Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model and the circulation of journalism in the digital landscape

Bødker, Henrik

doi:10.1080/15295036.2016.1227862

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“…The interpretation of a text will vary from individual to individual, influenced by their life experiences and social context. 49 However, the results suggest that when the language in articles encouraged readers to view the person as ‘other’ – for example, due to their ‘crazed’ violence – it was more likely to also reduce their identity to their diagnosis (i.e. by referring to individuals as ‘schizophrenics’).…”

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Stigma: a linguistic analysis of the UK red-top tabloids press’ representation of schizophrenia

Bowen

Kinderman

Cooke

2019

Perspect Public Health

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Aims: Media representations of mental health problems may influence readers’ understanding of, and attitude towards, people who have received psychiatric diagnoses. Negative beliefs and attitudes may then lead to discriminatory behaviour, which is understood as stigma. This study explored the language used in popular national newspapers when writing about schizophrenia and considered how this may have contributed to the processes of stigmatisation towards people with this diagnosis. Methods: Using corpus linguistic methods, a sample of newspaper articles over a 24-month period that mentioned the word ‘schizophrenia’ was compared with a similar sample of articles about diabetes. This enabled a theory-driven exploration of linguistic characteristics to explore stigmatising messages, while supported by statistical tests (log-likelihood) to compare the data sets and identify words with a high relative frequency. Results: Analysis of the ‘schizophrenia’ data set identified that overtly stigmatising language (e.g. ‘schizo’) was relatively infrequent, but that there was frequent use of linguistic signatures of violence. Articles frequently used graphic language referring to acts of violence, descriptions of violent acts, implements used in violence, identity labels and exemplars of well-known individuals who had committed violent acts. The word ‘schizophrenic’ was used with a high frequency ( n = 108) and most commonly to name individuals who had committed acts of violence. Discussion: The study suggests that while the press has largely avoided the use of words that press guidance has steered them away from (e.g. ‘schizo’ and ‘psycho’), they still use a range of graphic language to present people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia as frighteningly ‘other’ and as prone to violence. This repetition of negative stereotypical messages may well contribute to the processes of stigmatisation many people who experience psychosis have to contend with.

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Stigma: a linguistic analysis of the UK red-top tabloids press’ representation of schizophrenia

Bowen

Kinderman

Cooke

2019

Perspect Public Health

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“…In recent years, scholars such as Bødker (2016) have explored the encoding/decoding model and its application social media communication, particularly the dissemination of news stories and their consumption as commodities. News as a commodity on social media circulates through the interpretative strategies of readers.…”

Section: News Communication and News Consumptionmentioning

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“…News as a commodity on social media circulates through the interpretative strategies of readers. Bødker (2016) states that on social media platforms, processes of meaning-making (even if very superficial) are merging with the circulation of commodity form in the way that, for instance, a simple click on 'like' (at an article or at somebody else's comment to the article) will make the product visible to somebody else. (p. 415) Bødker expands on Hall's initial theorisation, in effect decentralising ideas around how meaning and culture are circulated in society through social media.…”

Section: News Communication and News Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(p. 415) Bødker expands on Hall's initial theorisation, in effect decentralising ideas around how meaning and culture are circulated in society through social media. This, Bødker (2016) argues, alters 'how content is circulated and ascribed meaning but also how raw' events are transformed into news' (p. 420). Bødker says that Hall's idea of circulation is enriched by social media participants' interventions in contemporary digital journalism -activities that partially offset the historically dominant-hegemonic voice of political establishments in news media (Sender and Decherney, 2016: 383).…”

Section: News Communication and News Consumptionmentioning

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Representation of news related to culturally diverse population in Australian media

Rodrigues

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Paradies

2019

Journalism

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The Australian media market has fragmented with audiences accessing news from various sources (mainstream media and/or social media) on a variety of platforms. In this fragmented market, we examine the media coverage of high-profile multicultural and transnational events and issues during a 6-month period, which potentially has adverse impact on social cohesion by contributing to negative attitudes towards minority communities. The article outlines outcomes of a classical content analysis of news and commentary available on Australian mainstream news sites, and a sentiment analysis of Twitter conversations around the same topics. We use Stuart Hall’s encoding decoding model to explain the outcomes of the two content analyses and consider the news coverage and social media news conversations of these prominent events/issues from the perspective of culturally diverse Australian audiences.

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“…Henrik Bødker has recently, rightly so, pointed out that one should be cautious not to buy in on Hall’s distinctions between moments of ‘production/circulation’ and ‘distribution/consumption’. The emergence of social media has demonstrated that moments of acquisition may conflate severely with moments of production (Bødker 2016, 415). This does not, however, eliminate the potential divergence between encoding and decoding.…”

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The Fourth Estate: The construction and place of silence in the public sphere

Hansen

2018

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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The main narratives of prevailing ideas of the Fourth Estate were articulated in the era of traditional mass media, and these traditional narratives are challenged by the changing media landscapes. This raises the question whether traditional narratives of the Fourth Estate should be maintained. We will argue – through a close reading of Derrida’s reflections on the relationship between communicative significance and silence, combined with a deliberative ideal for democracy – that the new structures of communication call for a Fourth Estate that focuses on creating spaces for flexible structures of silence in the public sphere. The Fourth Estate has an obvious assignment of counteracting problematic structures of silence (if certain important voices are not being heard). In this article, we will, however, bring out assignments of creating spaces of silence in the public sphere: by (a) silencing certain dominant voices, (b) making room for an increased lack of answers and (c) creating an awareness of the insufficiencies of the public spheres.

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Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model and the circulation of journalism in the digital landscape

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Stigma: a linguistic analysis of the UK red-top tabloids press’ representation of schizophrenia

Stigma: a linguistic analysis of the UK red-top tabloids press’ representation of schizophrenia

Representation of news related to culturally diverse population in Australian media

The Fourth Estate: The construction and place of silence in the public sphere

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