There's No Place Like Home

Gutsche, Robert

doi:10.1080/17512786.2013.778602

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“…Community building is an especially important ideological function of the press at the local level (Kaniss 1991;Robinson and DeShano 2011), particularly in terms of what has become known as journalistic boosterism-everyday news that highlights the positive qualities of local environments, that profiles the successes of local personalities, and that promotes geography's inherent promise for economic and cultural wealth (Burd 1977;Gutsche 2014a).…”

Section: Building Community In Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boosterism as Banishment

Gutsche¹

2014

Journalism Studies

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This paper performs a qualitative critical discourse analysis of 52 local news articles from four Florida (United States) newspapers to identify and expand the notion of journalistic boosterism. In the paper, I argue that boosterism-everyday news that promotes mediatized notions of a community's dominant traditions, dominant identities, and potential for future prosperitiesfunctions as a form of social control by performing, as banishment, an act that secludes particular social groups from participating in community spaces, social roles, and storytelling. This paper conceptualizes journalistic boosterism as operating via a duality of community building and social banishment, a practice that continues to spread across the globe.

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Section: Building Community In Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boosterism as Banishment

Gutsche¹

2014

Journalism Studies

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“…With images and videos peppered among the paragraphs, Black Hawk Down became the Snow Fall of its time, attracting hundreds of thousands of users and winning the Editor & Publisher Award for best journalistic series on the Internet. Today’s long-form journalism continues to emerge at a dynamic time of technological advancement in the news industry, of conceptual understandings of visual studies, and of journalism as a ritualized form of storytelling (Gutsche, 2014; Manoff, 1986). Viewing the news as a ritual that employs drama, conflict, and characterization of news sources reveals the means by which journalists (and audiences) embed social and cultural meanings related to news events (Schudson, 2003).…”

Section: Multimedia In the Context Of Journalistic Storytellingmentioning

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“…Two packages in particular represent how loops worked to bring the user into the environment to experience the story alongside the main sources-as-characters (Gutsche, 2014; Schudson, 2005). Trials , published by The Wall Street Journal , is an extensive investigative piece on a group of families and doctors who go to extreme lengths to secure treatment for a rare childhood disease.…”

Section: Literary Modes Of Expression: the Storytelling Power Of Multimedia Integrationmentioning

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The digital animation of literary journalism

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Since The New York Times published Snow Fall in 2012, media organizations have produced a growing body of similar work characterized by the purposeful integration of multimedia into long-form journalism. In this article, we argue that just as the literary journalists of the 1960s attempted to write the nonfiction equivalent of the great American novel, journalists of the 2010s are using digital tools to animate literary journalism techniques. To evaluate whether this emerging genre represents a new era of literary journalism and to what extent it incorporates new techniques of journalistic storytelling, we analyze 50 long-form multimedia journalism packages published online from August 2012 to December 2013. We argue that this new wave of literary journalism is characterized by executing literary techniques through multiple media and represents a gateway to linear storytelling in the hypertextual environment of the Web.

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“…Instead, journalists appeared to rely on official sources and other neighborhood ‘outsiders’ to characterize the neighborhood as an extension of inner-city ghettos. Therefore, as a journalist and researcher, I became most interested in place-making as a journalistic function (for example, see Gutsche, 2014c; Hallin, 1986; Zelizer, 1993) to add a deeper understanding of the cultural and ideological work of news. 3 To explore place-making, I turned to mapping as a visual story to describe and explain everyday life.…”

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News place-making: applying ‘mental mapping’ to explore the journalistic interpretive community

Gutsche

2014

Visual Communication

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Scholarship in visual communications, media, and geography explore how news media assign meanings to environment through narratives of and about place. In this study, however, the author aims to move scholarship from evaluating journalistic place representations to exploring the cultural and ideological processes of how these place representations come to be. Understanding how journalists construct place adds depth to knowledge about news as a social and cultural construction, and contributes to previous research on news place-characterizations. This study enacts a methodology called ‘mental mapping’ and serves as a call for communication scholars to consider such participatory methods. Data for this study come from interviews with 30 participants, including reporters from three newspapers, public officials, and residents of Iowa City, USA. In the end, this study identifies a visual methodology for exploring the role and influence of how journalists work and represent place in the news, a process the author calls news place-making.

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There's No Place Like Home

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Boosterism as Banishment

Boosterism as Banishment

The digital animation of literary journalism

News place-making: applying ‘mental mapping’ to explore the journalistic interpretive community

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