Graham Knight
Biographic Data
| ID | 3951302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Knight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Knight |
| SIGNATURE | KNIGHT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Spinning climate change: Corporate and NGO public relations strategies in Canada and the United States
This article examines the role of PR in the debate about global climate change. Seeking to move beyond a focus on PR as just the handmaiden of corporate power, the article documents the fluid role of professionalized communication in terms of its impact on both corporate and NGO actors and their activities, focusing on communication tactics and the influence of PR consultancies. Drawing from the debates around the transformation of the public sph…
Talk of the Enemy: Adversarial Framing and Climate Change Discourse
This article provides a comparative analysis of adversarial framing oriented to reputation discrediting in the context of social movement/counter-movement relations. Website material associated with two Canadian organizations, the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) and DeSmogBlog (DSB), involved on opposite sides of the contention over anthropogenic global warming (AGW), is analysed to examine how each side identifies and frames its adv…
Rethinking public relations
Political strategists, market research firms, think tanks, lobbyists, media advisors, third party mobilizers and 'grassroots' organizers, social media gurus, and other communication specialists have flourished in size and influence and transformed the role of communication in social, political, and economic life. Critics decry the expansion of professionalized communication, impugning the public relations (PR), polling, advertising, and marketing…
The weight of expectation: Cathy Freeman, Legacy, Reconciliation and the Sydney Olympics – A Canadian Perspective
This paper compares French- and English-language Canadian television coverage of Australian Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman during the 2000 Olympics using a narrative framework. The specific focus of the analysis is the representation of Freeman's political identity as an agent and symbol of Aboriginal reconciliation – the struggle for apology, reparatio, and social justice in the light of the history and legacy of colonial oppression and exclus…
Bringing the Local Back In: Trajectory of Contention and the Union Struggle at Kukdong/Mexmode
The conflict in 2001 at the Kukdong (now Mexmode) maquila garment factory is one of the rare cases of success in the wider struggle for independent unionism in Mexico. The success of the struggle, which has attracted scholars interested in the campaigns against sweatshop labour conditions and on behalf of labour internationalism, has been attributed chiefly to the role played by transnational advocacy networks in mobilizing pressure on the global…
The Disappointment Games: Narratives of Olympic Failure in Canada and New Zealand
This article provides a comparative analysis of news narratives of 'disappointment' in Canada and New Zealand in response to the 2000 Olympics. The theoretical framework draws on Luhmann's distinction between cognitive and normative orientations to expectations, contingency, and disappointment. The analysis examines how disappointment was thematized similarly as a decline in relation to past performance, but explained somewhat differently in the …
Framing sweatshops: Nike, global production, and the American news media
This study examines US newspaper coverage of sweatshops, focusing on the case study of Nike (1995–2000) and asking how the coverage was structured, how sweatshops were problematized, and how they were explained. We find that while activists established a measure of definitional control over the coverage, it tended to concentrate on solutions rather than causes, and the source of the problem tended to be rooted in the agency of consumers rather th…
Prospective News: Press pre-framing of the 1996 Ontario public service strike
Analysis of press coverage leading up to the 1996 Ontario Public Service strike indicates how framing of the negotiations between the Ontario government and the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union in terms of the dispute over "job security" shifted the critical focus onto the union. The dominant news frame of a prospective strike was articulated through a relatively conventional strike script focusing on the ways a strike would be problematic…
Public/Private Service: Service Journalism and the Problems of Everyday Life
This article discusses service journalism — the way the news media provide their audiences with information, advice and help about the problems of everyday life — in light of the theory of the public sphere and the growth of subpolitics fostered by reflexive modernization. Service journalism addresses two main types of everyday problem — grievances and risks — but it tends to subsume the former under the latter due to the effects of promotionalis…
Hegemony, the Media, and New Right Politics: Ontario in the Late 1990S
This article discusses the issue of hegemony in relation to the 1995 election in Ontario, Canada's most populous and industrialized province, of a conservative government whose New Right policy platform combined a neoliberal emphasis on reducing the size and role of government with a neoconservative focus on taking a harder line toward deviant and socially disadvantaged groups, such as juvenile offenders and welfare recipients. The Conservative e…
Media, Culture and Morality
The Problem of Cultural Studies The Culture Industry The Audience The Media and Morality The Silence
Objectivity and Its Other
Mass Culture, Popular Culture, and Social Life in the Middle East
News and political consensus: C.B.C. television and the 1983 British election
Cet essai propose une analyse structurelle des elections britanniques de 1983 dans les téléjournaux anglophones de Radio‐Canada. Nous voulons circonscrire la relation entre les éléments présents et exclus du discours. Ceci, de trois façons: par l'interprétation de sondages d'opinion, par la representation des partis politiques, et par le traitement de la chose économique dans la compagne électorale. Le discours opère idéologiquement de façon à re…
News Accounts of Attacks on Women: A Comparison of Three Toronto Newspapers
Measures of Socioeconomic Status
Between the Lines: How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Between the Lines is organized along the lines of an instruction manual that attempts to provide a critical look at the content and structuring of the broad range of messages produced by the mass media. Although the accent is on Canada, the global character of communications means that sources and examples are drawn from other than Canadian media. The discussion is concerned primarily with news, but takes in other forms of communication such as a…
Myth and the Structure of News
Journal Article Myth and the Structure of News Get access Graham Knight, Graham Knight 1Graham Knight is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Tony Dean Tony Dean 2Tony Dean, formerly a graduate student in that department, is a research officer with an employee association in Toronto Search for other works by this …
Strike Talk: A Case Study of News
This article presents an exploratory analysis of strike news as reported by two Toronto dailies during the 1980 postal strike, in light of a number of recent British studies of industrial relations news (Beharrell and Philo, 1977; Clarke and Taylor, 1980; Connell, 1979; Edwards, 1979; Glasgow Media Group, 1976, 1980; Hartmann, 1975-6; Morley, 1976). These studies point to the way in which industrial relations news is framed so as to draw upon and…
News and Ideology
This paper discusses the relationship between news and ideology in light of recent studies of newswork and theoretical developments in the understanding of ideology. New, it is argued, is a representation of wider relations of power and tends to reproduce those relations in a relatively uncritical fashion. As these relations are themselves characterized by contradiction and conflict, the function of news cannot be reduced to the role of merely re…
Property, Stratification and the Wage-Form
Work Orientation and Mobility Ideology in the Working-Class
Reply to Professor Smith
Public/Private Service: Service Journalism and the Problems of Everyday Life
This article discusses service journalism — the way the news media provide their audiences with information, advice and help about the problems of everyday life — in light of the theory of the public sphere and the growth of subpolitics fostered by reflexive modernization. Service journalism addresses two main types of everyday problem — grievances and risks — but it tends to subsume the former under the latter due to the effects of promotionalis…
Spinning climate change: Corporate and NGO public relations strategies in Canada and the United States
This article examines the role of PR in the debate about global climate change. Seeking to move beyond a focus on PR as just the handmaiden of corporate power, the article documents the fluid role of professionalized communication in terms of its impact on both corporate and NGO actors and their activities, focusing on communication tactics and the influence of PR consultancies. Drawing from the debates around the transformation of the public sph…
Talk of the Enemy: Adversarial Framing and Climate Change Discourse
This article provides a comparative analysis of adversarial framing oriented to reputation discrediting in the context of social movement/counter-movement relations. Website material associated with two Canadian organizations, the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) and DeSmogBlog (DSB), involved on opposite sides of the contention over anthropogenic global warming (AGW), is analysed to examine how each side identifies and frames its adv…
The Disappointment Games: Narratives of Olympic Failure in Canada and New Zealand
This article provides a comparative analysis of news narratives of 'disappointment' in Canada and New Zealand in response to the 2000 Olympics. The theoretical framework draws on Luhmann's distinction between cognitive and normative orientations to expectations, contingency, and disappointment. The analysis examines how disappointment was thematized similarly as a decline in relation to past performance, but explained somewhat differently in the …
Media, Culture and Morality
The Problem of Cultural Studies The Culture Industry The Audience The Media and Morality The Silence
News and Ideology
This paper discusses the relationship between news and ideology in light of recent studies of newswork and theoretical developments in the understanding of ideology. New, it is argued, is a representation of wider relations of power and tends to reproduce those relations in a relatively uncritical fashion. As these relations are themselves characterized by contradiction and conflict, the function of news cannot be reduced to the role of merely re…
Framing sweatshops: Nike, global production, and the American news media
This study examines US newspaper coverage of sweatshops, focusing on the case study of Nike (1995–2000) and asking how the coverage was structured, how sweatshops were problematized, and how they were explained. We find that while activists established a measure of definitional control over the coverage, it tended to concentrate on solutions rather than causes, and the source of the problem tended to be rooted in the agency of consumers rather th…
Bringing the Local Back In: Trajectory of Contention and the Union Struggle at Kukdong/Mexmode
The conflict in 2001 at the Kukdong (now Mexmode) maquila garment factory is one of the rare cases of success in the wider struggle for independent unionism in Mexico. The success of the struggle, which has attracted scholars interested in the campaigns against sweatshop labour conditions and on behalf of labour internationalism, has been attributed chiefly to the role played by transnational advocacy networks in mobilizing pressure on the global…
News Accounts of Attacks on Women: A Comparison of Three Toronto Newspapers
Prospective News: Press pre-framing of the 1996 Ontario public service strike
Analysis of press coverage leading up to the 1996 Ontario Public Service strike indicates how framing of the negotiations between the Ontario government and the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union in terms of the dispute over "job security" shifted the critical focus onto the union. The dominant news frame of a prospective strike was articulated through a relatively conventional strike script focusing on the ways a strike would be problematic…
Hegemony, the Media, and New Right Politics: Ontario in the Late 1990S
This article discusses the issue of hegemony in relation to the 1995 election in Ontario, Canada's most populous and industrialized province, of a conservative government whose New Right policy platform combined a neoliberal emphasis on reducing the size and role of government with a neoconservative focus on taking a harder line toward deviant and socially disadvantaged groups, such as juvenile offenders and welfare recipients. The Conservative e…
Objectivity and Its Other
Measures of Socioeconomic Status
Property, Stratification and the Wage-Form
Work Orientation and Mobility Ideology in the Working-Class
Reply to Professor Smith
Myth and the Structure of News
Journal Article Myth and the Structure of News Get access Graham Knight, Graham Knight 1Graham Knight is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Tony Dean Tony Dean 2Tony Dean, formerly a graduate student in that department, is a research officer with an employee association in Toronto Search for other works by this …
Strike Talk: A Case Study of News
This article presents an exploratory analysis of strike news as reported by two Toronto dailies during the 1980 postal strike, in light of a number of recent British studies of industrial relations news (Beharrell and Philo, 1977; Clarke and Taylor, 1980; Connell, 1979; Edwards, 1979; Glasgow Media Group, 1976, 1980; Hartmann, 1975-6; Morley, 1976). These studies point to the way in which industrial relations news is framed so as to draw upon and…
News and Ideology
This paper discusses the relationship between news and ideology in light of recent studies of newswork and theoretical developments in the understanding of ideology. New, it is argued, is a representation of wider relations of power and tends to reproduce those relations in a relatively uncritical fashion. As these relations are themselves characterized by contradiction and conflict, the function of news cannot be reduced to the role of merely re…
Property, Stratification and the Wage-Form
Between the Lines: How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Between the Lines is organized along the lines of an instruction manual that attempts to provide a critical look at the content and structuring of the broad range of messages produced by the mass media. Although the accent is on Canada, the global character of communications means that sources and examples are drawn from other than Canadian media. The discussion is concerned primarily with news, but takes in other forms of communication such as a…
Measures of Socioeconomic Status
News Accounts of Attacks on Women: A Comparison of Three Toronto Newspapers
News and political consensus: C.B.C. television and the 1983 British election
Cet essai propose une analyse structurelle des elections britanniques de 1983 dans les téléjournaux anglophones de Radio‐Canada. Nous voulons circonscrire la relation entre les éléments présents et exclus du discours. Ceci, de trois façons: par l'interprétation de sondages d'opinion, par la representation des partis politiques, et par le traitement de la chose économique dans la compagne électorale. Le discours opère idéologiquement de façon à re…
Mass Culture, Popular Culture, and Social Life in the Middle East
Objectivity and Its Other
Media, Culture and Morality
The Problem of Cultural Studies The Culture Industry The Audience The Media and Morality The Silence
Hegemony, the Media, and New Right Politics: Ontario in the Late 1990S
This article discusses the issue of hegemony in relation to the 1995 election in Ontario, Canada's most populous and industrialized province, of a conservative government whose New Right policy platform combined a neoliberal emphasis on reducing the size and role of government with a neoconservative focus on taking a harder line toward deviant and socially disadvantaged groups, such as juvenile offenders and welfare recipients. The Conservative e…
Public/Private Service: Service Journalism and the Problems of Everyday Life
This article discusses service journalism — the way the news media provide their audiences with information, advice and help about the problems of everyday life — in light of the theory of the public sphere and the growth of subpolitics fostered by reflexive modernization. Service journalism addresses two main types of everyday problem — grievances and risks — but it tends to subsume the former under the latter due to the effects of promotionalis…
Prospective News: Press pre-framing of the 1996 Ontario public service strike
Analysis of press coverage leading up to the 1996 Ontario Public Service strike indicates how framing of the negotiations between the Ontario government and the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union in terms of the dispute over "job security" shifted the critical focus onto the union. The dominant news frame of a prospective strike was articulated through a relatively conventional strike script focusing on the ways a strike would be problematic…
Framing sweatshops: Nike, global production, and the American news media
This study examines US newspaper coverage of sweatshops, focusing on the case study of Nike (1995–2000) and asking how the coverage was structured, how sweatshops were problematized, and how they were explained. We find that while activists established a measure of definitional control over the coverage, it tended to concentrate on solutions rather than causes, and the source of the problem tended to be rooted in the agency of consumers rather th…
The Disappointment Games: Narratives of Olympic Failure in Canada and New Zealand
This article provides a comparative analysis of news narratives of 'disappointment' in Canada and New Zealand in response to the 2000 Olympics. The theoretical framework draws on Luhmann's distinction between cognitive and normative orientations to expectations, contingency, and disappointment. The analysis examines how disappointment was thematized similarly as a decline in relation to past performance, but explained somewhat differently in the …
The weight of expectation: Cathy Freeman, Legacy, Reconciliation and the Sydney Olympics – A Canadian Perspective
This paper compares French- and English-language Canadian television coverage of Australian Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman during the 2000 Olympics using a narrative framework. The specific focus of the analysis is the representation of Freeman's political identity as an agent and symbol of Aboriginal reconciliation – the struggle for apology, reparatio, and social justice in the light of the history and legacy of colonial oppression and exclus…
Bringing the Local Back In: Trajectory of Contention and the Union Struggle at Kukdong/Mexmode
The conflict in 2001 at the Kukdong (now Mexmode) maquila garment factory is one of the rare cases of success in the wider struggle for independent unionism in Mexico. The success of the struggle, which has attracted scholars interested in the campaigns against sweatshop labour conditions and on behalf of labour internationalism, has been attributed chiefly to the role played by transnational advocacy networks in mobilizing pressure on the global…
Rethinking public relations
Political strategists, market research firms, think tanks, lobbyists, media advisors, third party mobilizers and 'grassroots' organizers, social media gurus, and other communication specialists have flourished in size and influence and transformed the role of communication in social, political, and economic life. Critics decry the expansion of professionalized communication, impugning the public relations (PR), polling, advertising, and marketing…
Spinning climate change: Corporate and NGO public relations strategies in Canada and the United States
This article examines the role of PR in the debate about global climate change. Seeking to move beyond a focus on PR as just the handmaiden of corporate power, the article documents the fluid role of professionalized communication in terms of its impact on both corporate and NGO actors and their activities, focusing on communication tactics and the influence of PR consultancies. Drawing from the debates around the transformation of the public sph…
Talk of the Enemy: Adversarial Framing and Climate Change Discourse
This article provides a comparative analysis of adversarial framing oriented to reputation discrediting in the context of social movement/counter-movement relations. Website material associated with two Canadian organizations, the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) and DeSmogBlog (DSB), involved on opposite sides of the contention over anthropogenic global warming (AGW), is analysed to examine how each side identifies and frames its adv…
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