[Linganth] Discourse Lab UCLA happening today, join us!

Thu May 7 20:40:36 UTC 2020

*Please join us for a transatlantic edition of UCLA
Anthropology's Discourse Lab on May 7 at 2PM US Pacific Time as we welcome
Dr. Colleen Cotter from Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London,
along with Berkeley journalism professor Bill Drummond (one of the original
founders of NPR's Morning Edition, among many other accolades).  They will
speak on their research highlighted in the abstract below, and end with
some remarks on media coverage of the Covid 19-crisis. Zoom link follows
abstract. For security, there is a waiting room so please be patient as we
manually admit people and don't hesitate to identify yourself. Thank you. *

*Central and marginal aspects of news craft and genre form*

*Colleen Cotter, Queen Mary University of London*

* (with Bill Drummond, UC Berkeley School of Journalism)*

I look at the role of social consensus in the recognition of genre forms in
the news industry, examining contemporaneous news reporting examples that
show different discourse outcomes in the “postfoundational” social world
for whom the prestige of news craft is key. I compare stories in “legacy”
journalism of the digital and print kind (HuffPost and New York Times) with
the San Quentin News, the oldest prison newspaper in the US.

These different production formats and discourse outcomes speak to the
stable, fractal, and surprisingly evanescent nature of genre forms – in
this case the “hard news” story – and how elements of news craft
(Cotter 2010) are variously interpreted in their construction. The NYT and
the SQN function as a discursive “minimal pair,” showing what remains
central to news story content (reporting routines) and what varies
(implicit social value) and loses cachet. The technology-restricted prison
context of the SQN newsroom becomes just another example of (old-school)
ink-and-paper community journalism (Drummond 2020). At the same time, the
establishment context of the NYT and HuffPost becomes discursively
compromised by change around it.

The San Quentin setup, while socially marginal, reflects central values of
journalism in its story forms and demonstrates the direct link that media
have with their audience. The NYT operation, while socially central, is
itself becoming marginalized in the broader media context as traditional
news stories assume less importance in everyday meaning-making, making them
less recognizable as a genre form and their attendant social impact less
visible.

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Norma Mendoza-Denton, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of California at Los Angeles
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