Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4503306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hearns-Branaman |
| SIGNATURE | HEARNS-BRANAMAN J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Development Administration |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1758-2855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ten years of transformation
This study investigates the evolution of American news coverage of China over a period of ten years, comparing the portrayals during the Chinese president’s initial and fifth visits to the United States (US) in 2013 and 2023, respectively. Previous research on media coverage of foreign countries suggests that foreign policy and bilateral dynamics significantly influence the media’s use of agendas and tones when reporting on issues related to the …
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
Professionalism and Fetishistic Disavowal in Thai and Chinese Journalism
This study reviews how Thai and Chinese journalists talk about power and truth in relationship to their Fourth Estate role through examining twenty qualitative interviews. Adding to a previous study similarly looking at US and UK journalists it finds that, like their western counterparts, truth is heavily fetishized, being an ideal that journalists admittedly can never reach. However power relations are discussed quite differently, showing how th…
Journalism and Foreign Policy
The effects of coups d’état on journalists
Journalists face a great number of pressures in their jobs; from their governmental and corporate sources, from legal restrictions, and occasionally from various actors involved in political turmoil in their country. It is generally assumed that indirect pressures are more acceptable and that direct intervention from the government/military is undesirable. The effects of military coups d’etat on journalists is an under-researched area, thus this …
A Political Economy of News Media in the People’s Republic of China
This article analyses the political economy of news media production in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model. This method contains two aspects: (1) an examination of the effects that a capitalist base has on news media in the transitioning system of the PRC, and (2) a study of the utility of the Propaganda Model’s dimensions for use in comparative media research. The article finds that the differing pol…
Official Enemies in Commercial and Soft Power Media
This article analyzes the transitivity processes associated with different actors in news media coverage of the conflict between Iran and the United States and its allies. It explores this by examining how agency is ascribed; that is, which mental, verbal, material, and relational processes are associated with which agents. The study compares the January 2012 coverage from the New York Times, Guardian, Fars News Agency, Tehran Times, and Xinhua N…
Journalistic professionalism as indirect control and fetishistic disavowal
In this essay I argue that a better understanding of the basis of journalistic professionalism lies in the combination of two ideological formations. First, we have the process of professional socialization of journalists, leading to a delimited range of voices and self-censorship. This formation alone is insufficient, however, as occasional self-criticism and scepticism of journalistic professional norms is needed. I argue that Žižek’s concept o…
Journalistic professionalism as indirect control and fetishistic disavowal
In this essay I argue that a better understanding of the basis of journalistic professionalism lies in the combination of two ideological formations. First, we have the process of professional socialization of journalists, leading to a delimited range of voices and self-censorship. This formation alone is insufficient, however, as occasional self-criticism and scepticism of journalistic professional norms is needed. I argue that Žižek’s concept o…
Official Enemies in Commercial and Soft Power Media
This article analyzes the transitivity processes associated with different actors in news media coverage of the conflict between Iran and the United States and its allies. It explores this by examining how agency is ascribed; that is, which mental, verbal, material, and relational processes are associated with which agents. The study compares the January 2012 coverage from the New York Times, Guardian, Fars News Agency, Tehran Times, and Xinhua N…
A Political Economy of News Media in the People’s Republic of China
This article analyses the political economy of news media production in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model. This method contains two aspects: (1) an examination of the effects that a capitalist base has on news media in the transitioning system of the PRC, and (2) a study of the utility of the Propaganda Model’s dimensions for use in comparative media research. The article finds that the differing pol…
Journalistic professionalism as indirect control and fetishistic disavowal
In this essay I argue that a better understanding of the basis of journalistic professionalism lies in the combination of two ideological formations. First, we have the process of professional socialization of journalists, leading to a delimited range of voices and self-censorship. This formation alone is insufficient, however, as occasional self-criticism and scepticism of journalistic professional norms is needed. I argue that Žižek’s concept o…
Official Enemies in Commercial and Soft Power Media
This article analyzes the transitivity processes associated with different actors in news media coverage of the conflict between Iran and the United States and its allies. It explores this by examining how agency is ascribed; that is, which mental, verbal, material, and relational processes are associated with which agents. The study compares the January 2012 coverage from the New York Times, Guardian, Fars News Agency, Tehran Times, and Xinhua N…
A Political Economy of News Media in the People’s Republic of China
This article analyses the political economy of news media production in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model. This method contains two aspects: (1) an examination of the effects that a capitalist base has on news media in the transitioning system of the PRC, and (2) a study of the utility of the Propaganda Model’s dimensions for use in comparative media research. The article finds that the differing pol…
The effects of coups d’état on journalists
Journalists face a great number of pressures in their jobs; from their governmental and corporate sources, from legal restrictions, and occasionally from various actors involved in political turmoil in their country. It is generally assumed that indirect pressures are more acceptable and that direct intervention from the government/military is undesirable. The effects of military coups d’etat on journalists is an under-researched area, thus this …
Journalism and Foreign Policy
Professionalism and Fetishistic Disavowal in Thai and Chinese Journalism
This study reviews how Thai and Chinese journalists talk about power and truth in relationship to their Fourth Estate role through examining twenty qualitative interviews. Adding to a previous study similarly looking at US and UK journalists it finds that, like their western counterparts, truth is heavily fetishized, being an ideal that journalists admittedly can never reach. However power relations are discussed quite differently, showing how th…
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
Ten years of transformation
This study investigates the evolution of American news coverage of China over a period of ten years, comparing the portrayals during the Chinese president’s initial and fifth visits to the United States (US) in 2013 and 2023, respectively. Previous research on media coverage of foreign countries suggests that foreign policy and bilateral dynamics significantly influence the media’s use of agendas and tones when reporting on issues related to the …
Political science (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · China (3 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works)