Boosterism as Banishment

Gutsche, Robert

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2014.924730

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“…Applying Hyatt's (2013) Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Framework this article provides a transparent, systematic analysis of UK Government impact investing discourse, identifying its underlying justifications and the mechanisms by which it has boostered the SIIM imaginary as the necessary, desirable welfare future. As Gutsche (2015: 499–502) identifies, while ‘boosterism’ is concerned with positive representations to sell programmes and policies, it is more than marketing froth. It typically carries within it the presumptions and preferences of a broader political-economic project (McCann, 2013: 8).…”

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Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK

Wiggan

2018

J. Soc. Pol.

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Under the Conservative-Liberal Coalition Government and the Conservative Government that took office in 2015, policy measures were introduced to develop a Social Impact Investment Market that harnesses private finance to invest in services to achieve social and financial outcomes. This nascent market is of growing interest amongst social scientists (Bryan and Rafferty, 2014; Whitfield, 2015; McHugh et al., 2013; Dowling, 2017; Edmiston and Nicholls, 2017), but little attention has been given to interrogating related UK Government discourse. The originality of this paper is its contribution to addressing this ‘discourse gap’; enhancing our understanding of the development and representation of impact investment in the UK. Using Hyatt's (2013a) Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Framework, a rigorous critical examination of UK Coalition and Conservative Government impact investment discourse between 2011 and 2016 is undertaken. The significance of this work lies in its contextualisation and deconstruction of UK Government texts to identify and unpack how distinct rationales, justifications and legitimations draw on and (re)produce a Broken Britain-Big Society narrative (Wiggan, 2011; Dowling and Harvie, 2014; Smith and Jones, 2015) to ‘policy booster’ financialised reconfiguration of the welfare state as the route to a better society.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK

Wiggan

2018

J. Soc. Pol.

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“…Rural journalists have said that local media should boost and advocate for the local community, suggesting that they align with a more active, interventionist role than the distant observer role journalists commonly share (Guth, 2015;Hanitzsch et al, 2019). However, critics of journalistic boosterism contend that it can conversely function as a form of social control (Gutsche, 2015). This identity can influence how rural journalists choose to report on controversial topics such as hate groups and hate speech, where they might delay or avoid reporting to protect their relationships with sources (Perreault, Moon, Walsh, & Perreault, 2022).…”

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Scooped by the town drunk”: COVID-19 as an actor in the rural journalist’s network

Mari,

Perreault,

Walsh

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Journalists serving rural communities are crucial sources of information across the U.S.; they also face challenges and opportunities unlike those of their peers at large urban outlets. In this study, we take the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to examine how these journalists define their group identities. We focus on local news creators to ask: How has COVID-19 influenced the identities of small-town and rural journalists in the U.S.? Using an approach informed by actor-network theory and social identity theory, we analyze interviews conducted during the height of the pandemic with 35 rural and small-town journalists across the Midwest, Appalachia, and Gulf South regions to understand the effects of COVID-19 on journalistic identities. We find that the pandemic disrupted the newsgathering process, depunctualizing it in a way that highlighted the centrality of relationships to the rural journalist’s identity. First, by physically distancing journalists from their sources, COVID-19 highlighted the importance of in-person connections. Second, by increasing the amount of contentious news available to report on, COVID-19 highlighted the tension between preserving news values and protecting community relationships. Our findings highlight the far-reaching effects of one actant in a network and the ways journalists in crisis situations negotiate conflicting pressures.

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“…'Journalists negotiate complex sets of social and economic pressures within ideological frameworks of dominant culture that shape journalists' interpretations and presentations of news.' (Gutsche, 2015) Crucially, if their news sources are to hold onto their readerships and the reporters are to hold onto their jobs, they must engage their news audiences and that means reporting events in a manner that readers, listeners and viewers accept. News source owners and editors worry about offending political and economic elites and public opinion in the cities they serve by reporting the news in a manner at odds with their values.…”

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Windshield bias is real: 2019 news coverage of pedestrian traffic fatalities in the United States

Hickman

2023

TSR

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Framing pedestrian traffic fatalities episodically rather than thematically, attributing responsibility to pedestrians for their own deaths and non-agential descriptions of traffic crashes reflects windshield bias. Pedestrian traffic fatality rates increased dramatically in the U.S. over the previous decade. Findings from this content analysis of 2019 U.S. news coverage supports conclusions that windshield bias is national in scope, varies between cities in the Sun Belt and Frost Belt, and is associated with reduced walkability and greater partisan segregation of cities. The 2016 vote for Republican Donald Trump was also positively associated with episodic framing. An inverse association between word length and windshield bias was also established. The data set analyzed included 366 news articles drawn from 78 news sources in 74 cities located in 30 states.

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Boosterism as Banishment

Cited by 23 publications

References 30 publications

Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK

Policy Boostering the Social Impact Investment Market in the UK

Scooped by the town drunk”: COVID-19 as an actor in the rural journalist’s network

Windshield bias is real: 2019 news coverage of pedestrian traffic fatalities in the United States

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