Farrel Corcoran
Biographic Data
| ID | 4931427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farrel Corcoran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farrel |
| FAMILY NAME | Corcoran |
| SIGNATURE | CORCORAN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Civic Engagement and Elite Decision-Making in Europe: Reconfiguring Public Service News
As the central position of the lobbying industry within the decision-making apparatus of the European Union (EU) slowly becomes clearer, its political function can be seen as well outside the parameters of normal democratic scrutiny. To engage with the process of developing laws and regulations affecting the governance of 500 million citizens in a 13 trillion euro economy, an estimated 15,000 full-time lobbyists are engaged in bringing corporate …
Exploring the European Elite Sphere: The role of the Financial Times
This article goes beyond the traditional elite–mass paradigm for studying how economic and political power is distributed in society, to explore how elite–elite communication takes place within the European Union, through an analysis of elite European news media. It focuses on one newspaper in this sector, the Financial Times (FT), asking why it is regarded by reporters, spokespersons and officials as occupying a crucial and privileged position i…
RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television
A study of the structural transformations taking place in Irish broadcasting. It focuses on the broadcasting section generally, but primarily on RTE, as it adjusts to a number of radical changes in the field of forces whose impact began to accelerate in the mid-1990s. The volume takes the form of a critical history of the present and an investigation of the future of broadcasting in Ireland. Its analytical framework is situated within the broader…
KAL 007 and the evil empire: Mediated disaster and forms of rationalization
News magazine coverage of the Soviet attack on KAL 007 is examined as a text in which a particular view of the USSR, close to that of the Reagan administration, is established and legitimized. The ideological closure imposed on the disaster is pried open by analyzing the twin processes of selection and structuring giving coherence to the text. The conclusion is that cultural analysis should look on this dominant discourse about the USSR, which na…
Consciousness: A Missing Link in the Coupling of Technology and Communication
A materialistic approach to consciousness, long ignored in mainstream research but emerging in critical theory, may help to explain the ideological impact of media in which dominant cultural meanings are subjectively internalized
Television as ideological apparatus: The power and the pleasure
Many ideological approaches to television criticism assume the power of the medium in securing hegemonic social definitions. This essay attempts to explicate the pleasure which, presumably, motivates acquiescence to this power. It argues that the detachment from television content (which typically characterizes the viewing situation) and the medium's adaptation of the narrative mode of classical realism established in cinema, pose problems not ye…
The bear in the back yard: Myth, ideology, and victimage ritual in soviet funerals
A longitudinal myth analysis of American news magazine reports on the USSR reveals a pattern of image‐clusters that endures from the time of Stalin's funeral to Brezhnev's, almost 30 years later. A Russophobic worldview is explored through a symbolic vocabulary in which clusters of images cohere into a few dominant, generative myths. It is argued that the resultant rhetorical vision, which chains out across three major news magazines over a 30 ye…
Myth in the television discourse
With perspectives from both traditional and contemporary disciplines, the universality of myth and its functions are investigated within the framework of television, employing examples from television news coverage and popular culture. The role of the communication scholar and the artist with regard to the creation and destruction of mythologies is examined
Exploring the European Elite Sphere: The role of the Financial Times
This article goes beyond the traditional elite–mass paradigm for studying how economic and political power is distributed in society, to explore how elite–elite communication takes place within the European Union, through an analysis of elite European news media. It focuses on one newspaper in this sector, the Financial Times (FT), asking why it is regarded by reporters, spokespersons and officials as occupying a crucial and privileged position i…
Television as ideological apparatus: The power and the pleasure
Many ideological approaches to television criticism assume the power of the medium in securing hegemonic social definitions. This essay attempts to explicate the pleasure which, presumably, motivates acquiescence to this power. It argues that the detachment from television content (which typically characterizes the viewing situation) and the medium's adaptation of the narrative mode of classical realism established in cinema, pose problems not ye…
Myth in the television discourse
With perspectives from both traditional and contemporary disciplines, the universality of myth and its functions are investigated within the framework of television, employing examples from television news coverage and popular culture. The role of the communication scholar and the artist with regard to the creation and destruction of mythologies is examined
The bear in the back yard: Myth, ideology, and victimage ritual in soviet funerals
A longitudinal myth analysis of American news magazine reports on the USSR reveals a pattern of image‐clusters that endures from the time of Stalin's funeral to Brezhnev's, almost 30 years later. A Russophobic worldview is explored through a symbolic vocabulary in which clusters of images cohere into a few dominant, generative myths. It is argued that the resultant rhetorical vision, which chains out across three major news magazines over a 30 ye…
Myth in the television discourse
With perspectives from both traditional and contemporary disciplines, the universality of myth and its functions are investigated within the framework of television, employing examples from television news coverage and popular culture. The role of the communication scholar and the artist with regard to the creation and destruction of mythologies is examined
The bear in the back yard: Myth, ideology, and victimage ritual in soviet funerals
A longitudinal myth analysis of American news magazine reports on the USSR reveals a pattern of image‐clusters that endures from the time of Stalin's funeral to Brezhnev's, almost 30 years later. A Russophobic worldview is explored through a symbolic vocabulary in which clusters of images cohere into a few dominant, generative myths. It is argued that the resultant rhetorical vision, which chains out across three major news magazines over a 30 ye…
Consciousness: A Missing Link in the Coupling of Technology and Communication
A materialistic approach to consciousness, long ignored in mainstream research but emerging in critical theory, may help to explain the ideological impact of media in which dominant cultural meanings are subjectively internalized
Television as ideological apparatus: The power and the pleasure
Many ideological approaches to television criticism assume the power of the medium in securing hegemonic social definitions. This essay attempts to explicate the pleasure which, presumably, motivates acquiescence to this power. It argues that the detachment from television content (which typically characterizes the viewing situation) and the medium's adaptation of the narrative mode of classical realism established in cinema, pose problems not ye…
KAL 007 and the evil empire: Mediated disaster and forms of rationalization
News magazine coverage of the Soviet attack on KAL 007 is examined as a text in which a particular view of the USSR, close to that of the Reagan administration, is established and legitimized. The ideological closure imposed on the disaster is pried open by analyzing the twin processes of selection and structuring giving coherence to the text. The conclusion is that cultural analysis should look on this dominant discourse about the USSR, which na…
RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television
A study of the structural transformations taking place in Irish broadcasting. It focuses on the broadcasting section generally, but primarily on RTE, as it adjusts to a number of radical changes in the field of forces whose impact began to accelerate in the mid-1990s. The volume takes the form of a critical history of the present and an investigation of the future of broadcasting in Ireland. Its analytical framework is situated within the broader…
Exploring the European Elite Sphere: The role of the Financial Times
This article goes beyond the traditional elite–mass paradigm for studying how economic and political power is distributed in society, to explore how elite–elite communication takes place within the European Union, through an analysis of elite European news media. It focuses on one newspaper in this sector, the Financial Times (FT), asking why it is regarded by reporters, spokespersons and officials as occupying a crucial and privileged position i…
Civic Engagement and Elite Decision-Making in Europe: Reconfiguring Public Service News
As the central position of the lobbying industry within the decision-making apparatus of the European Union (EU) slowly becomes clearer, its political function can be seen as well outside the parameters of normal democratic scrutiny. To engage with the process of developing laws and regulations affecting the governance of 500 million citizens in a 13 trillion euro economy, an estimated 15,000 full-time lobbyists are engaged in bringing corporate …
Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)