TY - JOUR

T1 - Boosterism as banishment

T2 - identifying the power function of local, business news and coverage of city spaces

AU - Gutsche Jr, Robert

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - 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 prosperities—functions 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.

AB - 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 prosperities—functions 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.

KW - banishment

KW - boosterism

KW - critical discourse analysis

KW - geography

KW - local news

KW - place

U2 - 10.1080/1461670X.2014.924730

DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2014.924730

M3 - Journal article

VL - 16

SP - 497

EP - 512

JO - Journalism Studies

JF - Journalism Studies

SN - 1461-670X

IS - 4

ER -