Producing the news, producing the crisis: narrativity, television and news work

The augmented newsbeat: spatial structuring in a Twitterized news ecosystem

“…However, to journalists this immediate anticipation is always connected to forms of sense-making of present and future events in terms of preexistent cultural forms, such as narratives (Jacobs, 1996a(Jacobs, , 1996bSchudson, 2007). …”

Representations of “Mental Illness” in Serbian Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

“…As part of their expressed commitment to highlighting public problems in the service of the community (Jacobs, 1996), the media often offer dramatically exaggerated portrayals of deviant groups, which form a modern demonology, with the effect of reinforcing social order . Here, simply by the successive listing of 'patients with psychosis, alcoholics, drug addicts, and HIV positive patients,' all groups that are typically associated with some form of dangerousness to themselves and others, the dangerousness of these groups is consolidated and their distance from "normal people" intensified.…”

“Out of the Mouths of Babes and Experts”: children's news and what it can teach us about news access and professional mediation

“…A contrasting source-centric, approach, on the other hand, has sought better to acknowledge the vast array of news sources that struggle and compete for news access and how they do so within unequal source fields and with varying resources, social prestige and communication strategies (Anderson 1991;Deacon 2003;Miller & Williams 1993;Schlesinger 1990). A third, more culturalist approach to news access recognises the importance of the news text as itself exerting determining influence on news access and representation whether in terms of story and narrative (Jacobs 1996), myth (Bird and Dardenne 1988) or ritual (Ettema 1990). Collectively, this body of work undoubtedly helps to explain the important features and dynamics of news access.…”