By Felicitas Macgilchrist
ISBN-10: 9027206317
ISBN-13: 9789027206312
Journalism is usually considered the ‘fourth property’ of democracy. This publication means that journalism performs a extra radical position in politics, and explores new methods of puzzling over information media discourse. It develops an method of investigating either hegemonic discourse and discursive fissures, inconsistencies and tensions. by means of analysing overseas information assurance of post-Soviet Russia, together with the Beslan hostage-taking, Gazprom, Litvinenko and human rights matters, it demonstrates the (re)production of the ‘common-sense’ social order within which one specific zone of the area is extra built, civilized and democratic than different parts. although, drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and different post-foundational thinkers, it additionally means that journalism is exactly the positioning the place the instability of this worldwide social order turns into noticeable. The publication will be of curiosity to students of discourse research, journalism and verbal exchange stories, cultural stories and political technological know-how, and to a person drawn to ‘positive’ discourse research and sensible counter-discursive innovations.
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Human rights’ is clearly privileged in the news corpus on the NGO legislation. Almost half the stories (23 of 49) in the original corpus articulate the bill as a threat to ‘human rights’ in Russia (see Extracts 1, 3, 4). Since the news texts refer to a total of 300,000 or 400,000 NGOs registered in Russia evidently not all work in the fields of human rights. Indeed, it has been argued that the NGOs with the strongest support among the Russian public focus on local issues, such as improving wheelchair access to public buildings (Vinogradova 2005).
Although the frequency of a decontextualised word does not say much on its own, frequency and relative frequency can point to signifiers which have been privileged, even if only to be disendorsed and rejected. And they have indeed led to surprising findings. Reading the corpus on the NGO legislation, I noticed immediately the predominance of ‘human rights’ which I return to below. Only through analysing word lists did I see that the more innocuous ‘foreign’ was one of the most frequent words. 3 .
On 21 December, only three of 12 texts (25%) mention the limitations on human rights organisations. The primary focus is on nongovernmental organisations and civil society, and on the Kremlin’s apparent concern that foreign-funded NGOs may help prepare a coloured revolution such as those in Georgia, Ukraine or Kyrgyzstan. On 23 December, nine of fourteen news items (64%) work up the relevance of human rights. Several stories write that ‘human rights organisations’ criti- . ) noted that the term ‘empty signifier’ is dogged by the problem that no satisfactory empirical answer has yet been given to how a particular signifier takes on the role of empty signifier.
Journalism and the Political: Discursive Tensions in News Coverage of Russia by Felicitas Macgilchrist
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