TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnostic Narratives
T2 - Creating Visions of Austrian Society in Print Media Accounts of Obesity
AU - Penkler, Michael
AU - Felder, Kay Franziska
AU - Felt, Ulrike
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 SAGE Publications
PY - 2015/6
Y1 - 2015/6
N2 - This study explores how Austrian newspapers and magazines report on the obesity epidemic. We show how the media provide a space for formulating situated diagnostic narratives, that is, accounts that develop both a diagnosis of society through the lens of a health phenomenon and a definition of the phenomenon itself. Nourished by globally circulating discourses, these narratives are articulated in a national context and are enmeshed in biopolitical struggles. Linking a diagnosis of society to the biomedical sphere grants authority to diagnostic narratives and creates a space in which otherwise contestable moral calls to return to traditional orders can be articulated.
AB - This study explores how Austrian newspapers and magazines report on the obesity epidemic. We show how the media provide a space for formulating situated diagnostic narratives, that is, accounts that develop both a diagnosis of society through the lens of a health phenomenon and a definition of the phenomenon itself. Nourished by globally circulating discourses, these narratives are articulated in a national context and are enmeshed in biopolitical struggles. Linking a diagnosis of society to the biomedical sphere grants authority to diagnostic narratives and creates a space in which otherwise contestable moral calls to return to traditional orders can be articulated.
KW - biopolitics
KW - health communication
KW - mass media
KW - narratives
KW - obesity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84930518820&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1075547015575791
DO - 10.1177/1075547015575791
M3 - Article
SN - 1552-8545
VL - 37
SP - 314
EP - 339
JO - Science Communication
JF - Science Communication
IS - 3
ER -