Media representation of mutual aid practices
Superbergamo as ‘good news
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6784807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Lucia Parolin (0000-0001-7385-9797, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author), Carmen Pellegrinelli (0000-0001-8808-2351, University of Lapland) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 112-129 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17405904.2022.2119267 |
| OpenAlex | W4296236149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
During the pandemic, civil society organisations adjusted their purpose to provide support to the most vulnerable. In the midst of the first wave, Superbergamo, an initiative that grew out of local activist associations, provided groceries and medicine to the elderly, the infirm and at-risk groups during the lockdown in Bergamo, Italy. This research analyses a newspaper article from Corriere della Sera published almost two years after the event, which tells the story of Stefano ‘Kino’, one of the volunteers of Superbergamo. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, we show how the mainstream media normalised the story of Superbergamo to transform a critical, radical, leftist mutual aid practice, into an example of charitable volunteering. By omitting and recontextualising central elements, the article inscribed the mutual aid practice in a catholic narrative, stripping it of any critical afflatus of the status quo. Reframed within the catholic vocabulary by the Corriere della Sera’s weekly insert ‘good news’, the story of Superbergamo becomes one that reinforces the common sensical model of catholic charitable volunteering
Epistemology · Media studies · Mutual aid · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics
Language and Power
Multidisciplinary Cda
Discourse Analysis
Communication Technologies and Aid Practices
Co-Production of Care During Covid-19
Becoming Discourse Analysts
Everyday Revolutions
Disaster Anarchy
Analysing Discourse
Solidarity Not Charity
Excess Deaths and Hospital Admissions for Covid-19 Due to a Late Implementation of the Lockdown in Italy
Caring geographies
On solidarity and volunteering during the Covid-19 crisis in Denmark
Discourse and Text
Re-Building Infrastructures of Resistance
Kropotkin's Theory of Mutual Aid in Historical Context
The social construction of reality
Mutual aid versus volunteerism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |