Unmasking the Entrepreneur

Jones, Campbell; Spicer, André

doi:10.4337/9781781952689

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“…Yet, in line with findings by Kurpius, Metzgar, and Rowley (2010) and van Kerkhoven and Bakker (2014), there is a sense of precariousness over hyperlocal's viability as either an alternative media scene or in simply "filling the gap" over the long term. For those looking to invest funding or to bring the practice to the attention of policy-makers, they can take comfort that the sector is home to some small business entrepreneurs seeking to grow media businesses that address concerns over media plurality.…”

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Discourses of Enterprise in Hyperlocal Community News in the UK

Harte¹,

Turner

Williams

2016

Journalism Practice

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In recent years, a new wave of hyperlocal community news websites has developed in the United Kingdom (UK), with many taking advantage of new opportunities provided by free open-source publishing platforms. Given the trend in the UK newspaper industry towards closure and retrenchment of their local and regional press titles, it is perhaps understandable that policy-makers have shifted their gaze to these sites. This article examines the viability of hyperlocal news services with a particular focus on those that are independently owned and managed. Such operations often have a longevity that sits in contrast to a number of failed attempts by major media organisations to operate in the hyperlocal space. Yet many of the business models that underpin these sites seem precarious, often benefiting from a degree of self-exploitation. Drawing on 35 interviews with hyperlocal news publishers from across the UK, this article argues that publishers draw upon a civic discourse in order to make sense of their practice. This framing may limit the potential to develop economic sustainability and risks alienating policy-makers keen to work with an idealised "fictive" hyperlocal entrepreneur.

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Discourses of Enterprise in Hyperlocal Community News in the UK

Harte¹,

Turner

Williams

2016

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“…Some claim that the strength of enterprise is explained by its emptiness as a signifier (Jones & Spicer, 2009;Kenny & Scriver, 2012). However the model of enterprise discourse in dilemmatic unity with strategy offered here provides an alternative source of strength of enterprise discourse: its dilemmatic relationship with strategy means that that combined discourse can provide much to talk about while at the same time keeping that talk confined to its dilemmas.…”

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The Power of Words in Tension: Enterprise/Strategy as a Dilemma in Neo-liberalism's Persistence

O'Rourke¹

2014

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“…The lure created by careful, deliberate lexical constructions that utilise words such as endurance, passion, love, commitment, and perseverance (da Costa & Saraiva, 2012) reinforces the appeal of entrepreneurship as an activity to aspire toward. Spicer (2009) andSpicer (2012) noted, however, that the discourse on entrepreneurship is silent on the negative ramifications (both material and psychological) that plague this livelihood. Also of concern is the preoccupation with individual self-advancement through entrepreneurship as opposed to a concern with societal welfare (Berglund & Wigren, 2012).…”

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Phantasmagoria: communicating an illusion of entrepreneurship in South African school textbooks

Maistry

David

2017

Educ. res. soc. change.

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In this article, we examine discourses of entrepreneurship manifest in selected textbooks used in South African primary schools in the postapartheid era. While an attempt was made to purge school textbooks of discriminatory subject matter, the extent to which new powerful discourses have replaced apartheid ideology remains unknown. There is little dispute that school textbook content communicates subliminal messages about the world. Using critical discourse analysis, we reveal constituted and constitutive ideology at work in the textbooks under study. A dominant discourse that emerged was that individuals in society are responsible for their own economic sustainability despite prevailing and historic conditions of oppression and subjugation, and that entrepreneurship is a readily viable way to achieve economic emancipation because it naturally leads to wealth creation. It communicates as a subtle yet deliberate attempt by the state to displace its responsibility for the economic welfare of the individual citizen. The textbooks uncritically legitimate the values of the neoliberal market system. In this paper, we urge the development of a heightened sensitivity when teacher educators, teachers, and learners engage with such ideological persuasions.

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Unmasking the Entrepreneur

Cited by 167 publications

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Discourses of Enterprise in Hyperlocal Community News in the UK

Discourses of Enterprise in Hyperlocal Community News in the UK

The Power of Words in Tension: Enterprise/Strategy as a Dilemma in Neo-liberalism's Persistence

Phantasmagoria: communicating an illusion of entrepreneurship in South African school textbooks

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