Manufacturing Consent

Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam

doi:10.4324/9781315201511-25

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“…While RHA was in particular considered CDA was settled on due to its focus on wider social structures and ideologies while RHA tends to focus more on specific discourses. CDA is also used by Handley (2018) and Ingram and Allen (2019) in their work and echos the theoretical tools from Herman and Chomsky's (1988), Laclau and Mouffet's (1985) and Jamesons' (1981) which we had explored before.…”

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“…CDA is also used by Handley (2018) and Ingram and Allen (2019) in their work and echos the theoretical tools from Herman and Chomsky's (1988), Laclau and Mouffet's (1985) and Jamesons' (1981) which we had explored before.…”

Section: Critical Discourse Analysismentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Alternatively, approaches influenced by Gee's (2016) focus on interrogating how career is defined would want to ask about the hidden assumptions and ideological positions which LMI takes up and how this influences notions of career and personal advancement. This sort of tradition draws on ideas such as Herman and Chomsky's (1988) theorising how information may organise content and create system supporting functions. Similarly we will look at Laclau and Mouffet's (1985) use of Gramscian ideas about hegemony to describe how social structures are supported through unchallenged assumptions which are propagated in society.…”

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2021

Higher Education Quarterly

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Staunton

2021

Higher Education Quarterly

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“…Early accounts largely positioned the news media as reproducing power through their coverage ( Hallin, 1986 ; Herman and Chomsky, 1988 ). But more contemporary theories have stressed the way the news media change the nature of politics itself, observed most clearly in the early work on mediatisation ( Mazzoleni and Schulz, 1999 ).…”

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Political communication, press coverage and public interpretation of public health statistics during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK

Lawson

Lugo‐Ocando

2022

European Journal of Communication

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This article examines the way numbers, often concerning risk, were communicated by politicians, covered by the news media and interpreted by the public during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis in the United Kingdom. To explore this topic, we adopted a mixed-methods approach that included content analysis, comparative thematic analysis and a series of focus groups. Whilst coherency and consistency are touted as essentials in public health messaging, our textual analysis highlighted the disconnect between political communication and news media coverage. Whereas the UK government relied on vague references to curves and peaks to underpin a narrative of consistency and certainty in public health policy, the UK news media referred to specific numbers from within and outside the UK to criticise the government's approach as haphazard and lacking. This disconnect gained even more significance during our focus groups. When discussing numbers, participants referred to news media coverage rather than political messaging, using these figures to challenge the timing and nature of the UK lockdown. These findings present a significant critique of the UK government's communication during this health crisis. Instead of putting forward a coherent, homogenous and clear message to the public, the discourse around numbers and risk was diffracted, disconnected and opaque. This was largely due to the competing narratives presented by the news media.

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“…11 c. Although "the democratic postulate is that the media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth," in fact "they serve to mobilize support for the special interests that dominate the state and private activity." 12 These examples do not just charge, respectively, that African-Americans are not treated as equals but enslaved; that too many Americans are subject to penal control; and that the media reinforce existing power structures. Each emphasizes that the normative criterion against which its object falls short can be found within the society under evaluation.…”

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Why immanent critique?

Diehl

2021

European J of Philosophy

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This article defends the principle, central to the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory, that social criticism should rely only on normative criteria that are "immanent" to the society under evaluation. My argument turns on the claim that a normative theory can have a practical aim that places legitimate constraints on its contents. For example, since the aim of advice is to contribute to the advisee's deliberation about what to do, a judgment about what someone should do is good advice only if that person could take it up in her own deliberation. I argue that there is a valuable kind of social criticism analogous to advice, which aims to contribute to the reflection of members of society on how to orient themselves practically to their social world. Drawing on the work of Bernard Williams, I suggest that concrete normative ideals can be so permeated by the needs, social relations, and concepts of one society that they are not real options in a sufficiently different social milieu. Because such criteria cannot serve as a genuine basis for practical orientation to the social world, they are ineligible for use in social criticism of this kind. | INTRODUCTIONNormative theories have a practical role to play in human life: we can use them to choose and assess our actions and social institutions. Some philosophers hold that the practical role of normative theories can provide, not just reason to construct them, but legitimate constraints on their contents. According to Bernard Williams, the practical role of ethical theory is to guide an agent's deliberation about how to live and her corresponding action. Since this role requires that the agent believe the theory, an adequate ethical theory cannot be self-effacing, cannot require one to disbelieve it, even if maintaining false ethical beliefs would have better consequences. 1 According to John Rawls, a theory of justice should provide "a mutually acceptable point of view from which citizens' claims… can be adjudicated" in the ideally just society it describes-a role which requires it to be held by, and guide the reasoning and

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Manufacturing Consent

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Exploring critical perspectives on labour market information through the lens of elite graduate recruitment

Exploring critical perspectives on labour market information through the lens of elite graduate recruitment

Political communication, press coverage and public interpretation of public health statistics during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK

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