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Researching journalism in the digital age
Brian McNair
Professor of Journalism, Media & Communication
The expansion of journalism
Images of the EnemyThe 80s were polarised
times, during which the implicit political divide embodied by the cold war was firmed up by arguably the most ideologically driven government Britain has ever seen.(Guardian)
Dominance/control paradigmElite control and
dominance of media and other cultural institutions produce ‘consensus’ and support for status quo
Predictable outcomes (social stability) based on vertically hierarchical control of information
The propaganda model
‘Brainwashing under freedom’
Glasgow University Media Group
The New Cold War
Images of the Enemy
The Korean Airlines Shoot-down
‘a terrorist act’
Images of the Enemy
Moscow, 1985-86
Intimations of chaos - Chernobyl
The Fall of the Wall & the End of the Soviet
Glasnost, Perestroika & the Soviet Media
Chaos/competitive paradigm
Elites compete with non-elites for access to and impact on the globalised public sphere, which constantly evolves, changing
with each iteration of the cycle
The evolution of the system
cannot be forecast with
certainty
Monica-gate
9/11
Stormy Weather
Cultural Chaos
From control to chaos
Acceleration of information flow (technological)
Proliferation of information sources (technological)
Dissolution of producer-consumer boundary (cultural)
Loss of elite control (political)
Collapse of 20th century media business models (economic)
GM Crops“Parts of the media
have conducted such an extraordinary campaign of distortion, it is hard to know where to begin. Anyone who has dared to raise even the smallest hand in protest is accused of being either corrupt or a Dr Strangelove”(Tony Blair, 1999)
Autism in the news
MMR
Health scare or cause for concern?
The MMR scare
Coverage clearly shaped the way many people understood the issue, and appears to have led to a loss of confidence in the vaccine in Britain
Chaos in the Middle East The instantaneous nature of
how social media communicate self-broadcast ideas, unlimited by publication deadlines and broadcast news slots, explains in part the speed at which these revolutions have unravelled, their almost viral spread across a region. It explains too, the often loose and non-hierarchical organisation of the protest movements unconsciously modelled on the networks of the web.(Peter Beaumont, February 25 2011)
An Introduction To Political Communication
An Introduction To Political Communication
An Introduction To Political Communication
An Introduction To Political Communication
An Introduction To Political Communication
An Introduction To Political Communication