The Global Village in Atlanta: A Textual Analysis of Olympic News Coverage for Children in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Newspaper reporting aimed at children has proliferated yet children's news has seldom been the subject of study. This project begins to fill that void by examining the “News for Kids” (NFK) section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It examines international news reporting for children and sp...

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Published in:Journalism & mass communication quarterly 1999-12, Vol.76 (4), p.699-712
Main Authors: Lester-Roushanzamir, Elli P., Raman, Usha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advertising
Audiences
Brand loyalty
Children & youth
Culture
Media coverage
News media
News Reporting
Olympic games
Olympic games-1998
Parent Participation
Parents & parenting
Periodicals
Political Socialization
Printed Materials
Programming
Social Behavior
Surgeons General
Television news
Television Viewing
Text analysis
Young Adults
Youth
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Summary:Newspaper reporting aimed at children has proliferated yet children's news has seldom been the subject of study. This project begins to fill that void by examining the “News for Kids” (NFK) section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It examines international news reporting for children and specifically the representations of international others as they were portrayed in reporting on the centennial Olympic games. Does news for children structure the “other” into a hierarchy of difference from “us ?” Our findings suggest that powerful dominant discourses emerge which form a systematic strategy of representation. Since representation is one of the ways in which social meanings (e.g., preconditions for the functioning of social practices) are produced and circulated in society, this textual analysis helps break into over-determined discourses by identifying ideological constructions within the news reporting.
ISSN:1077-6990
2161-430X
DOI:10.1177/107769909907600407