TY - JOUR
T1 - Constructing the nation every night
T2 - hegemonic formations in Today Tonight and A Current Affair
AU - Muscat, Tanya
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - Political articulations of identities and the nation occur both through the demands of the commercial current affairs format and the journalistic use of textual elements. The tabloid format engages in processes of politicising divergent cultural identities through the appeal to mass Australia. Indeed, the particular feature of ethnic individuals in content provides a hegemonic formation through which the 'nation' can be articulated. This article draws upon the discursive hegemony of Laclau and Mouffe to deliberate how the journalistic use of production elements functions to negotiate both identity and the nation through the sub-genre of sexuality. It uses a text-based analysis to argue that the content structure demonstrates how information can be constructed incongruously across production elements. The journalistic use of textual elements in Channel Seven's 'Today Tonight' and Channel Nine's 'A Current Affair' is analysed to reveal complexities in structuring discourses of the nation and representing identities.
AB - Political articulations of identities and the nation occur both through the demands of the commercial current affairs format and the journalistic use of textual elements. The tabloid format engages in processes of politicising divergent cultural identities through the appeal to mass Australia. Indeed, the particular feature of ethnic individuals in content provides a hegemonic formation through which the 'nation' can be articulated. This article draws upon the discursive hegemony of Laclau and Mouffe to deliberate how the journalistic use of production elements functions to negotiate both identity and the nation through the sub-genre of sexuality. It uses a text-based analysis to argue that the content structure demonstrates how information can be constructed incongruously across production elements. The journalistic use of textual elements in Channel Seven's 'Today Tonight' and Channel Nine's 'A Current Affair' is analysed to reveal complexities in structuring discourses of the nation and representing identities.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85000766805&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1329878X1515500104
DO - 10.1177/1329878X1515500104
M3 - Article
SN - 1329-878X
SP - 16
EP - 27
JO - Media International Australia
JF - Media International Australia
IS - 155
ER -