The Case of Clint Hallam's Wayward Hand: Print Media Representations of the ‘Uncooperative’ Disabled Patient

Continuum ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona A. Kumari Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
Media Representations

scholarly journals ‘As parents congregated at parties’: Responsibility and blame in media representations of violence and school closure in an Indigenous community

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-606
Author(s):  
Clarissa Carden
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
School Closure ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Remote Indigenous Community ◽  
Primary Groups ◽  
The Way

This article considers the discourses of responsibility and blame emerging from newspaper reportage of a crisis in the remote Indigenous community of Aurukun in Northern Queensland, Australia. In doing so, it aims to contribute to the sociology of racism and add to the existing body of scholarship on the ways in which deracialised media discourse can nevertheless be racist. The month of May 2016 saw violence perpetrated by young people against the teachers and principal of the community’s only school. Teachers were evacuated to the regional city of Cairns on 10 May due to violence in the community and fears for their safety. They returned on 18 May, only to be evacuated again on 25 May. These events form the focus of the reportage analysed in this article. The way in which three primary groups of players – parents, teachers and police – are portrayed in mainstream print media is analysed in order to ascertain how responsibility and blame are apportioned in relation to these events.

scholarly journals Mainstream print media representations of childhood obesity in the United Kingdom and Sweden

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Nimegeer ◽  
M Lof ◽  
C Patterson ◽  
J van Hooft ◽  
S Hilton
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals ‘Battle of the sixes’: Investigating print media representations of female professional golfers competing in a men’s tour event

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 664-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Bowes ◽  
Niamh Kitching
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Professional Golfers

In May 2018, the men’s European Tour invited five female professional golfers to compete in its GolfSixes event in England, against 27 professional male players. This was significant, particularly given the female struggle for equality of access, participation, employment and decision making in golf settings. This research investigates the print media representation of these five female professional golfers competing in this male domain. Using the Nexis database, data were collected from print newspapers in the United Kingdom and Ireland over six days before, during and after the event. Following thematic analysis, findings highlight a double-edged sword with regard to media coverage of female athletes competing against men: women received greater media coverage when in the male sport spotlight, but the coverage was framed by gendered discourses. The results document a slow shift towards more equal and equitable print media coverage of female athletes, whilst drawing attention to the problematic ways in which sportswomen are represented.

scholarly journals Representations of the National Health Service (NHS) in UK print media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Walker ◽  
Paul Hanna ◽  
Jayne Raisborough
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Public Support ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Key Events

Abstract Generating negative news coverage of state welfare provision has been identified as a strategy designed to create public support for radical policies aimed to reduce such provision. To date, research of this kind has focused on scandals and crises. However, little is known about the complex relationship between media representations of specific events, and those of media representations in the lead up to these events, what we refer to as periphery representations. Employing a content and frame analysis, this paper analyses the frequency and intensity of peripheral representations of the National Health Service (NHS) in the British print media for 1 week a month before and for 1 week during three key events in recent NHS history: the official consultation period for the Health and Social Care Act; the publication of Five-Year Forward View, and the first Junior Doctor Strike. This article finds that negative NHS representations in articles that are peripheral to particular topical issues of controversy evidence fluctuations, amplifications and intensities across time periods, depending on the particular context. The paper concludes by arguing that repetition of negative themes in news helps to build a sensibility of ‘inadequacy’ of vital services. We hope that this focus on the ways in which amplifications and de-amplifications in negative intensity of peripheral NHS representations across time and content, helps to contribute to debate about the complex interplay between public health services, media representation and policy consent.

Media representations of multilingual Luxembourg

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Horner
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Media Representations

Following Ruiz’s discussion of orientations in language planning, distinguishing between language as right, resource and problem, this paper unpacks the ways in which related discourses are circulated in the Luxembourgish print media. Particular attention is paid to how these discourses are interwoven with debates on education and citizenship and how they draw on deeply entrenched language ideological beliefs about language and society, e.g. that “valuable” forms of individual multilingualism are a desirable goal, whereas linguistic heterogeneity constitutes a problem. Moreover, the analysis shows that the texts thematizing multilingualism are bound up with a discourse of rights and duties, and that right and duty, as well as problem and resource, need to be conceptualized as two intersecting continua informing language ideological debates.

scholarly journals Media representations of COVID-19 public health policies: assessing the portrayal of essential health services in Canadian print media

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ubaka Ogbogu ◽  
Lorian Hardcastle
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Canadian Print Media

Abstract Aims: The study assessed how the Canadian print media represented essential healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the controversial decision to include liquor and cannabis stores in essential services lists.Methods: Quantitative content analysis of sixty-seven articles published in major Canadian English language newspapers between March 23 and April 1, 2020. Articles were analyzed and coded by two raters. Ratings were analyzed in SPSS.Results and Discussion: Few articles in the sample discussed essential healthcare services and the inclusion of liquor and cannabis stores in essential services lists. Majority of the articles that discussed both topics framed the discussion positively and consistently with current knowledge and evidence.Conclusion: Canadian print media representations of essential healthcare services and associated public debate are largely descriptive and, therefore, fail to engage critically with or advance public understanding of an important health policy issue.

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