“A Future to Believe in”: Introducing Varieties of Advocacy Journalism. The Examples Sustainability and the Sanders Campaign
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In: Journalism Studies, Vol. 21, No. 9, 03.07.2020, p. 1261-1283.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - “A Future to Believe in”
T2 - Introducing Varieties of Advocacy Journalism. The Examples Sustainability and the Sanders Campaign
AU - Laws, Norman
AU - Chojnicka, Joanna
PY - 2020/7/3
Y1 - 2020/7/3
N2 - In this paper we argue that if social constructivism theory is to be taken seriously, the distinction between reportive journalism and advocacy journalism cannot hold anymore. We propose to use another working distinction between progressive (and also regressive) advocacy journalism, postulating forms of social change, and status quo advocacy journalism, which, directly or indirectly, postulates lack of change. To illustrate this distinction, we use two different examples that may seem unrelated. However, as we try to show, they are overlapping and intermingled. These examples are the different notions of sustainability and the coverage of the Sanders campaign during US primaries in 2016.
AB - In this paper we argue that if social constructivism theory is to be taken seriously, the distinction between reportive journalism and advocacy journalism cannot hold anymore. We propose to use another working distinction between progressive (and also regressive) advocacy journalism, postulating forms of social change, and status quo advocacy journalism, which, directly or indirectly, postulates lack of change. To illustrate this distinction, we use two different examples that may seem unrelated. However, as we try to show, they are overlapping and intermingled. These examples are the different notions of sustainability and the coverage of the Sanders campaign during US primaries in 2016.
KW - Advocacy journalism
KW - Bernie Sanders
KW - critical theory
KW - journalism
KW - social constructivism
KW - sustainability
KW - Sustainability Governance
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082834426&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1742773
DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1742773
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85082834426
VL - 21
SP - 1261
EP - 1283
JO - Journalism Studies
JF - Journalism Studies
SN - 1461-670X
IS - 9
ER -