Framing Inflation and Investment: The New York Times and the Cultural Context of a Local Housing Market

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Mirella Landriscina1
1Department of Social Sciences, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, USA

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Examining the work of local media can be a valuable starting point for exploring the institutionally shaped cultural contexts within which local housing markets are embedded and for shedding light on market phenomena like local housing bubbles. This paper draws on a qualitative analysis of articles published in the Real Estate section of the New York Times to explore some of the meanings about homeownership, home-buying, and market behavior that were institutionally reinforced in New York City during a period of growing unease about the direction of the local market. Through the use of framing analysis, I conclude that the New York Times symbolically reinforced the contradictory role that real estate, “the secondary circuit of capital” plays in the economy.

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