Robert A Hackett
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 455350 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert A Hackett |
| PRENOMES | Robert A |
| SOBRENOME | Hackett |
| ASSINATURA | HACKETT R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Journalism and Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis and Communication
This commentary suggests that Naomi Klein’s influential book This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the climate , implicitly points to the influence of media institutions on societal response to the crisis, yet does not analyze them explicitly. Communication scholars could help fill that gap. Conversely however, Klein’s work suggests productive avenues for media researchers to explore, including a fresh take on the relationship between climate c…
Media Activism and the Academy, Three Cases
In Canada, there is a relatively strong tradition of activist scholarship in media and communication studies. However, very little research has been undertaken on how working in the university may contextualize the ways in which academic workers participate in activist media projects. Focusing on three such projects – Media Democracy Day, Open Media, and NewsWatch Canada – this article draws upon elements of political economy and Bourdieu’s field…
Between Objectivity and Openness—The Mediality of Data for Journalism
A number of recent high profile news events have emphasised the importance of data as a journalistic resource. But with no definitive definition for what constitutes data in journalism, it is difficult to determine what the implications of collecting, analysing, and disseminating data are for journalism, particularly in terms of objectivity in journalism. Drawing selectively from theories of mediation and research in journalism studies we critica…
Reporting Conflict
Democratizing Communication Policy in Canada
Keeping the Fox at Bay
Journalism for Peace and Justice
This paper compares different normative and institutional paradigms of journalism with respect to peaceful conflict resolution and democratic communication. It begins with the problematic but still dominant 'regime of objectivity,' and then considers three contemporary challengers: peace journalism, alternative media, and media democratization/communication rights movements. The paradigms are compared in terms of such factors as public philosophy…
Spreading the News
As part of a research program called CHAMP (Canadian Health and Media Project) devoted to examining health literacy in Canadian daily newspapers, and operating from a theoretical framework that posits journalism as a practice of representation, this article is based on a series of formal interviews with English-language and French-language health reporters. The interviews sought answers to three central questions about health reportage: how do jo…
Telling stories
Remaking Media
Remaking Media is a unique and timely reading of the contemporary struggle to democratize communication. With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, the book explores the burning question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world today? Taking an innovative approach, Robert Hackett and William Carroll pay attention to an emerg…
Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory
This article considers how we are to understand democratic media activism, which has recently burgeoned in Canada, the UK and the USA. What is its political significance and potential? Is it a new social movement, a new style of politics cutting across movements, or are new concepts needed? Drawing illustratively upon interviews with media activists, notably in Vancouver, we explore insights offered by social movement theory - including resource …
Hidden Agendas
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Media Reform
Radical Media
The Missing News
Objection to Review
Taking Back The Media
Of all contemporary popular struggles, the struggle to democratize the communication media is arguably one of the most important and least recognized. In this article, I first argue for the importance of placing media democratization higher on the progressive agenda, and briefly sketch its normative commitments. Then I explore both the potential social and political obstacles to, and bases for, a media democracy movement, concluding with a few st…
Question the Sun! A Content Analysis of Diversity in the Vancouver Sun before and after the Hollinger Take-Over
Is media democratization a social movement
As media markets are becoming globalized, as the public service ethos is displaced by hyper‐commercialism, and as media ownership falls into the hands of fewer and fewer multinational conglomerates, the prospects for the media system supporting a progressive and democratic political culture are becoming dimmer. Many people in the U.S. and other countries know the limitations of the commercialized corporate media, and the systematic ways the media…
Sustaining Democracy?
The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity. Sustaining Democracy? asks whether it is worth trying to be objective in the first place by addressing current, and highly topical, debates on the relationship between journalism and democracy in Canada and the United States. These debates are made all the more urgent by the perceived crises of technological change, declining and fragmented audiences, media concentration, and popular cynici…
Journalistic objectivity and social change
Despite constant critique, objectivity remains part of the defining ethos of North American journalism. Within the dominant model of commercial journalism and concentrated corporate media power, journalistic objectivity is viewed as essential to democratic self‐government; the news media provide factual and impartial information to allow citizens to make independent and rational decisions. The current crisis of liberal democracy, however, calls i…
News and Dissent
This volume centers on a critical examination of press coverage of peace-related issues and of the relationships between newspaper journalism and the peace movement in Canada in the 1980s. The chapters deal respectively with the following topics: the relevance and impact of news media in relation to both international peace, and the emergence and success of antiwar movements; a critical review of previous research on the relation between media an…
Structuring the hierarchy of dissent
What role do the media in a liberal democracy play when their nation is at war? Wars present a potential contradiction for journalism. On the one hand, the press presents itself as an independent critic, an objective narrator, a neutral form. On the other hand, most news media are embedded organizationally within the framework of particular nation‐states. Their routine reliance on powerful, official sources yields news that often amplifies the do…
News Balance Rhetoric
The Fraser Institute’s bulletin On Balance, which offers monthly content analyses of news, is critically examined. Methodological, conceptual and epistemological problems are discussed, as well as a rhetorical mode of reporting results which implies a politicized interpretation of news
Reporting Conflict
Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory
This article considers how we are to understand democratic media activism, which has recently burgeoned in Canada, the UK and the USA. What is its political significance and potential? Is it a new social movement, a new style of politics cutting across movements, or are new concepts needed? Drawing illustratively upon interviews with media activists, notably in Vancouver, we explore insights offered by social movement theory - including resource …
Telling stories
Taking Back The Media
Of all contemporary popular struggles, the struggle to democratize the communication media is arguably one of the most important and least recognized. In this article, I first argue for the importance of placing media democratization higher on the progressive agenda, and briefly sketch its normative commitments. Then I explore both the potential social and political obstacles to, and bases for, a media democracy movement, concluding with a few st…
The Missing News
Media Reform
Coups, Earthquakes and Hostages? Foreign News on Canadian Television
Foreign news coverage on Canadian national television was content analyzed in light of Third World criticisms of Western news agencies. Using a sample of CBC and CTV national English-language newscasts in 1980 and 1985, four hypotheses were considered: (1) the geographical distribution of foreign news is highly concentrated, focussing on the West and regions of violence involving Western interests; (2) news from the industrialized West and from t…
Journalism for Peace and Justice
This paper compares different normative and institutional paradigms of journalism with respect to peaceful conflict resolution and democratic communication. It begins with the problematic but still dominant 'regime of objectivity,' and then considers three contemporary challengers: peace journalism, alternative media, and media democratization/communication rights movements. The paradigms are compared in terms of such factors as public philosophy…
Is media democratization a social movement
As media markets are becoming globalized, as the public service ethos is displaced by hyper‐commercialism, and as media ownership falls into the hands of fewer and fewer multinational conglomerates, the prospects for the media system supporting a progressive and democratic political culture are becoming dimmer. Many people in the U.S. and other countries know the limitations of the commercialized corporate media, and the systematic ways the media…
News Balance Rhetoric
The Fraser Institute’s bulletin On Balance, which offers monthly content analyses of news, is critically examined. Methodological, conceptual and epistemological problems are discussed, as well as a rhetorical mode of reporting results which implies a politicized interpretation of news
Radical Media
Journalistic objectivity and social change
Despite constant critique, objectivity remains part of the defining ethos of North American journalism. Within the dominant model of commercial journalism and concentrated corporate media power, journalistic objectivity is viewed as essential to democratic self‐government; the news media provide factual and impartial information to allow citizens to make independent and rational decisions. The current crisis of liberal democracy, however, calls i…
For a Socialist Perspective on the News Media
What is a socialist position on the control and functioning of the mass media in Canada? What strategies should socialists pursue in relation to the existing media? What alternative policies and media should the Left propose and help to build? This paper argues that a socialist perspective on such questions requires moving beyond an instrumentalist focus on media ownership, to include an adequate understanding of ideology and audience-media relat…
The Depiction of Labour and Business on National Television News
This content analysis compares labour and business coverage on CTV and CBC TV news, focusing on several types of potential "bias": the topical context, news treatment and verbal description of the two groups; types of interviewees; and labelling and themes in industrial/economic reporting. Overall, the depiction of labour was found to be less favourable than that of business
Decline of a paradigm? Bias and objectivity in news media studies
This essay outlines emerging empirical, methodological, and epistemolog‐ical challenges to several key assumptions associated with conventional research on news bias. These assumptions are: (1) the news can and ought to be objective, balanced and a reflection of social reality; (2) the political attitudes of journalists or editorial decision‐makers are a major determinant of news bias; (3) bias in news content can be detected with existing readin…
Television's Window on the World
Two timely and politically relevant concerns underlie this book. They are the role of network television in the American foreign policy process, and the international debate on a New World Communication Order, a debate partly sparked by Third World criticisms of imbalance in international news flow, and the lack of "development news" in Western media
For a Socialist Perspective on the News Media
What is a socialist position on the control and functioning of the mass media in Canada? What strategies should socialists pursue in relation to the existing media? What alternative policies and media should the Left propose and help to build? This paper argues that a socialist perspective on such questions requires moving beyond an instrumentalist focus on media ownership, to include an adequate understanding of ideology and audience-media relat…
Coups, Earthquakes and Hostages? Foreign News on Canadian Television
Foreign news coverage on Canadian national television was content analyzed in light of Third World criticisms of Western news agencies. Using a sample of CBC and CTV national English-language newscasts in 1980 and 1985, four hypotheses were considered: (1) the geographical distribution of foreign news is highly concentrated, focussing on the West and regions of violence involving Western interests; (2) news from the industrialized West and from t…
News Balance Rhetoric
The Fraser Institute’s bulletin On Balance, which offers monthly content analyses of news, is critically examined. Methodological, conceptual and epistemological problems are discussed, as well as a rhetorical mode of reporting results which implies a politicized interpretation of news
News and Dissent
This volume centers on a critical examination of press coverage of peace-related issues and of the relationships between newspaper journalism and the peace movement in Canada in the 1980s. The chapters deal respectively with the following topics: the relevance and impact of news media in relation to both international peace, and the emergence and success of antiwar movements; a critical review of previous research on the relation between media an…
Structuring the hierarchy of dissent
What role do the media in a liberal democracy play when their nation is at war? Wars present a potential contradiction for journalism. On the one hand, the press presents itself as an independent critic, an objective narrator, a neutral form. On the other hand, most news media are embedded organizationally within the framework of particular nation‐states. Their routine reliance on powerful, official sources yields news that often amplifies the do…
Journalistic objectivity and social change
Despite constant critique, objectivity remains part of the defining ethos of North American journalism. Within the dominant model of commercial journalism and concentrated corporate media power, journalistic objectivity is viewed as essential to democratic self‐government; the news media provide factual and impartial information to allow citizens to make independent and rational decisions. The current crisis of liberal democracy, however, calls i…
Sustaining Democracy?
The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity. Sustaining Democracy? asks whether it is worth trying to be objective in the first place by addressing current, and highly topical, debates on the relationship between journalism and democracy in Canada and the United States. These debates are made all the more urgent by the perceived crises of technological change, declining and fragmented audiences, media concentration, and popular cynici…
Is media democratization a social movement
As media markets are becoming globalized, as the public service ethos is displaced by hyper‐commercialism, and as media ownership falls into the hands of fewer and fewer multinational conglomerates, the prospects for the media system supporting a progressive and democratic political culture are becoming dimmer. Many people in the U.S. and other countries know the limitations of the commercialized corporate media, and the systematic ways the media…
Taking Back The Media
Of all contemporary popular struggles, the struggle to democratize the communication media is arguably one of the most important and least recognized. In this article, I first argue for the importance of placing media democratization higher on the progressive agenda, and briefly sketch its normative commitments. Then I explore both the potential social and political obstacles to, and bases for, a media democracy movement, concluding with a few st…
Question the Sun! A Content Analysis of Diversity in the Vancouver Sun before and after the Hollinger Take-Over
Objection to Review
Radical Media
The Missing News
Media Reform
Hidden Agendas
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Remaking Media
Remaking Media is a unique and timely reading of the contemporary struggle to democratize communication. With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, the book explores the burning question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world today? Taking an innovative approach, Robert Hackett and William Carroll pay attention to an emerg…
Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory
This article considers how we are to understand democratic media activism, which has recently burgeoned in Canada, the UK and the USA. What is its political significance and potential? Is it a new social movement, a new style of politics cutting across movements, or are new concepts needed? Drawing illustratively upon interviews with media activists, notably in Vancouver, we explore insights offered by social movement theory - including resource …
Spreading the News
As part of a research program called CHAMP (Canadian Health and Media Project) devoted to examining health literacy in Canadian daily newspapers, and operating from a theoretical framework that posits journalism as a practice of representation, this article is based on a series of formal interviews with English-language and French-language health reporters. The interviews sought answers to three central questions about health reportage: how do jo…
Telling stories
Journalism for Peace and Justice
This paper compares different normative and institutional paradigms of journalism with respect to peaceful conflict resolution and democratic communication. It begins with the problematic but still dominant 'regime of objectivity,' and then considers three contemporary challengers: peace journalism, alternative media, and media democratization/communication rights movements. The paradigms are compared in terms of such factors as public philosophy…
Democratizing Communication Policy in Canada
Keeping the Fox at Bay
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