“I Don’t Want to Die in Here”: Absence and Vulnerability in COVID-19 News Coverage of Prisons-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

“I Don’t Want to Die in Here”: Absence and Vulnerability in COVID-19 News Coverage of Prisons

Published:2022-11-27 Issue:2 Volume:47 Page:187-206
ISSN:0196-8599
Container-title:Journal of Communication Inquiry
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Communication Inquiry

Author:

Schneeweis Adina¹^ORCID,Foss Katherine A.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

2. School of Journalism and Strategic Media, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

Abstract

This research examines how news constructed vulnerability in the coverage of COVID-19 and populations in prisons and jails. Focused on key moments during the moral panic around the pandemic, the analysis of publications from across the U.S. found substantial reporting earlier in 2020, and a striking absence and ignorance of key developments later into 2021. Six news discourses - journalistic objectivity, blaming and abandonment, vulnerability, compassion, vilification, and absence - were complicated by the climate of demonstrations for racial justice.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Communication,Cultural Studies

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01968599221141082

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