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Amerikansk journalistik i forandring

3 gæsteforelæsninger ved professor Kevin Barnhurst

Lokale 5.2.49a, Københavns Universitet Amager

Njalsgade 80, 2300 København S

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Tirsdag 17. februar kl. 10,00: Blah-Blah-Blah News

The U.S. news media are now struggling to survive. What changes in content brought them to the current crisis? Over the past century, workers have been producing longer, more abstract and opinionated news reports in print, television, and radio. This presentation gives an overview of the New Long Journalism project, a series of quantitative content analyses designed to measure the occupational and cultural ideology behind the news stories journalists produce.

Tirsdag 24. marts kl. 10,00: News Workers Claim Power
(Kevin Barnhurst & Richard Doherty)

The environment sustains daily life, but U.S. news organizations lack an environmental beat. How do media workers depict the natural world when the only routine coverage of nature is in frequent weather reports? This presentation summarizes a content analysis of U.S. local television which reveals that weather-casters tend to use small-talk, technology, and visuals to assert their authority over nature, an occupational move that is also ideological: it reveals the power of journalism.

Torsdag 2. april kl. 14,00: Communities vs. Media Visibility

News media coverage also influences the fate of different communities. What happens under the new long journalism to a newly visible minority group? This presentation delivers insights about the fate of sexual minorities (lesbian, gay, and allies), which became regular U.S. news in the 1980s. The Media/Queered Project is an on-line site and book created to explore minority representation and the gains and losses inherent in media visibility.

About Kevin Barnhurst

Kevin G. Barnhurst (Ph.D., University of Amsterdam ) is Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago , and 2008-2010 Chair of the ICA Political Communication Division.
His research in media studies includes quantitative content analyses of news texts and politics; cross-national sociological narrative fieldwork among young adult audiences; visual studies of group representation in the media, especially sexual minorities; and historical analyses of changing media forms in relation to democracy and public life. He has published The Form of News, A History (2002, with John Nerone), Seeing the Newspaper (1994) and Media Queered: Visibility and its Discontents (2007, editor).

Arrangør: Satsningsområdet Kulturens Medialisering, Institut for Medier, Erkendelse og Formidling, Københavns Universitet