The Demonization of Delinquency: Contesting Media Reporting and Political Rhetoric on Youth Crime

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Rogan
Keyword(s):  
Media Framing ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Recognition Theory ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Contemporary Media

Youth crime has historically been depicted as an exponential social problem continually increasing in severity and occurrences (Muncie, 2010; Males, 1996). The extent of political and media focus on youth crime within contemporary society demonstrates this phenomenon continues unabated (Goldson & Muncie, 2015). Debates have emerged questioning the legitimacy of the preoccupation with youth crime and the influence of media and political representations upon public perceptions (Merlo & Benekos, 2017; Ruigrok et al, 2017; Henderson, 2014; Egan et al, 2013; Cohen, 2011). This paper adds to the debate by asking; is the contemporary media and political focus on youth crime justified? To answer this question, the paper initially examines evidence-based research and statistics on the nature and extent of youth crime and explores political and media representations across the last decade for comparative analysis. This leads to a central argument that political and media representations of youth crime is unwarranted, unbalanced and unjustified. Furthermore, the paper provides context of media framing and political strategizing and considers the repercussions within critical analysis of theoretical concepts of; recognition theory (Honneth, 1995), labelling (Becker, 1973) and differential association (Sutherland, 1947), to advance understanding on the disparities between media and political perceptions of youth crime in opposition to societal reality.

Yoga and Female Objectification: Commodity and Exclusionary Identity in U.S. Women’s Magazines

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandini Bhalla ◽  
David Moscowitz
Keyword(s):  
Media Framing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Contemporary Media

Using textual and visual media framing analysis, this research examines contemporary depictions of yoga in U.S. general interest women’s magazines. Critique of narrative and images from three leading magazines demonstrates how the representation of yoga depicts and positions tropes of female objectification that reify values of commodity, consumerism, and divisive exclusionary identity. Narrative and images dominated by bodies of slim, White, upper-class women perpetuate not only the commodification of yoga but also media framing of its appropriation and negotiation to support a multimillion-dollar industry. Two threads of research dominate this study: (1) how do today’s media representations of yoga practice in the United States foster critical and cultural understanding in light of yoga’s long history, and (2) how does the objectification of women’s bodies in this context contribute to ongoing conversations about commodification, exclusion, and identity in contemporary media depictions of women?

scholarly journals The coronavirus crisis as a world-historic event in the digital era

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-517
Author(s):  
Charalambos Tsekeris ◽  
Persefoni Zeri
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
World Society ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media

The world-historic event of the COVID-19 pandemic has once more confirmed that we live in a hyperconnected world society and that, nowadays, epidemics do not count as merely natural phenomena anymore. In such context, the present paper aims to interpret the complex relationship between the society and COVID-19, with emphasis on the role played by different forces in the field of information policy and public perceptions in general. For this reason, we elaborate on cultural factors, as well as on emotions like responsibility, trust, and fear during the crisis. We also focus on the dynamics of contemporary media in relation to public images of the pandemic, drawing upon relevant findings. Overall, this casts a fresh sociological and interdisciplinary light on the current pandemic as a relational process and a digital media-driven phenomenon.

Building Canals from Panama to Mars

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-446
Author(s):  
Emily Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Chief Engineer ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores common themes between the Martian canal debate and the building of the Panama Canal. The focus is on the American period of canal construction in Panama beginning in 1904. The scope of the discussion ends with the Martian opposition of 1907. During this period, the Martian and Panamanian canal narratives intersected at points that reveal mutual values relating to the use of political rhetoric in science and the idealization of science and scientists. Some of those shared values include the dichotomy of old and new, the emphasis on technoscientific progress, and the relationship among wilderness, masculinity, and self-determination. The first section provides context for the larger canal debate. The second section discusses instances in which contemporary media considered the outcomes if Martians, in the forms of both laborers and engineers, were to assist humans in the building of the Panama Canal. By considering their intervention, Martians became idealized into the archetypes of the efficient worker and the objective expert. This section emphasizes a series of articles published in 1905–06 by the first chief engineer for the U.S. Isthmian Canal Commission, John F. Wallace (1852–1921). The third section further explores the political rhetoric of the canal debate by comparing the public identities of Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and Percival Lowell (1855–1916), both champions of their respective canal intrigues. This comparison reveals the Martian canal debate as one steeped in Progressive Era political ideology as well as other sociopolitical norms. In conclusion, we are left with two versions of the scientific ideal—the objective, apolitical expert and the heroic scientist.

scholarly journals The State We’re in: Violence and Working-Class Women on and off the Contemporary Irish Stage

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-175
Author(s):  
Tom Maguire
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
And Function

AbstractThis essay examines the ways in which women in the lowest socio-economic class are represented on the contemporary Irish stage. Its central concern is with the ways in which the Naturalistic dramatic representation of the home as a domestic sphere for poor women may confound nationalist discourses of the country as home, yet may fail to resist the systemic violence of the state against its most precarious citizens. To do so I set the actual economic conditions of these precarious women alongside social attitudes to poverty and the poor to demonstrate the systemic violence enacted on the most vulnerable. Turning then to dominant media representations, the essay questions the interaction between representation and reality more generally, whereby Ireland’s poorest are demonised and disenfranchised as figures of fun or fear in forms of representational violence. Against this broader backdrop, the paper identifies recurrent forms of and tropes in stage representations to raise questions about both the form and function of theatre for contemporary spectators, focusing on two contemporary plays Waiting on Ikea and Pineapple. For some, this promotes pleasures of recognition; for others the frisson of class voyeurism. The central argument is that little has changed since O'Casey put Juno Boyle and Bessie Burgess onstage – in either the precarious lives led by poor women, their representation on stage or the failures of the audiences or the state to accept responsibility for the unequal lives of Irish citizens.

scholarly journals Trends in media framing of industrial crises reporting: implication for media research in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 254-266
Author(s):  
Julius Abioye Adeyemo ◽  
Olugbenga Elegbe
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Media ◽  
Industrial Crisis ◽  
Crisis Reporting

There has been a scholarly argument among media researchers on how best media analysts should study media perspectives on industrial crisis reporting with reference to research methods, theoretical perspectives and methods of data analysis. Content analysis and meta-analytical approach were employed to gather data from published scholarly articles and theses accessed online. One hundred and fifteen (115) studies were content analyzed, collated and identified based on those that focused their issues on media framing of labour crisis. Evidence from the studies analysed shows that the content analysis and in-depth interviews were predominantly adopted for media representations of industrial crisis, the mixed method research were adopted for data collection while media framing, agenda setting and the priming theories were mostly adopted by most of the studies. It is recommended that studies should employ critical discourse analysis to compliment researchers’ effort to examine how different ideological stances are mediated in the media to reflect social-political dominance, inequality and class struggle that characterize industrial crisis. Keywords: Industrial crisis reporting, Media framing, Research trends, Discourse analysis, Nigeria

scholarly journals Crisis communication strategies of police organizations subsequent negative public perception and media framing

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Alexia Knox
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Internal Variables ◽  
Police Organizations ◽  
Victims Of Violence

This research task examines crisis communication strategies of police organizations acting as spokespersons, subsequent negative public perceptions of police organizations, while attempting to understand how external and some internal variables, particularly, human processes of emotions and behaviors of police officers, victims of violence and minority groups, might contribute to negative crisis outcomes, as described in the regenerative crisis model, as the crisis becomes more prevalent and persuasive through media framing.

“You are not normal, you are against nature”

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-179
Author(s):  
Marianna Patrona
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Public Dialogue ◽  
Child Fostering ◽  
The Media

Abstract This paper examines the media representations of scandalous parliamentary talk on same-sex child fostering in the discourses of representatives of the radical-right Golden Dawn party in Greece, but also by an MP of the conservative ANEL party of the SYRIZA-ANEL joint government at the time. Through discourse- and conversation analysis of online articles and a broadcast interview, it is shown that the media framing of populist statements is negotiated. Moreover, the interview enacts a subtly achieved interactional synergy between the interviewer and the politician, thus failing to address the issues through substantive public dialogue. It is argued that the process of (re)mediating racist or homophobic talk has the potential to serve as a publicity tool creating increased visibility for right-wing populist politicians, their core ideologies and policy platforms. This creates a challenge for practitioners of journalism who must balance disparate concerns in reporting on scandalous talk.

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