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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 -