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    Bruised by the Invisible Hand. A critical examination of journalistic representations and the naturalization of neoliberal ideology in times of Industrial crisis.
    (2016-09-12) Jacobsson, Diana
    Abstract This dissertation revolves around questions that are central to the field of media and journalism research, questions about journalism and ideology, about journalistic agency and autonomy, and the room for maneuver and vulnerability of journalism today. The purpose of the study is to examine how neoliberal discourse operates in news media reporting of industrial crisis. Departing from critical theory and critical discourse analysis, the study suggests that how neoliberal discourse operates in the journalistic understanding of the relationship between state, labor and capital, becomes visible in the way that questions of rights and responsibilities connected to workers, politics and the business elite are shaped in a situation where mass unemployment is the expected outcome. The study therefore focuses on the negotiation and correspondence between the neoliberal and journalistic logic and comprises three empirical analyses of the journalistic representation of the working class, politics and business elite in the news coverage of the closing of a large Swedish factory in the early 2010s. The first substudy makes a historical comparison with news coverage during the textile industry crisis in the late 1970s and draws attention to how news journalism today dismantles the working class by the construction of discourses that prevent political and collective action. The second substudy identifies a firm neoliberal posture promoted by the right-wing government in conjunction with the first signs of crisis – and the disappearance of the question of political responsibility in the later news coverage concerning the closure of the factory. The third substudy illuminates how the clear labor perspective in the journalistic construction during the textile industry crisis in the 1970s is replaced by a dominant market perspective and a very lenient journalistic posture towards the economic elite in today’s news reporting. Taken together, the study suggests that the way the relation between state, labor and capital is understood and expressed in the representation of the working class, politics and the economic elite indicates a naturalization of the neoliberal ideology with few avenues for another understanding of rights and responsibilities in an industrial crisis. The study points to an ideological closure where alternative interpretations and representations seem to be beyond the reach or ability of mainstream journalism.
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    Från politisk arena till lokal marknadsplats. En studie av innehållet i den borgerliga landsortspressen 1927-2007
    (2009-03-25T12:09:35Z) Jacobsson, Diana; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik och masskommunikation; Göteborg University/Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
    Titel: Från politisk arena till lokal marknadsplats: En studie av den borgerliga landsortspressens lokala innehåll 1927-2007 Författare: Diana Jacobsson Kurs: Påbyggnadskursen, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap Handledare: Monika Djerf-Pierre Termin: Vårterminen 2008 Syfte: Studien avser att besvara frågan vad som fokuseras i landsortspressens lokala rapportering och hur utvecklingen rörande det lokala innehållet har sett ut under perioden 1927-2007 Metod: Etnografisk, kvalitativ textanalys Material: De lokala morgontidningarna Barometern, Borås Tidning, Jönköpings-Posten, Nya Wermlands-Tidningen, Sundsvalls Tidning, utgåvan den första onsdagen i februari vart tionde år 1927-2007, nio nummer av varje titel Huvudresultat: De lokala nyheterna i den borgerliga landsortspressen har utvecklats – från att under den första halvan av 1900-talet bestå av korta notiser som befinner sig i skuggan av artiklar som behandlar internationella och nationella händelser – till att tydligt dominera tidningarnas innehåll. Varje tidnings texter är på ett märkbart sätt en produkt av sin tid. Utifrån hur innehållet har förändrats under den undersökta perioden menar jag att tidningarna har gått från att vara ett partipolitiskt organ med ”global” blick och världshändelser i fokus – till att bli en produkt med en uppsjö av oförargliga lokala nyheter som verkar i marknadens tjänst.
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