When Words Make Fences: A Look Into How Words and Media Narratives Contribute to the Creation of a Fortress Europe

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Katy Fallon
Keyword(s):  
The Creation ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
Media Narratives

scholarly journals Speculation over the Love for Rock Music. Media Constructions of Groupies Between the 1960s and 1970s

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Karolina Karbownik
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Constructions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Media Narratives

The music media have constructed the identity of groupies as sexual and passive objects, submissive, inauthentic consumers of music. The stereotype, although still present in popular culture, is criticized by both the interested parties and rock artists. This article is an attempt to discuss the role that groupies played in the creation of the myth and character of the rock god, while taking into account the preconceived assumptions held by the popular media. Narratives of groupies’ participation in the emerging rock and metal scene have also been included as the ones which created a male rock musician identity: wild, aggressive and powerful. The basis for the discussion of groupies and their role in building identity in the context of rock music is the result of a deep, rhetorical analysis of groupies’ biographies, press materials, films, scientific literature and own research.

To Trust in Strange Habits and Last Calls

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hunter Hargraves
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Good Wife ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Mobile Smartphone ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of mobile smartphone culture on TV narrative through an examination of the network series The Good Wife ( TGW; CBS, 2009–2016). Ubiquitous smartphone use proffers a managerial relationship between subject and device, such that smartphone culture becomes necessary for navigating between different spheres of life. Furthermore, as smartphones occupy a greater role in public life, they have also begun to shape the creation of story in media narratives. I argue that smartphones have become a tool of narrative management for network drama not unlike the ways in which they govern everyday life. TGW’s narrative form and genre—a unique negotiation between episodic procedural and serial melodrama—successfully mirror the management of routine informational and emotional flows, structuring narrative and spectatorial habits while also accommodating for technology’s glitches.

scholarly journals Portrait of a Teach for All (TFA) teacher: Media narratives of the universal TFA teacher in 12 countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Gautreaux ◽  
Sandra Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Certified Teachers ◽  
Traditionally Certified ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Media Narratives

This article employs narrative analysis to examine how the media in 12 different countries characterize the Teach for All (TFA) teacher.  Examining mass media narratives in these 12 countries illustrates that there are some remarkable commonalities in the narratives and character portraits co-constructed and propagated by the media. At the core of these narratives is the notion of a problem in education. This problem justifies the creation and emergence of a character, commonly constructed in opposition to traditionally certified teachers, who embodies the characteristics and attributes of the contemporary neoliberal subject. This article discusses the implications of this character’s widespread representation; namely, how does the character construction influence the broader public perception about education and how is it contributing to the (re)imagination of the role of the teacher?

scholarly journals Mediations of ‘the Refugee Crisis’: The (Ir)reconciliation of Ideological Contradictions in Fortress Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Callum Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Public Imagination

In the UK, the summer of 2015 saw the national popular press and public imagination captivated by the ‘refugee crisis’. On both mass and social media sites, public opinion predominantly orientated around two major narratives. On one hand, amidst the dramatic scenes in Calais (as well as elsewhere), the European media worked into a fervour of fear, amid concerns about the ‘swarms’ of migrants purported to be ‘invading’ Europe (Squires 2015, The Telegraph). Taking a theoretical focus through Agamben’s work and giving reverence to where his concerns converge with aspects of postcolonial theory, the following investigation unpacks how the hegemonic (new) media narratives have intensely cycled into an emotionally charged dichotomous discourse obfuscating a multitude of other key considerations. Employing content analysis, this article reads three cultural texts scraped from social media to discuss the ways in which the construction of the refugee identity has been shaped in the public imagination; it calls into question how forefronting the figure of the refugee has foreclosed wider debates about alternative agendas contributing to the processes of Fortressing Europe.

The role of affect in feelings of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

Haydn: The Creation

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Temperley
Keyword(s):  
The Creation
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