High profile rape trials and policy advocacy

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
Kristine Coulter ◽  
David S. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Secondary Treatment ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Focusing Events ◽  
Problem Construction ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Rape Trials ◽  
Events Data

AbstractActivists try to use high profile trials to advance their political agendas, and we want to understand why they occasionally succeed in promoting policy reforms. We begin by reviewing literature on agenda setting and social problem construction, conceptualising high profile trials as “focusing events” that offer activists a chance to advance their definitions and remedies for particular social problems. We next outline the feminist movement against sexual violence as a useful example of activists trying to use trials for their own political purposes. Using events data from theNew York Timesand the secondary treatment of 13 high profile trials from 1960 to 1997, we examine factors that help or hinder activists’ efforts to use a trial to forward their cause. We see that both the nature of the trial and the political context surrounding it affect the likelihood that a movement gains control of its meaning and secures policy reform.

Immaturity: Reflections on the “Great (Queer) YA Debate”

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Derritt Mason
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The New Yorker

This book’s conclusion reiterates the argument that queer YA is an anxious genre that perpetually rehearses a nervous uncertainty about its own constitution. Mason steps back to consider queer YA’s relationship to children’s literature more broadly, entering the discussion through a concept developed in Beverley Lyon Clark’s Kiddie Lit: the “anxiety of immaturity” that circulates around and within children’s literature and its criticism. Mason revisits the “Great YA Debate” of 2014, which followed a Slate piece by Ruth Graham entitled “Adults Should Be Embarrassed to Read Young Adult Books.” This debate included high profile pieces by Christopher Beha and A.O. Scott in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, both of which evince a profound ambivalence about whether or not adults should be reading young adult literature. These conversations, Mason concludes, illustrate how young adult literature continues to be an unceasing source of adult anxiety.

Transformations (1979–1984)

Wendy Carlos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 123-150
Author(s):  
Amanda Sewell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
Symphony Orchestras ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Digital Synthesis ◽  
First Time

This chapter addresses the first few years after Carlos returned to the public eye, which included high-profile projects such as the soundtracks to the films The Shining and TRON. She also gave interviews to the New York Times and Keyboard magazine, the latter of which also installed her on its advisory board. This was a period of several changes in Carlos’s life. She and Rachel Elkind ended their personal and professional relationship, she began what would be a lifelong relationship with Annemarie Franklin, she began using digital synthesis instead of analog, and she worked with symphony orchestras for the first time.

On the Condition of Anonymity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Carlson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Media ◽  
American History ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
High Profile ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Narrative Thread ◽  
The Right ◽  
Confidential Sources

This book confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W. Bush administration, from prewar reporting mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post to the Valerie Plame leak case and Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News. Weaving a narrative thread that stretches from the uncritical post-9/11 era to the spectacle of the Scooter Libby trial, the book examines a tense period in American history through the lens of journalism. Revealing new insights about high-profile cases involving confidential sources, he highlights contextual and structural features of the era, including pressure from the right, scrutiny from new media and citizen journalists, and the struggles of traditional media to survive amid increased competition and decreased resources. In exploring the recent debates among journalists and critics over the appropriate roles of media, the book underscores the potential for unattributed information to be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital institutions and a means for embroiling journalists in controversy and damaging the credibility of already struggling news outlets. The book maps the varying perspectives on confidential sources to foster a deeper understanding of moments of crisis, anxiety, transformation, and power in American history and American journalism.

Inhaltsanalyse elektronisch gespeicherter Massendaten der internationalen Presse

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Galliker ◽  
Jan Herman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times

Zusammenfassung. Am Beispiel der Repräsentation von Mann und Frau in der Times und in der New York Times wird ein inhaltsanalytisches Verfahren vorgestellt, das sich besonders für die Untersuchung elektronisch gespeicherter Printmedien eignet. Unter Co-Occurrence-Analyse wird die systematische Untersuchung verbaler Kombinationen pro Zähleinheit verstanden. Diskutiert wird das Problem der Auswahl der bei der Auswertung und Darstellung der Ergebnisse berücksichtigten semantischen Einheiten.

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