Marxist approaches to media studies: The British experience

Becker, Samuel L.

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“…Because events, in and of themselves, do not signify, they must be placed in symbolic form, a choice of a set of codes or symbols that when chosen, delimits the potential range of meaning of the events for the receiver. We agree with Becker's (1984) conclusion that because very language, every symbol, coincides with an ideology, the choice of a set of symbols is an ideological choice that cannot be avoided in human communication. To suggest, as some do, that this is a process peculiar to capitalist societies, is more a reflection of a political rather than scientific position.…”

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Influence of ideology in news reporting case study ofNew York Times'coverage of student demonstrations in China and South Korea¹

Kobland

Du²,

Kwon

1992

Asian Journal of Communication

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Influence of ideology in news reporting case study ofNew York Times'coverage of student demonstrations in China and South Korea¹

Kobland

Du²,

Kwon

1992

Asian Journal of Communication

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“…This would be what Murdock and Golding (1977) urged to Marxist scholars to discover and analyze the occupational norms which derive from the assumptions and propositions that comprise the ruling ideology in media output (e.g. Becker, 1984).…”

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Narative journalism in the contemporary newsroom

Shim

2014

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This study examines the journalistic discourse in American trade publications toward a storytelling format, competitive in contemporary daily papers, which has long been considered as not appropriate for objective news writing. Thomas Kuhn's concept of 'paradigm' was employed in examining and analyzing narrative discourse in trade journals. The outcome of text-analysis revealed that assenters in narrative news writing outnumbered the dissenters; narrative upholders have vividly attempted to construct a friendly perspective toward a storytelling format by eulogizing the prose style, battering the old form of news production, and distancing the previous literary movement from contemporary narrative news writing. The author concludes that the change of journalistic perception toward the narrative style documents the hierarchical relationship between the occupational ideology and the market ideology within which the journalistic paradigm of news writing can be modified and replaced when the established one -the inverted pyramid news writing -fails to satisfy the concerns of the media industry.

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“…Rather, she calls for the transformation of science, "the renunciation of the division of emotional and intellectual labor that maintains science as a male preserve" (p. 178). Becker (1984) also points to a growing realization among Marxists that not all research questions can be answered via qualitative approaches. Marxist-influenced feminists such as Graham (1983) acknowledge the important political and scientific consciousness-raising role survey data have played.…”

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Feminist theories and media studies

Steeves

1987

Critical Studies in Mass Communication

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This essay discusses the assumptions that ground radical, liberal, and socialist feminist theoretical frameworks, and reviews and critiques feminist media research. I argue that liberal feminism, which characterizes much U.S. mainstream media research, speaks only to white, heterosexual, middle and upper class women and is incapable of addressing most women's concerns. Radical and structuralist feminist communication scholars, however, tend to focus exclusively on texts and often ignore important contextual considerations. I conclude that socialist feminism offers the greatest potential for a comprehensive framework to address women's devaluation in communication but that much more theoretical and empirical work still needs to be done. Finally, I encourage the recent tendency among feminist communication scholars to ignore disciplinary boundaries and draw freely on literary, film, and speech studies, as well as mass communication and feminist theory.

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Marxist approaches to media studies: The British experience

Cited by 49 publications

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Influence of ideology in news reporting case study ofNew York Times'coverage of student demonstrations in China and South Korea¹

Influence of ideology in news reporting case study ofNew York Times'coverage of student demonstrations in China and South Korea¹

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Feminist theories and media studies

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Influence of ideology in news reporting case study ofNew York Times'coverage of student demonstrations in China and South Korea¹

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