Policing the Crisis

When facts, truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

“…Policing the Crisis and Dick Hebdige's work on subcultural style all used the news as a background arrangement for thinking about more generalized modes of cultural production and the distribution of social and cultural power. 39 It is no surprise, then, that one key initial text on the evolution of British cultural studies, Graeme Turner's British Cultural Studies: An Introduction, used press photographs of Oliver North and Ferdinand Marcos to illustrate culture's broad workings. 40 In one view, much of this scholarship was in effect "a defense of the importance of journalism" because, for one of the first times in British academe, it took the news media seriously.…”

Sourcing Patterns Within British And American Newspaper Coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: The Rise of Non-Elite Primary Definers

“…Egyptian citizens) to the status of 'primary definers' in this instance, buttressing previous studies from Hermida et al (2014) and Van Leuven et al (2015), both of which noted the emergence of regular citizens as important sources of information within media coverage of the 'Arab Spring' protests. Drawing off of Hall et al (1999), this provided the anti-Mubarak opposition protesters with the opportunity to "set the limit for all subsequent discussion by framing what the problem" or issue is. (p. 255).…”

A race to the bottom – prison education and the English and Welsh policy context

“…Competing expectations and the dilemmas associated with them are exacerbated within the English context by a tabloid media disproportionately constructing and demonising lawbreaking as violent, sub-human or parasitic. The English mass media's long-standing capacity to ferment fears about criminals, crime and disorder is well documented (Cohen 1972;Hall et al, 1978;Philo 1990;Davis et al, 2013) with some commentators pointing out how news and fiction concentrate overwhelmingly (and disproportionately) on serious violent crimes (Reiner 2002). Not surprisingly, some policy debates have increasingly focused on the fear of crime as an issue potentially as serious as any crime itself (Ditton and Farrell 2000).…”