Black role models and the news

Moore, Kerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7520-787X and Jewell, John 2012. Black role models and the news. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics 9 (2/3) , n/a.

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Abstract

This chapter critically explores the news and journalistic discourses surrounding the concept of the role model in the UK. It draws upon news content and semi-structured interviews with journalists from a wider study commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government exploring the media image of Black young men and boys in 2009-10. Analysis demonstrates negatively stigmatising discourses at play in role model news and polarised attitudes towards role models among journalists’ reflections. Post-Marxist discourse theory is employed to argue that rather than challenging the complex social inequalities facing young Black men as recent government policy suggests, role modelling as a ‘technology of the self’ is likely to articulate neoliberal logic and reinforce existing social inequalities

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Uncontrolled Keywords:	role models; young Black men; news discourse; post-Marxism; neo-liberalism
Publisher:	Abramis Academic
ISSN:	1742-0105
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2023 02:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/47829

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