scholarly journals Humanitarianism, Securitization and Humanitarian Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-50
Author(s):  
Alice Massari
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media Environment

AbstractTo unpack the role that transnational humanitarian NGOs play in contemporary systems of governance and highlight how they contribute, through their visual production, to the securitization of the refugee issue, it is important to introduce the notions of humanitarianism, global governance, and securitization. Also, since NGOs do not operate in a vacuum but within a highly competitive media environment, it is equally important to reflect on the ways in which humanitarian ideals are translated into their communication strategies and how these fit within the larger communication landscape. This chapter presents the literature and the theoretical framework on which this book is based.

Global Governance in a World of Change

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
World War ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Modes Of Governance

Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to different issue areas in order to assess how global governance has changed and why. In most issue areas, hierarchical modes of governance, established after World War II, have given way to alternative forms of organization focused on market or network-based architectures. Each chapter explores whether these changes are likely to lead to more or less effective global governance across a wide range of issue areas. This provides a novel and coherent theoretical framework for analysing change in global governance.

Can Your Business Have One Million Friends?

2013 ◽  
pp. 125-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soyean (Julia) Kim ◽  
Barbara A. Bickart ◽  
Frédéric F. Brunel ◽  
Seema Pai
Keyword(s):  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Framework

In this chapter, we develop a theoretical framework that explains how blogs can be categorized based on audiences’ perceptions and how bloggers use different strategies to shape or shift their audiences’ perceptions and increase the persuasiveness of their messages. We posit that bloggers use two distinguishable communication strategies: (a) developing and sustaining an illusion of relationship between the blogger and the reader in order to individualize the communication, and (b) maintaining a level of ambiguity in their commercial interests in order to conceal the commercial nature of some blogs. We describe the tactics underlying the use of these strategies as well as the efficacy and ethics of these practices.

scholarly journals ‘Is this a Time of Beautiful Chaos?’: Reflecting on International Feminist Legal Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-203
Author(s):  
Faye Bird
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Nonideal Theory ◽  
Conceptual Clarity

Abstract This article considers how Margaret Jane Radin’s theory of the feminist double bind can bring conceptual clarity to the difficulties feminisms face in engaging with political and legal institutions of global governance. I draw on her theory to reinitiate a conversation on ideal and nonideal theory, in order to answer the call of key proponents in international legal feminism to reevaluate methodologies in critiquing mainstream institutions. By providing an account of how to navigate the double bind, this article brings conceptual clarity to the tension between resistance and compliance that has been argued to lie at the heart of the feminist project in international law. I demonstrate how this theoretical framework can foster greater pluralist perspectives in feminist engagement of ideal theories to temper the deradicalising and conservative risk of navigating feasibility constrained nonideal strategies.

scholarly journals What's wrong with Me?: An Autoethnographic Investigation of the Co-Cultural Communicative Practices of Living with Tourette Syndrome during Adolescence

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Congdon
Keyword(s):  
Tourette Syndrome ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Communicative Practices

Using an Autoethnographic methodology, this essay explores how I was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome. My experience illustrates a dynamic and difficult process of understanding and negotiating assimilation, using a variety of communication strategies related to self-perception, perceptions of others, and interactions with others. Using Co-Cultural theory (CCT) as a theoretical framework, three themes emerged from my experience: (1) nonassertive assimilation: negotiating with relationships of authority, (2) aggressive assimilation: negotiating relationships with peers, and (3) nonassertive separation: the convergence of negotiating relationships of authority and with peers. It is my hope that my story expands the awareness and conversation among and within academia regarding the influence that dominant cultural groups, norms, and labels have on the experience of adolescence living with TS as it relates to educational experiences.

scholarly journals Mediated Skewed Diffusion of Issues Information: A Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511880031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bree McEwan ◽  
Christopher J. Carpenter ◽  
Jill E. Hopke
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Interpersonal Processes ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Media

The modern media ecology has changed drastically over the last decade yet scholarly theoretical perspectives lag behind lay theories regarding news diffusion making it difficult to fully articulate and understand the processes driving dissemination of information and persuasion across networks and media contexts. The proposed theoretical framework takes into account extant research on the multiple mechanisms, specifically, cognitive ego involvement, the media environment, and interpersonal processes that operate in concert to influence the way information about societal issues is diffused through digital communication channels. The theoretical framework of mediated skewed diffusion of issues information provides 11 testable propositions. These are put forth to provide a foundation and encourage future research on information dissemination, online persuasion, and position polarization.

scholarly journals Risk communication as an operation meant to produce and share audiences

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (49) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Daniela Korbas-Magal
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

In this article, Luhmann's system theory is used as a theoretical framework for analysing the way risk communicators view their social functions. Narrated experiences from risk communicators in practice facilitate an understanding of risk communication as both an external irritation to society and part of the mass communication system. They also aid in clarifying how perceptions of audiences are reflected in the risk-communication strategies. The analysis is based on qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews conducted with 22 risk communicators (scientific professionals, spokespeople and journalists) in Israel. Thematic areas reflected in interviewees' reported strategies embody their perception of audiences. Those themes include: the reduction of complexities; coding and sorting of information; autopoiesis (realisation/non-realisation of the risk); rationality; inherent paradoxes; and schema formation. In sum, the findings suggest that risk communicators play a major role in defining, creating and producing audiences for the mass communication system.

Socio-Mediated Scandals: Theorizing Political Scandals in a Digital Media Environment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Zulli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Scandals

Abstract Political scandals are a conspicuous characteristic of American democracy, and yet they have received little theoretical attention that might nuance our understanding of their nature and form. One key context yet to be extensively explored is digital technology and the enabling of vernacular discourses in the scandal narrative. Thus, this article develops a theoretical framework for studying political scandals in the digital age. I discuss this as a transformation from mediated scandals to socio-mediated scandals. Socio-mediated scandals: (a) reflect a more collaborative process, (b) are increasingly personalized, (c) are subject to amplified partisanship, and (d) are characterized by liveness, wherein scandals are quick, explosive, and then dissipate. The implications of this framework and opportunities for future research are discussed.

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