Media codes survive changes in subject matter but not the selections made under them

Evidence

The more unclear the news item and the more uncertain or doubtful the newsman is in how to report it, the more likely it is to be reported in a general framework that has been already established. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 224 (#expands, via linked claim)

Communication media are raised above the taken-for-granted reality of normal life only where influence is contingent and thereby, for once, rather improbable. Only when, and in so far as, goods are scarce does the active claim to some of them on the part of one person become a problem for others, and this situation is then regulated by a communication medium, which transfers the action selected by the one person into the experience of the others and so makes it acceptable. In the context of scarcity, influence becomes precarious in a special way, so that, in view of this unusual situation, a specifically generalized communication medium can take shape, which makes possible the transmission of reduced complexity in this case, but not in others. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 605 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media selects events based on alignment with existing frameworks. — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics: the…, 224; Communication media form only where selection has become contingent and improbable — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 605; Media do ideological labor by assigning events to classifying schemes. (+1 more)

Related

• Media do ideological labor by assigning events to classifying schemes. (similarity 0.88)
• Media selects events based on alignment with existing frameworks. (similarity 0.88)
• Communication media form only where selection has become contingent and improbable (similarity 0.80)
• Media-code institutionalization requires public visibility of selective processes. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Media selects events based on alignment with existing frameworks. #expands (0.55) — Cohen, Stanley, Folk devils and moral panics, 224
• Communication media form only where selection has become contingent and improbable #qualifies (0.50) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 605
• Media do ideological labor by assigning events to classifying schemes. #expands (0.50)