Media, the Public Sphere, and the Globalization of Social Problems

2020 ◽  
pp. 321-335
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Hallin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

scholarly journals Agama Sebagai Transpormasi Sosial

EL-Ghiroh ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
EKO NOPRIYANSA
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Harmonious Society ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
The Public Sphere

Seems that the position of intellectual community gets its own attention to the public because by knowing it is expected to be able to convey an objective and neutral view in providing views on a social problem. Therefore intellectuals are characterized by their ability to respond critically to social problems through discussion or writing in the public sphere. In a wider social context, important roles as well as having the main potential in correcting social problems include religious leaders, pioneers, and intellectuals, where they have a great responsibility for a harmonious society both in religion and more in the state.

Hakim Perempuan Dalam Perspektif Hukum Islam Dan Hukum Positif Indonesia

AKADEMIKA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Judicial Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Courts ◽  
Muslim Scholars

The judicial institution in a country is very strategic and decisive one for being used to resolve all public disputes and punish those who violate the law in accordance with the emering rules. This judicial institution is needed in an effort to answer and solve all social problems along with the development and the dynamics in the community. A judge is an authority aimed at resolving the various conflicts and creating justice for the community, and judges are leading actors in solving the problems. Therefore judges in acting and taking decisions must be based on so-called ijtihad. The phenomenon of women's involvement as judges in administering judicial power in the Religious Courts has undergone several phases of change. This condition is strongly influenced by the striking discrepancy of fiqh viewpoints about the religious (syar'i) legality  in looking at women in the public sphere, especially in the judiciary. One of the reasons of Muslim scholars in questioning the female judges is due to their duties and responsibilities. On this stand, the Muslim scholars, thingkers and mujtahid have their own points of view that are different from one another. This refusal does not mean ignoring the judicial institution, but rather they consider it fardhu kifayah. Therefore, what is to be revealed in this study is the Islamic law and Indonesian positive law perspectives about female judges. This study concludes that the study of female judges in the perspectives of Islamic law is polarized on several permitting and prohibiting poles and the ones permitting women to serve as judges are only in their involvement in civil cases not in criminal ones. While based on the perspective of Indonesian positive law the female judges are a must in the legal treasures in Indonesia

scholarly journals The Articulation of Public Problems within a Communicative Figuration Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Mălina Ciocea ◽  
Alexandru Cârlan ◽  
Bianca Cheregi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article proposes an analytical shift in the theorization of public problems, from the standard (institutional) constructionist view which has informed the tradition of conceptualising social problems since Spector and Kitsuse’s classic work, to a communicative constructionist view, stemming from the mediatization paradigm. The rationale behind this shift is based on the conceptualization of the relation between various types of actors as claim makers and the logic of visibility governing processes of publicization in a media ecology marked by accelerated development. If, in the new communicational landscape, claim-making activities can turn any new-media user into a potential constructor of public problems, then we need to explain how developments in media technology reconfigure the practices of claim-making. In our understanding, such reconfigurations are just a particular case of the socio-cultural processes of transformation which are the focus of the mediatization paradigm. On the other hand, in a Foucaultian tradition, a shift from problems to problematizations is required in order to account for the processual dynamic through which certain phenomena are analysed under specific circumstances and at certain times, while others are ignored. This shift leads to an understanding of communicative figurations as a meta-theoretical framework for the construction of public problems, accounting for the interdependencies between articulations of public problems and the dynamics of the public sphere. With this aim in view, we first identity and evaluate the theoretical directions that are symptomatic for the transition from social problems to public ones and from problems to problematizations. In the second part, we present the heuristic potential of the concept of communicative figurations for our topic and articulate some methodological implications for a research agenda.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

The Dynamics of Egypt’s “Semi-opposition,” 2004–11

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Mai Mogib Mosad
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political System ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

This paper maps the basic opposition groups that influenced the Egyptian political system in the last years of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. It approaches the nature of the relationship between the system and the opposition through use of the concept of “semi-opposition.” An examination and evaluation of the opposition groups shows the extent to which the regime—in order to appear that it was opening the public sphere to the opposition—had channels of communication with the Muslim Brotherhood. The paper also shows the system’s relations with other groups, such as “Kifaya” and “April 6”; it then explains the reasons behind the success of the Muslim Brotherhood at seizing power after the ousting of President Mubarak.

I Think We’re Alone Now

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-210
Author(s):  
Erin Nunoda
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article examines YouTube videos (primarily distributed by a user named Cecil Robert) that document so-called dead malls: unpopulated, unproductive, but not necessarily demolished consumerist sites that have proliferated in the wake of the 2008 recession. These works link digital images of mall interiors with pop-song remixes so as to re-create the experience of hearing a track while standing within the empty space; manipulating the songs’ audio frequencies heightens echo effects and fosters an impression of ghostly dislocation. This article argues that these videos locate a potentiality in abandoned mall spaces for the exploration of queer (non)relations. It suggests that the videos’ emphasis on lonely, unconsummated intimacies questions circuitous visions of the public sphere, participatory dynamics online, and the presumably conservative biopolitics (both at its height and in its memorialization) of mall architecture.

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