scholarly journals ‘Team GB’ or ‘Team Scotland’? Media representations of ‘Britishness’ and ‘Scottishness’ at London 2012 and Glasgow 2014

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1450-1467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Black ◽  
Stuart Whigham
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Or Team ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Commonwealth Games ◽  
Discursive Constructions ◽  
British Nationalism

This article critically reflects upon media coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, scrutinising the emergent discursive constructions of ‘Britishness’ and ‘Scottishness’ through an examination of both London-based (English) and Scotland-based publications. Drawing upon Dayan and Katz’s portrayal of ‘media events’, the article explores how both events presented competing sites of symbolic struggle during a period of constitutional and political turmoil. Consideration is given to the existence of a ‘hegemonic Britishness’ in print media narratives of these events, as evident in the emergent connotations associated with ‘British nationalism’ and ‘Scottish separatism’.

Determinants of sports coverage: Newsworthiness in US media coverage of foreign athletes during the London 2012 Olympic Games

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 933-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong Choul Hong ◽  
Kyong-Soo Oh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Sports Coverage ◽  
Military Expenditures

This study examined US media coverage of foreign nations and their athletes during the 2012 London Olympic Games. An analysis of NBC primetime telecasts and sports coverage in The New York Times found that foreign nations and their athletes were not significantly affected by any given nation’s performance during the Olympics. However, coverage of the Olympics was actually based on several contextual factors. While a few elite countries’ dominance in the Olympics secured US media coverage, military expenditures, linguistic proximity to the United States, and the number of sports celebrities and gold medals won often predicted a country’s visibility in US media.

Acts of War: Military Metaphors in Representations of Lebanese Youth Gangs

2003 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Noble ◽  
Scott Poynting
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Youth Gangs ◽  
Gang Rape ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Good And Evil

The media representations of the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the United States and their aftermath bear strong similarities to the media coverage of ‘Lebanese youth gangs' over the last few years — both rely significantly on the metaphor of war. This paper explores two media narratives about Lebanese youth gangs which draw on this metaphor — the first deploys a simple us/them structure which, like the dominant Western reportage of the terrorist crisis, turns on a form of moral reduction in which the forces of good and evil are relatively clear. The accumulated imagery of Lebanese gangs, drugs, crime, violence and ‘ethnic gang rape’ articulates a dangerous otherness of those of Arabic-speaking background — echoed in the coverage of the terrorist ‘attack on America'. This simple narrative, however, gives way to a second, emerging narrative about Lebanese youth gangs which also relies on the metaphor of war but acknowledges the moral duplicity of both ‘combatants' — registering the culpability of the state and its police service but distancing ‘the ordinary Australian ‘from this culpability. The second narrative, like the first, tries to recuperate a moral innocence for the ‘ordinary Australian’, but in doing so underlines a crisis in Australian multiculturalism.

Borrowing Brands to Create a Brand: The Commercial Mediation of Paralympic Athletes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 507-525
Author(s):  
Carolyn Jackson-Brown
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Production Practice ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Elite Status ◽  
Empirical Material

A transformational shift in recognition for Paralympic athletes occurred when media representations of disability were dramatically reframed for the UK’s coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The success of that media coverage was consolidated and built upon for Rio 2016 and has been attributed in huge part to the success of the marketing. Drawing on interviews with the key decision makers, conducted shortly after Channel 4’s historic 2012 Paralympic media coverage, my empirical material illuminates how the process of changing perceptions relied heavily on branded meanings. Alongside the unorthodox visual portrayals, partnerships with familiar brands were felt to be necessary to help resonate normal feelings for digital consumers and reinforce mainstream cultural acceptance. It was not enough to just change televisual representations of para-sports bodies and saturate the TV/online schedule with elite status programming, the producers knew they needed to use meanings associated with commodified brands to reassure the public as well. This study is based on corporate internal documentation as well as interviews with executive and creative decision makers working for the UK’s Paralympic broadcaster, Channel 4. It reveals a production practice that is not normally associated with bringing marginalised groups to the mainstream media attention.

scholarly journals Measles, Moral Regulation and the Social Construction of Risk: Media Narratives of “Anti-Vaxxers” and the 2015 Disneyland Outbreak

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Capurro ◽  
Josh Greenberg ◽  
Eve Dubé ◽  
Michelle Driedger
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Measles Outbreak ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Social Construction Of Risk

This paper examines media coverage of the 2014-15 measles outbreak that began at Disneyland and spread throughout the United States and into Canada and Mexico. Specifically, it focuses on the construction of ‘anti-vaxxers’ as a central character in the outbreak’s unfolding narrative who came to represent a threat to public health and moral order. Although parents who hold strong anti-vaccine views are small in number, media representations of ‘anti-vaxxers’ as prominent figures fail to capture the broad range of views and behaviours that constitute what we today call ‘vaccine hesitancy’ and thus delimit our understanding of this increasingly complex health issue.

scholarly journals Echoes of Empire: racism and historical amnesia in the British media coverage of migration

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Połońska-Kimunguyi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Times ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
The Guardian

AbstractThis paper looks at how the British media addressed the issue of migration in Europe between 2015 and 2018, four years when the topic was high on news and political agendas, due to the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ and the UK’s debate on Britain’s relationship with the European Union and free movement of people. Based on a sample of 400 articles from two national newspapers, The Guardian and The Times, the paper compares the content and discourse between the left-wing and right-wing press. The paper argues that media representations turn refugees into ‘migrants’ and portray them as either a threat to the national economy and security or as passive victims of distant circumstances. The study historicizes these media narratives and reveals that the discourse they employ advances the racialised mix of knowledge and historical amnesia and reproduces the age-old hierarchies of the colonial system which divided humans into superior and inferior species. Migrant voice is largely missing from the coverage. History, that could explain the causes of ‘migration’, the distant conflicts and Britain’s role in them, is also nowhere to be found. The paper considers the exclusion of history and migrant voices from stories told to the British audience and reflects on their domestic and international implications.

A corpus-based study of representation of Islam and Muslims in American media: Critical Discourse Analysis Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852098744
Author(s):  
Ke Li ◽  
Qiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Strong Conclusion ◽  
American Media

Media representations have significant power to shape opinions and influence public response to communities or groups around the world. This study investigates media representations of Islam and Muslims in the American media, drawing upon an analysis of reports in the New York Times over a 17-year period (from Jan.1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2016) within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis. It examines how Islam and Muslims are represented in media coverage and how discursive power is penetrated step by step through such media representations. Most important, it investigates whether Islam and Muslims have been stigmatized through stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. The findings reveal that the New York Times’ representations of Islam and Muslims are negative and stereotypical: Islam is stereotyped as the unacclimatized outsider and the turmoil maker and Muslims as the negative receiver. The stereotypes contribute to people’s prejudice, such as Islamophobia from the “us” group and fear of the “them” group but do not support a strong conclusion of discrimination.

scholarly journals Leading for gold: social identity leadership processes at the London 2012 Olympic Games

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Slater ◽  
Jamie B. Barker ◽  
Pete Coffee ◽  
Marc V. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
London 2012

We’ve Come a Long Way, But We Could Be Doing Better: Gendered Commentary in U.S. Media Coverage of the 1999 and 2019 Women’s World Cup

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Eileen Díaz McConnell ◽  
Neal Christopherson ◽  
Michelle Janning
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
World Cup ◽  
National Team ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
First World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

In 2019, the U.S. Women’s National Team earned its fourth FIFA Women’s World Cup. Has gendered commentary in media coverage about the U.S. Women’s National Team changed since winning their first World Cup 20 years ago? Drawing on 188 newspaper articles published in three U.S. newspapers in 2019, the analyses contrast media representations of the 2019 team with a previous study focused on coverage of the 1999 team. Our analysis shows important shifts in the coverage over time. The 1999 team was popular because of their contradictory femininity in which they were “strong-yet-soft.” By 2019, the team’s popularity was rooted in their talent, hard work, success, and refusal to be silent about persisting gender-based disparities in sport and the larger society.

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