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Media Representations of Dangerousness [PDF]
Media representations reflect a wide conceptualisation of ‘dangerousness’, which often bears little relation to professional definitions. This article considers the press representation of ‘dangerous offenders’ and wider notions of ‘dangerousness’ and ‘risk’, and discusses their construction in terms of both the determinants of newsworthiness and as a ...
Greer, C.
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Media representations of the prison [PDF]
The objective of the paper is to scientifically analyze the media?s portrayal of the prison in the social, cultural and historical context. The method used is content analysis. The paper is based on the pluralistic theoretical orientation of the author grounded in the theory of social constructivism.
Aleksandar Jugovic, Dragica Bogetic
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Representation of women in media [PDF]
Media are just one of the means of production, maintenance and reproduction of stereotypes, which refer to groups. As Richard Dyer argues, the pattern of stereotypes is not neutral, they are intensely charged with emotions, and therefore are the fortresses of our tradition.
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Abstract This presentation will discuss preliminary findings of a media content analysis focused on how the news media have represented food policy and different food movements, such as slow food, veganism and vegetarianism, and climate-friendly diets.
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Media and Intoxication: Media Representations of the Intoxicated [PDF]
This book considers the global discourses and debates about ‘intoxication’, engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations.
Ayres, T, Taylor, S
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Media, power and representation [PDF]
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies on 20th June 2018, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-English-Language-Studies/Seargeant-Hewings-Pihlaja/p/book/9781138913455 ; As the ubiquity and potential influence of the media increase ...
Neary, Clara, Ringrow, Helen
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Disproportionality in media representations of campaign negativity [PDF]
AbstractWe explore mediated representations of parties' campaign interactions in multi-party systems. Actors in multi-party systems can engage with different actors on multiple issues. One crucial aspect of such engagement is the element of negativity—voicing criticisms of other actors' actions and policy proposals.
Dominic Nyhuis+2 more
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Media Representations of Euthanasia [PDF]
For some time now there has been a divergence between public support for euthanasia and its illegal status within British law as well as its rejection by the medical profession. There have been a number of studies of public opinion, and there already exists a wealth of expert literature on the topic, by lawyers, health professionals and philosophers ...
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Media theory: Representations and examples
In this paper we develop a representational approach to media theory. We construct representations of media by well graded families of sets and partial cubes and establish the uniqueness of these representations. Two particular examples of media are also described in detail.
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Representation of Media Policy [PDF]
AbstractThe coverage of debates about media policy presents a unique situation in which the media has the responsibility of managing debates on their policy. In Western democracies, it is widely accepted that what legitimates the media is its role in the sustenance of democracy.
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