and local newspapers covered this issue. The risks for human health and the environment caused by exposure to dioxins were widely covered, with much less media attention given to the trustworthiness of the organizations responsible for managing the risk, environmental stigma, and citizen participation. News coverage of these four themes also changed significantly overtime. Overall, our findings highlight the important role of local news media in communicating risk information, guiding safe behaviors, and facilitating community-level decision-making.

scholarly journals From the Deeming Rule to JUUL—US News Coverage of Electronic Cigarettes, 2015–2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1816-1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia A Wackowski ◽  
Jennah M Sontag ◽  
Binu Singh ◽  
Jessica King ◽  
M Jane Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Electronic Cigarettes ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
High Volume ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Introduction News media may influence public perceptions and attitudes about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), which may influence product use and attitudes about their regulation. The purpose of this study is to describe trends in US news coverage of e-cigarettes during a period of evolving regulation, science, and trends in the use of e-cigarettes. Methods We conducted a content analysis of e-cigarette topics and themes covered in US news articles from 2015 to 2018. Online news databases (Access World News, Factiva) were used to obtain US news articles from the top 34 circulating newspapers, four national wire services, and five leading online news sources. Results The number of articles increased by 75.4% between 2015 and 2018 (n = 1609). Most articles focused on policy/regulation (43.5%) as a main topic, followed by health effects (22.3%) and prevalence/trends (17.9%). Discussion about flavor bans quadrupled (6.1% to 24.6%) and discussion of youth e-cigarette use was most prevalent (58.4%) in 2018, coinciding with an increase in coverage about JUUL. JUUL was mentioned in 50.8% of 2018 articles. Across years, articles more frequently mentioned e-cigarette risks (70%) than potential benefits (37.3%). Conclusions E-cigarettes continue to be a newsworthy topic, with coverage both reflecting numerous changes and events over time, and providing repeated opportunities for informing the public and policymakers about these novel products. Future research should continue to track how discourse changes over time and assess its potential influence on e-cigarette perceptions and policy changes. Implications E-cigarette news coverage in the United States increased between 2015 and 2018 and predominantly focused on policy and regulation. Notable spikes in volume were associated with some but not all major e-cigarette events, including the FDA’s deeming rule, Surgeon General’s report, and release of the National Youth Tobacco Survey data in 2018. Coverage of the 2018 National Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Sciences report on the Public Health Consequences of E-cigarettes received minimal news coverage. The high volume in 2018 was driven in large part by coverage of the e-cigarette brand JUUL; over half of news articles in 2018 referenced JUUL specifically.

Vluchtelingen in beeldDit artikel onderzoekt hoe Vlaamse nieuwsmedia berichten over vluchtelingen in tijden van veel maatschappelijk debat over migratie. De onderzochte televisiezenders VTM en VRT berichten op een evenwichtige manier en creëren over het algemeen geen expliciet ‘wij-zij’-perspectief, ondanks enkele negatieve representatiediscoursen zoals stereotiepe beelden, negatief woordgebruik en het collectiviseren van vluchtelingen. Ook rapporteert openbare omroep VRT meer genuanceerd en uitgebreider dan commerciële zender VTM.

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Van Haelter ◽  
Stijn Joye
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Public Broadcaster

Refugees on screen. A critical discourse analysis of the news discourse about Syrian refugees by the public and commercial broadcaster in Flanders The civil war in Syria, ongoing since 2011, forced 6.7 million people to flee their country (UNHCR, 2019). Applying a critical discourse analysis, this study investigates the representation of refugees by the public (VRT) and the commercial (VTM) broadcaster in Flanders, focusing on September 2015 and December 2018. Our findings show that Flemish news media do not discursively reproduce the established socio-demographic binary of ‘us’ and ‘them’ as they generally tend to avoid portraying refugees as ‘others’. The public broadcaster reports more on the topic and offers more contextualization, resulting in a more nuanced style of reporting. Nevertheless, there are a few implicit articulations of a negative discourse about refugees as both broadcasters occasionally apply negative nomenclature and use stereotypical imagery.

scholarly journals Kekerasan Non-fisik Media pada Artis Gisella Anastasia (Analisis Wacana Kritis Sara Mills)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-288
Author(s):  
Agung Pangeran Bungsu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
News Media ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Abstract: The increasing violence against women makes the issue of gender will continue to be interesting to study. The forms of violence committed against women are also increasingly diverse, one of which is non-physical violence through the news media. Women are often treated unfairly and even harassed their dignity in news discourse. This paper will describe the styles of two media that are quite popular in Indonesia, namely Detik.com and Media Indonesia in constructing news about the hot video of artist Gisella Anastasia. Then the discourse construction will be analyzed using Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis. Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis will analyze the discourse building holistically which includes the position of the subject-object and also the position of the writer-reader in the news. The results of the study reveal that the position of the subject and the author is dominated by men to convince the public that women are the cause of the hot video case. The tendentious narratives aimed at women by the two media in constructing discourse further exacerbate the framing inherent in women. Keywords: Gisella Anastasia, Sara Mills Critical Discourse Analysis, Sara Mills Critical Discourse Analysis Abstrak: Meningkatknya kekerasan pada perempuan membuat isu tentang gender akan terus menarik untuk dikaji. Bentuk kekerasan yang dilakukan pada perempuan juga semakin beragam, salah satunya kekerasan non fisik lewat media pemberitaan. Perempuan kerap diperlakukan tidak adil bahkan dilecehkan martabatnya dalam pewacanaan berita. Tulisan ini akan menguraikan gaya dua media yang cukup populer di Indonesia yaitu Detik.com dan Media Indonesia dalam mengkonstruksikan berita tentang video panas artis Gisella Anastasia. Kemudian konstruksi wacana akan dianalisa dengan menggunakan analisis wacana kritis Sara Mills. Analisis wacana kritis Sara Mills akan menganalisa bangunan wacana secara holistik yang meliputi posisi subjek-objek dan juga posisi penulis-pembaca dalam pemberitaan. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan posisi subjek maupun penulis dikuasai oleh laki-laki untuk meyakinkan publik bahwa perempuan sebagai penyebab terjadinya kasus video panas. Narasi tendensius yang ditujukan bagi perempuan oleh kedua media dalam mengkonstruksikan wacana semakin memperburuk framing yang melekat pada perempuan. Kata Kunci: Gisella Anastasia, Analisis Wacana Kritis Sara Mills, Critical Discourse Analysis Sara Mills

Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saira Ali ◽  
Umi Khattab
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
Media Narratives

This article presents an empirical analysis of the Australian media representation of terrorism using the 2014 Sydney Lindt Café siege as a case in point to engage with the notion of moral panic. Deploying critical discourse analysis and case study as mixed methods, insights into trans-media narratives and aftermath of the terrifying siege are presented. While news media appeared to collaborate with the Australian right-wing government in the reporting of terrorism, social media posed challenges and raised security concerns for the state. Social media heightened the drama as sites were variously deployed by the perpetrator, activists and concerned members of the public. The amplified trans-media association of Muslims with terrorism in Australia and its national and global impact, in terms of the political exclusion of Muslims, are best described in this article in the form of an Islamophobic Moral Panic Model, invented for a rethink of the various stages of its occurrence, intensification and institutionalization.

The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kaufer ◽  
Shawn J. Parry-Giles ◽  
Beata Beigman Klebanov
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
News Media ◽  
Television News ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Political Language ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
And Gender

Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to continuous de-contextualization and re-contextualization. Drawing from theories of feminist critical discourse analysis and gender performance as well as scholarship on the public/private divide, we examine the commentary of one U.S. television news organization’s (NBC) re-contextualization of the same stock footage of Hillary Clinton over 10 newscasts spanning 20 months from August 1998 to June of 2000. NBC re-enforces the public/private binary in conventional masculine terms. Yet it also worked, at times, to unify the binary when covering Hillary Clinton’s U.S. Senate campaign; on those occasions at least, NBC revealed the potential erosion of gender stereotypes and a small but still significant role for human agency in the study of gender ideology.

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