Syncretic expertise in TED Talks

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Anesa
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Critical Stimulus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Communicative Success ◽  
Ted Talks

This paper focuses on the popularization of information related to environmental issues in media texts, with a particular focus on TED Talks. TED talks are a distinctive genre with has considerable social implications, especially when the presentations concern themes such as the environment, the understanding of which is a key determinant in the full realization of specific environmental policies. In this respect, this study suggests a critical need to go beyond the purely technical analysis of environmental issues by framing them within a wider discourse, which is more likely to influence the public at large. The paper explores a corpus of popular talks which deal with environmental issues and analyzes their macro-structural components. Methodologically, traditional genre analysis is integrated with a critical stimulus in order to unveil the strategies employed to overcome the technophilic/technophobic dichotomy which often typifies environmental discourse. The findings show the flexible and dynamic nature of TED Talks. Their communicative success lies specifically in the ability of the presenters to attract the audience’s attention by making use of different communicative strategies and drawing on different forms of expertise, within the specific structural constraints imposed by this genre.

The Popularization of Environmental Rights in TED Talks

Pólemos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-219
Author(s):  
Patrizia Anesa
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Environmental Rights ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Social Importance ◽  
Ted Talks

Abstract Knowledge about the discursive strategies employed in environmental communication when addressing social practices is fundamental in order to understand how the public’s active engagement and behavioral change can be brought about, encouraged or discouraged through environmental discourse. This paper purports to investigate the representation and popularization of environmental rights in media texts, with particular focus on TED talks. More specifically, the analysis aims to explore which and how communicative meanings are continuously constructed around environmental issues. The popularization strategies present in a collection of TED talks are investigated, and processes of accommodation and simplification are analyzed with the aim to point out any discrepancies between the nature of rights in legal texts, and their textual realization in non-legal examples. The analysis traces the malleability of terminology related to environmental rights and shows how the selective usage of qualifying words like “sustainability” and “solidarity” can contribute to the fungibility of the concept of “environmental right” itself. The paper also emphasizes the broad social importance assumed by the mismatch between the need for clear legal definitions and the leverage of vague terminology to favor specific policies.

scholarly journals Preparedness of Young People for a Sustainable Lifestyle: Awareness and Willingness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7204
Author(s):  
Anastazija Dimitrova ◽  
Antonín Vaishar ◽  
Milada Šťastná
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Problem ◽  
Sustainable Lifestyle ◽  
Local Companies ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between a consumer lifestyle and the environment. The willingness to adapt to a sustainable lifestyle was tested through a questionnaire among students of Mendel University in Brno, who are theoretically well-informed people. Overall, 417 students answered, i.e., 19% of the respondents. The students generally recognised the need to address environmental issues, and 90.6% intended to change their lifestyle in this direction. Among the barriers, they mentioned in particular lack of time, lack of financial resources, lack of specific information and insufficient conditions. Addressing this issue requires close co-operation in education between governmental and non-governmental organisations in both the public and private sectors. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the situation in that it has drawn attention to the response of local companies to the global problem.

Analysis of the Realization Approach to the Eco-Friendly Transportation Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 40-41 ◽  
pp. 659-668
Author(s):  
Jin Ming Yuan ◽  
Ju Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Government

The transportation is the core functional elements in the logistics activities. If not focusing on implementation of eco-friendly management in the process of logistic transportation, it is impossible to build an eco-friendly logistic system as a whole. Developed countries attach great importance to environmental issues and spare no effort in promoting the reform of logistics transportation. In order to comply with sustainable development in society and economy, China's transportation industry is urgently in need of more scientific management. Based on the relevant issues of current logistic transportation, from the perspectives of multi-subject such as the government, the enterprises and the public, this article analyzes the feasible approach to achieving the eco-friendly transportation management to ensure harmonious development of efficient transportation, social economy, environment and resources.

scholarly journals Judicial Resources and the Public Trust Doctrine: A Powerful Tool of Environmental Protection?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Richardson Oakes
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Supreme Court Justice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Trust Doctrine ◽  
Legal Frameworks

AbstractUnited Kingdom Supreme Court Justice Robert Carnwath has urged the judiciary to develop ‘common laws of the environment’, which can operate within different legal frameworks, tailored where necessary towards specific constitutions or statutory codes. One such mechanism with the potential for repositioning environmental discourse in both common law and civil law jurisdictions is the doctrine of the public trust. Basing their arguments upon a heritage of civil law and common law, supporters of the public trust doctrine are currently testing its scope in United States federal courts via groundbreaking litigation aimed at forcing the federal government to uphold its duty to protect the atmosphere. This article considers whether common law judicial resourcefulness can transform a transatlantic hybrid of uncertain parentage into a powerful tool of environmental protection.

scholarly journals Individual solutions to collective problems: the paradoxical treatment of environmental issues on Mexican and French YouTubers' videos

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. A07
Author(s):  
Cecilia Lartigue ◽  
Guillaume Carbou ◽  
Muriel Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Country Specific

The impact of human activity on our planet is undeniable. However, this matter of fact is not fully understandable without analyzing the narratives through which people make sense of it. In this study, we aim to describe the narratives present in environmental discourses of Mexican and French YouTubers' videos. This corpus is intended to show how environmental issues are framed in the ever-growing discursive arena of entertainment and “influencing” streaming video. We set out to perform a cross-country comparison, with the purpose of contributing to the discussion of whether environmental discourse is country-specific or shared by various nations and, possibly, even global. Our study contributes to the understanding of the social construction of the environment via these discourses. Our main result points to a paradoxical treatment of environmental issues: the YouTubers of our sample represent them as collectively induced problems, but seem to mainly believe that individual-based solutions would resolve them. More broadly, our study suggests a tendency to the individualization and, therefore, the depoliticization of environmental issues as well as a globalization of the environmental discourses in YouTubers' videos.

COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES OF EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE PERFORMED IN TED TALKS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Karnyushina ◽  
Galina Khorokhorina ◽  
Dmitriy Slisovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Ted Talks

A Discussion of Communicative Strategies and Patterns by Nonspeaking Persons

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard C. Shane ◽  
Carol G. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Societal Implications ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communicative Strategies

Interaction patterns and strategies of communication used by nonspeaking persons are described, pertaining to eight methods of communication frequently utilized by nonspeakers. Although these communication forms are generally recognized and used by the public at large, they have greater value for handicapped communicators. Professional and societal implications of greater exposure to nonspeaking persons in general and augmentative systems in particular are also described.

Interactions between institutional logics and cultural dynamics in the public–private integration process

2020 ◽  
pp. 002085231989123
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Thelisson ◽  
Olivier Meier
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Logics ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State

This article underlines the specificities of public–private mergers by presenting the interactions between the institutional logics at stake and the cultural dynamics during the integration process of a public–private merger. The article presents a longitudinal case study of a public–private merger of two listed French companies over two years. Our study completes and enriches Schultz’s model by showing its dynamic nature and highlighting the crucial role of the state as a trigger for the interactions between institutional logics and cultural dynamics. Points for practitioners By highlighting the interactions between cultural dynamics and institutional logics, we trace how cultural dynamics influence the decision-making process and how institutional logics influence integration by becoming dominant. We demonstrate how the state influences the interactions between these forces during the integration process.

Consumer campaigns in corporate public affairs management

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Schlichting
Keyword(s):  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Climate Regulation ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Public Affairs Management

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use expert interviews with communication managers of the German energy industry to analyze the strategic aims and challenges of consumer campaigns as a relatively new phenomenon in German public affairs management. The analysis is based on structuration theory, which is used as a theoretical framework. This framework helps to conceptualize the different logics of action within non-public and public paths of public affairs management, their stakeholders and respective instruments. Design/methodology/approach – Expert interviews with German public affairs managers from multinational and regional energy corporations as well as industry associations were conducted regarding their communication in the context of climate regulation. Based on this data, the study reconstructs manager’s strategic considerations about why to engage in consumer campaigns, and analyses the challenges they see with them, and the strategies they employ to handle these. Findings – Managers perceive the importance of the public path of regulative intervention as growing along with a strong media orientation of political authorities. Against this backdrop they describe the bypassing of critical journalists and the engaging of critical individuals and minorities as the strategic aims of consumer campaigns. They portray a lack of credibility as the main challenge of such campaigns – and relativising the corporation’s societal efforts as well as allowing public critique as most promising strategies to handle this challenge. Originality/value – The contribution of the study is twofold: first, it adds to the scientific analysis of consumer campaigns as a rather new phenomenon in German public affairs management. Second, practitioners may utilize the results as impulses for their own communicative strategies in the context of public affairs management.

‘This is Our Way In’: The Civil Society of Environmental NGOs in South-West China

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political System ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
West China ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Ngos ◽  
South West ◽  
Transitioning Countries

AbstractA growing number of Chinese environmental groups constitute not only an effective force in tackling environmental issues, but also a genuine civil society that is transforming state-society relations in China. This paper will consider how the environmental movement now taking shape among south-western China's environmental NGOs creates new civic freedoms and deals with existing constraints under the current Chinese political system. While this empowerment of local citizens will have a broadly positive influence on the protection of China's environment, precedent from other transitioning countries shows that environmental movements can be inextricably linked to important new freedoms for the public as well as jarring political change.

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