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Nation speaking unto nation? Newspapers and national identity in the devolved UK
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In this article, a content analysis of 2,500 sampled articles, together with qualitative comparison of different editions of the same newspaper titles and interviews with editors and journalists are used to show the extent and nature of ‘national’ frames of reference in newspapers in England and Scotland.Abstract:
There are two problems with the existing account of the relationship between newspapers and national identity in the UK. The first is that although it is widely assumed that the mass media are central to the reproduction and evolution of national identity this has never been empirically demonstrated. The second is that exactly what comprises the relevant ‘national’ context in the UK is unclear. Content analysis of 2,500 sampled articles, together with qualitative comparison of different editions of the same newspaper titles and interviews with editors and journalists are used to show the extent and nature of ‘national’ frames of reference in newspapers in England and Scotland. Paradoxically, devolution may have reduced the spatial diversity of news stories in the press in England and Scotland.read more
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What does ‘we’ mean?: National deixis in the media
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The Institutional Logic of Images of the Poor and Welfare Recipients.
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The Institutional Logic of Images of the Poor and Welfare Recipients. A Comparative Study of British, Swedish and Danish Newspapers
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Cultural capital in an understated nation: the case of Scotland.
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Reflecting on a critical engagement with banal nationalism – reply to Skey
TL;DR: Skey as discussed by the authors argues that the very notion of a uniform, homogenous national audience is based on a top-down model which views ordinary people as passively receiving media messages, and he suggests that making such an assumption closes down our analysis where it should begin.
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