Journalism practices both express and reshape a society’s social imaginaries.

Evidence

In this article, I relate this to how both national and local journalism practices are built upon particular social imaginaries which in turn reinforce or challenge how journalists report on stories involving Muslims. — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 22

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to media-framing literature and to the idea that news routines encode unspoken norms rather than merely reporting facts. — connects to: Mass media can reset whole societies’ expectations of a normal lifestyle nationwide. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 161