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Tricksters of

Tricksters of. Mischief, myth and meaning in UK tabloid newspapers. Can analytical psychology help society understand the Trickster function in popular journalism?. Proposed doctoral dissertation of James Alan Anslow MA. Your Daily Mercury. Hermes the deified Trickster

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  1. Tricksters of Mischief, myth and meaning in UK tabloid newspapers Can analytical psychology help society understand the Trickster function in popular journalism? Proposed doctoral dissertation of James Alan Anslow MA

  2. Your Daily Mercury • Hermes the deified Trickster • Journalists: communicators and makers of meaning • My experience as news story teller • My MA: news as myth: archetypal projections in running stories • My book chapter and joint paper: the Media Trickster and..

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  4. Literature • Jung: Trickster, Hermes and technology • Post Jungians: Samuels, Hockley, Bassil-Morozow, Tannen et al • Media and semiotics: Fiske, Baudrillard, Barthes, Shirky et al • Nothing on newspapers (apart from When a Princess Dies)

  5. Structure • Methodology: Textual analysis of selected redtop newspaper s and their stories, questionnaires, interviews, focus groups • Three-year schedule • Full-time study • Chapters: 1. Introduction 2.Literature review, 3. Contextual review of media landscape 4. Textual analysis of case studies and review of interview findings 5. Comparison of Trickster function with journalism function 6. Conclusion

  6. Expectation • That an exploration of the Trickster function drawing on Jungian and post-Jungian insights will illuminate and inform the societal and psychological functioning of tabloid journalism • I expect this study to identify the tabloids’ meaning-making importance for millions of readers and to explore the implication of their shrinking presence amid the tectonic technological changes sweeping the news publiction industry

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