2019
DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spz006
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“In Today's Market, Your Food Chooses You”: News Media Constructions of Responsibility for Health through Home Cooking

Abstract: This article examines North American national news media’s 2015–16 presentation of family meals. Analyzing 326 articles, I identify the ubiquity of a narrative of deterioration, or the presumption that families are replacing meals made from whole, unprocessed ingredients consumed communally around a table, with processed and pre-prepared foods eaten alone or “on the go”. In analyzing the construction of responsibility for this deterioration, I find that the sample predominately frames the production of healthy… Show more

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“…This is a finding that contradicts expectations that come from a critical perspective on neoliberalism, which would predict that the time frame under study would witness frequent attribution of causes and solutions for social problems to individuals (Harvey, 2005). In this way, our study is in line with other recent research that finds that neoliberalism can manifest in news discourse in complicated ways, where there is some understanding for the systemic nature of social problems that affect the disadvantaged (Oleschuk, 2020). The finding of an overall frame of "urgent but ambiguous" is further relevant for understanding how discourses can reproduce inequality.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
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“…This is a finding that contradicts expectations that come from a critical perspective on neoliberalism, which would predict that the time frame under study would witness frequent attribution of causes and solutions for social problems to individuals (Harvey, 2005). In this way, our study is in line with other recent research that finds that neoliberalism can manifest in news discourse in complicated ways, where there is some understanding for the systemic nature of social problems that affect the disadvantaged (Oleschuk, 2020). The finding of an overall frame of "urgent but ambiguous" is further relevant for understanding how discourses can reproduce inequality.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 89%
“…cholarly work on news framing has a long tradition across a range of disciplines. This work has covered a wide variety of topical issues, and it continues to inspire empirical investigations and conceptual innovations (Oleschuk, 2020;Shah, 2019). Studies of news framing are valuable in part because they identify the ways that complicated social issues are presented to the general public; framings select, emphasize, and naturalize particular definitions of, causes of, consequences of, and solutions to issues that are identified as problems (Entman, 1993).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This discourse focuses on consumers and medicalizes the food system as nutrition, diet, and individual behavior with an emphasis on solutions that call for education and/or policing personal conduct [ 35 ]. This discourse minimizes or ignores the contribution of the non-medical determinants of health to population health, (i.e., transportation, income, or neighborhood conditions), eventually asserting individual responsibility as the basis for good or poor health [ 36 , 37 , 38 ]. One underlying message is that having poor health results from “deviant” behavior, where those who suffer from diet-related diseases and sickness have failed to exhibit a sufficient degree of personal responsibility for their lives and more specifically what foods they eat [ 39 ].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The narrative exerts the primacy or role of consumer choice in the food system chain [ 16 ]. The discourse presumes that groups near the bottom of the social gradient will first and foremost be concerned with availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability, and accommodation ( Table 3 ) [ 38 , 66 ]. The narrative in this discourse argues against the idea that the health problems of low-wealth groups are caused by or solely attributable to poor eating behavior, lack of nutritional knowledge, or irresponsible behavior [ 67 , 68 , 69 ].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
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