Constructing police as first responders: a critical rhetorical archetype analysis

IF 1.5 2区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2021-06-10 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2021.1934504

Joshua Guitar, S. Griffith

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Utilizing Critical Race theory, this essay constitutes an ideological critique of recent mediated discourses that construct police officers as “heroic first responders.” Through the rhetorical archetype, this analysis reveals how the discursive shift to describe police as “heroic first responders” operates as a covert, ideological response to Black Lives Matter and the mediated depictions of Black trauma via law enforcement. Elucidated through the analysis of recent media artifacts that celebrate first responders, this project demonstrates how the amalgamation of police officers, emergency medical technicians, and firefighters diverts attention away from the whiteness of law enforcement and demands for racial justice. As temporary and cultural, the rhetorical archetype of “police as heroic first responders” dictates the erasure of Black voice, perpetuates an oppressive ideology of whiteness, silences dissent, and propagates the celebration of police officers in the wake of demands for police reform.

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建构警察作为第一反应者:一个批判修辞原型分析

本文运用批判种族理论，对近期将警察建构为“英勇的第一响应者”的中介话语进行意识形态批判。通过修辞原型，本分析揭示了将警察描述为“英勇的第一响应者”的话语转变如何作为对黑人生命重要的隐蔽的意识形态回应，以及通过执法对黑人创伤的中介描述。该项目通过分析最近媒体对急救人员的赞扬，展示了警察、紧急医疗技术人员和消防员的合并如何转移了人们对执法部门白人化和种族正义要求的关注。作为暂时的和文化的，“警察是英勇的第一反应者”的修辞原型决定了黑人声音的消除，延续了白人的压迫意识形态，使异议噤声，并在警察改革的要求之后宣传警察的庆祝活动。

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.