News Discourse and Power

ISBN-13: 9780367697938 / Miękka / 2023 / 144 str.

Opis

This edited collection includes eight chapters examining instances of where inequality is examined in the media, for example coverage of Thomas Piketty, precarity, corporate tax rates and race, class and gender- related issues.

Spis treści

Introduction: Journalism, Discourse and the Reproduction of Inequality

Henry Silke, Fergal Quinn and Maria Rieder

1. ‘Piketty is a genius, but … ’: an analysis of journalistic delegitimation of Thomas Piketty’s economic policy proposals

Maria Rieder and Hendrik Theine

2. Denying, downplaying, debating: defensive discourses of inequality in the debate on Piketty

Andrea Grisold and Henry Silke

3. ‘Overpaid’ and ‘inefficient’: print media framings of the public sector in The Irish Times and The Irish Independent during the financial crisis

Aileen Marron

4. Cooking a corporation tax controversy: Apple, Ireland and the EU

Ciara Graham and Brendan K. O’Rourke

5. Her name was Clodagh: Twitter and the news discourse of murder suicide

Fergal Quinn, Muireann Prendergast and Audrey Galvin

6. Discourses of tragedy: a comparative corpus-based study of newspaper reportage of the Berkeley balcony collapse and Carrickmines fire

Fergal Quinn and Elaine Vaughan

7. Fake news? A critical analysis of the ‘Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All’ campaign in Ireland

Eoin Devereux and Martin J. Power

8. Narrowing the discourse? Growing precarity in freelance journalism and its effect on the construction of news discourse

Kathryn Hayes and Henry Silke

O autorze

Henry Silke lectures in journalism at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include ideology, the political economy of journalism and the role of communications and journalism in economic systems.

Fergal Quinn lectures in journalism at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research focuses on comparative ethical norms in journalism, media representation of minorities and risk communication.

Maria Rieder is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research focuses on social and economic inequality, minority communities and languages, language in the media, social movements and intercultural communication, with a specific focus on the role of language in the production of power and social conflict.