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Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news

Gross, Bernhard

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Authors

Bernhard Gross Bernhard.Gross@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Film & Journalism



Contributors

Enric Castello
Editor

Alexander Dhoest
Editor

Hugh O'Donnell
Editor

Abstract

Collective identities projected in the content of national television news can be less stable and coherent than is often suggested. Working within a tension between an inclusive and an exclusive national identity discourse, television news programmes are involved in what Ulrich Beck (2005:47) calls a 'transnational meta-power politics of plural boundary demarcations'. Based on analysis of boundary positions within the coverage of immigration and migration issues on British television news, this chapter illustrates how news programmes construct shifting boundaries and thus plural identies. The 'imagined community' (Anderson 1983) proposed by individual news pieces can vary, even appear contradictory.

Publication Date Jun 1, 2009
Deposit Date Aug 12, 2010
Publicly Available Date Apr 3, 2016
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 139-156
Book Title The Nation on Screen
ISBN 9780443806145
Keywords spatiality, nation-state, boundaries, news media
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/995563
Publisher URL http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/The-Nation-on-Screen--Discourses-of-the-National-on-Global-Television1-4438-0614-5.htm
Additional Information Additional Information : Published with permission of Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Contract Date Apr 3, 2016

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