SOC309H5 Lecture Notes - Reality Television, Postcolonialism, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
Barron and lacombe framing the female youth backlash against feminism in the newspaper. Means of framing: selective information to be emphasized or neglected, ex: report on a protest against nuclear waste facility, excludes info on leakage in a similar facility opponents of the planned facility look stupid. You cannot completely ignore the minority view however give more time and space to dominant issue view by exposing you to unpopular view in weakened form mass media is ensuring you do not agree with that unpopular view. Adherence to an established discursive domain (familiar to audience from other cultural: shudson: cultural preference for narrative over analysis causes news to be present as a story: concrete character, underrepresentation of broader social forces, dominant value system/ideology. Tewksbury americans online news consumption supports ideology of polticial absentism. Recent ambiguous, with predictable outcome, immediate to the audience, contain conflict/violence; are neg; events are preffered over concepts; personified; dramatic.