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Adnews Fall 2009, Stacy C. James
Adnews Fall 2009, Stacy C. James
College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications
This is the Fall 2009 edition of the AEJMC's (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) Advertising Division AdNews newsletter. It features information, articles and images of Ad Division members at the annual summer convention as well as other events throughout the year. The newsletter comes out three times a year.
Refugees In The News: A Representative Anecdote Of Identification/Division In Refugee Media Coverage, Sarah Steimel
Refugees In The News: A Representative Anecdote Of Identification/Division In Refugee Media Coverage, Sarah Steimel
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
A refugee worker conflict at the JBS Swift plant in Grand Island, Nebraska serves as a representative anecdote of the dominant media discourses about refugees in the United States. This study adopts a critical cultural perspective and applies Burke’s (1969) concepts of identification and division to the ways in which refugees are described in comparison to other immigrants in the media coverage of the conflict. These identifications and divisions generate ideologically powerful official roles for refugees in American society. This study finds that refugees, especially refugees who are also Muslim, are defined in the media coverage of the Grand Island …