Abstract:
Drawing from a study in which a large set of media coverage from local Norwegian newspaper articles on contentious measures have been analysed, the seminar will discuss policy narratives as a theoretical perspective and as a qualitative text analysing method. Understanding the role of policy narratives is becoming increasingly important in urban studies. Narratives are used to influence public opinion toward support for a particular policy preference. Media can reflect or represent the various policy beliefs in the policy system. Media is in this sense part of constructing policy narratives. I will present some basic rationales behind the perspective as well as some findings from the study on contentious measures.
This seminar is jointly arranged together with the transport research group.
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