Making Progress? Reproducing Hegemony Through Discourses of "Sustainable Development" in the Australian News Media. Issue 6 (18th August 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Making Progress? Reproducing Hegemony Through Discourses of "Sustainable Development" in the Australian News Media. Issue 6 (18th August 2018)
- Main Title:
- Making Progress? Reproducing Hegemony Through Discourses of "Sustainable Development" in the Australian News Media
- Authors:
- Yacoumis, Paul
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: While numerous studies have investigated discourses of "sustainable development" in a variety of institutional and academic contexts, media discourses on this issue have remained largely unexamined. But considering the intertwined nature of media and society, the construction of sustainable development in the news may be an important factor shaping future ecological and social outcomes. Proceeding from the thesis that the news is a site in which hegemony may be reproduced, this paper critically analyses discourses used to construct sustainable development in news texts published over the 10-year period 2004–2013 across the eight most widely circulated newspapers in Australia. The findings show that sustainable development news is confined to a narrow range of discourses that largely serve to perpetuate the status quo, which is broadly consistent with the media hegemony thesis. Finally, I discuss the implications of these findings, propose possible explanations, and explore avenues for future research.
- Is Part Of:
- Environmental communication. Volume 12:Issue 6(2018)
- Journal:
- Environmental communication
- Issue:
- Volume 12:Issue 6(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 12, Issue 6 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0012-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 840
- Page End:
- 853
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08-18
- Subjects:
- Sustainable development -- critical discourse analysis -- hegemony -- mass media -- news discourse -- Australia
Communication in the environmental sciences -- Periodicals
333.7 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/17524032.2017.1308405 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1752-4032
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