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Davis Thorton

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ID762671
NAMEDavis Thorton
GIVEN NAMESDavis
FAMILY NAMEThorton
SIGNATURETHORTON D
AFFILIATIONSBoth of Department of Literacy, Language, and Culture, The University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS1
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT1
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1
  • From 'special but shadowed' to beloved but expendable: A Study of Pandemic-Era News Media and the Public's Perception of the Teacher's Role

    Open Access•Davis Thorton, Andrea Stairs-Davenport•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This study examines how the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic perpetuated Dan Lortie’s [1975. Schoolteacher: A sociological study. University of Chicago Press] notion of the teacher’s role as ‘special but shadowed.’ Employing Metaphorical Coding and Critical Discourse Analysis, this study analyzes pandemic-era media accounts published in the United States from March 2020 to March 2022 to investigate how the media naturalized the public's pe…

  • From 'special but shadowed' to beloved but expendable: A Study of Pandemic-Era News Media and the Public's Perception of the Teacher's Role

    Open Access•Davis Thorton, Andrea Stairs-Davenport•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This study examines how the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic perpetuated Dan Lortie’s [1975. Schoolteacher: A sociological study. University of Chicago Press] notion of the teacher’s role as ‘special but shadowed.’ Employing Metaphorical Coding and Critical Discourse Analysis, this study analyzes pandemic-era media accounts published in the United States from March 2020 to March 2022 to investigate how the media naturalized the public's pe…

  • From 'special but shadowed' to beloved but expendable: A Study of Pandemic-Era News Media and the Public's Perception of the Teacher's Role

    Open Access•Davis Thorton, Andrea Stairs-Davenport•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This study examines how the news media during the COVID-19 pandemic perpetuated Dan Lortie’s [1975. Schoolteacher: A sociological study. University of Chicago Press] notion of the teacher’s role as ‘special but shadowed.’ Employing Metaphorical Coding and Critical Discourse Analysis, this study analyzes pandemic-era media accounts published in the United States from March 2020 to March 2022 to investigate how the media naturalized the public's pe…

Communication in Education and Healthcare (1 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · History (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Media studies (1 works) · Medicine (1 works) · News media (1 works) · Pandemic (1 works)

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