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Gender Mainstreaming In Journalism Education, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Gender Mainstreaming In Journalism Education, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
In a time of swift technological changes in the news media, much of journalism education is focused on preparing students for careers in a new media landscape instead of focusing on gender or other diversity issues. For example, Pavlik (2013, p.213) argued in a recent article that a curriculum that ‘emphasized innovation and digital media entrepreneurship is one of the keys to a robust professional future for the field and students seeking a media career’. Even so, Pavlik (2013, p.217) recognised that most programmes in media education are holding on to an outdated professional model of journalism and mass communication, …
Selective Amnesia And Racial Transcendence In News Coverage Of President Obama’S Inauguration, Kristen Hoerl
Selective Amnesia And Racial Transcendence In News Coverage Of President Obama’S Inauguration, Kristen Hoerl
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
The mainstream press frequently characterized the election of President Barack Obama the first African American US President as the realization of Martin Luther King's dream, thus crafting a postracial narrative of national transcendence. I argue that this routine characterization of Obama's election functions as a site for the production of selective amnesia, a form of remembrance that routinely negates and silences those who would contest hegemonic narratives of national progress and unity.
Social Changes In South Africa: The Possibilities Of Public Journalism And Development Journalism, Margaretha Geertsema
Social Changes In South Africa: The Possibilities Of Public Journalism And Development Journalism, Margaretha Geertsema
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
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The Regionalization Of Global News: A Case Study Of Cnn Interactive, Margaretha Geertsema
The Regionalization Of Global News: A Case Study Of Cnn Interactive, Margaretha Geertsema
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
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Monstrous Youth In Suburbia: Disruption And Recovery Of The American Dream, Kristen Hoerl
Monstrous Youth In Suburbia: Disruption And Recovery Of The American Dream, Kristen Hoerl
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
Although the American Dream myth idealizes youth who grow up in suburbia as culturetypes of imminent success, the Columbine High School shootings demonstrated that all not suburban youth will grow up to succeed. The extensive news media coverage of the tragedy reflects broader anxieties about the declining status of the suburbs in American society. In the wake of the shootings, the news media created a myth of monstrous youth in suburbia that functioned to repair suburbanites’ waning faith in the myth of the American Dream.