The Engaged Public – Political Science Gap: An Analysis of New York Times Non-Fiction Bestsellers on Politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-274
Author(s):  
david r dreyer
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
Leszek Zinkow

Niespełna rok po amerykańskiej premierze na polskim rynku księgarskim pojawiła się książka, którą waszyngtońskie instytucje think tanks i prasa, zarówno specjalistyczna (od „Foreign Affairs” po „Kirkus Reviews”), jak codzienna (m.in. „New York Times”), zgodnie nazwały jedną z najlepszych i najważniejszych książek non fiction 2018 r., a wybitni eksperci – pośród nich Francis Fukuyama, gen. Michael Hayden (były dyrektor Narodowej Agencji Bezpieczeństwa USA oraz szef CIA) czy nawet Vinton Gray Cerf, uważany za jednego z wynalazców Internetu, i liczni inni komplementowali słowami najwyższego uznania. Oryginalny tytuł, brzmiący w języku angielskim bardzo celnie, a zarazem przewrotnie – LikeWar – co rozumieć można jednocześnie jako „wojnę lajków” i „nibywojnę”, przetłumaczony został bodaj nieco banalnie i mniej marketingowo: Nowy rodzaj wojny, dopiero druga jego część, podobnie do anglojęzycznej, doprecyzowuje, że chodzi o Media społecznościowe jako broń. W istocie jednak tytułowe sformułowania militarne – „wojna” oraz „broń” wskazują dobitnie na główny przedmiot analizy prowadzonej w książce, którą admirał marynarki Stanów Zjednoczonych i jeden z byłych najwyższych dowódców NATO, James G. Stavridis, zdefiniował jako najważniejszą analizę teorii konfliktu zbrojnego od czasów klasycznego Vom Kriege Carla von Clausewitza, skrojoną na miarę wyzwań XXI w.


Author(s):  
Georg Löfflmann

This chapter focuses on the New York Times best sellers list as the preeminent account of best-selling books in the United States to engage in a wider mapping of grand strategy discourses in American popular culture, beyond the realm of movie entertainment. Analyzing non-fiction books that have achieved the status of national bestseller illustrates how debates over grand strategy, American identity and national security are products of both political and popular culture, constructed in the public sphere at the multi-medial intersection of entertainment, journalism, academia and political commentary. The chapter details how competing discourses of American grand strategy have defined the past, present and future role and position of the United States in the popular imagination, reflecting a fractured public consensus over the ‘big picture.’ In this chapter, the analytical focus is on the cultural construction of a geopolitical identity of American leadership, military supremacy and national exceptionalism in popular works of non-fiction, and how key representations have confirmed or contested this dominant social construction of the American ‘Self’.


Ethnicities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Chambers ◽  
Richard Phillips ◽  
Nafhesa Ali ◽  
Peter Hopkins ◽  
Raksha Pande

We begin this article with a close look at some contemporary pictures of sexual life in the Muslim world that have been painted in certain sections of the Western media, asking how and why these pictures matter. Across a range of mainstream print media from the New York Times to the Daily Mail, and across reported events from several countries, can be found pictures of ‘sexual misery’. These ‘frame’ Muslim men as tyrannical, Muslim women as downtrodden or exploited, and the wider world of Islam as culpable. Crucially, this is not the whole story. We then consider how these negative representations are being challenged and how they can be challenged further. In doing so, we will not simply set pictures of sexual misery against their binary opposites, namely pictures abounding in the promise of sexual happiness. Instead, we search for a more complex picture, one that unsettles stereotypes about the sexual lives of Muslims without simply idealising its subjects. This takes us to the journalism, life writing and creative non-fiction of Shelina Zahra Janmohamed and the fiction of Ayisha Malik and Amjeed Kabil. We read this long-form work critically, attending to manifest advances in depictions of the relationships of Muslim-identified individuals over the last decade or so, while also remaining alert to lacunae and limitations in the individual representations. More broadly, we hope to signal our intention to avoid both Islamophobia and Islamophilia in scrutinising literary texts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Pearce

Hello! As this issue quickly follows our last there are only a few news items to share with you. The Forest of Reading / Festival of Trees 2019 which is a national festival, held its largest event in Toronto from May 14 to 16. Students read a variety of Canadian children’s books throughout the year and then vote on their favourite book. Awards are then granted for books in a variety of different categories. The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has a lovely summary article about the festival that includes a lengthy list of all the winners. You can also see all the nominees for the various awards on the Ontario Library Association website. The Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable (VCLR) has announced it’s Information Book Award Shortlist. It includes eight juvenile non-fiction titles. Voting for winners continues into the fall and the winner will be announced in November. The Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Annual General Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 6:00 pm. CCBC members and the general public are welcome to attend: Room 224, Northern District Library / 40 Orchard View Blvd. / Toronto, Ontario M4R 1B9 On a final note, the Children’s book author Judith Kerr passed away earlier this month. Kerr was known for her book The Tiger that Came to Tea. The New York Times recently published an obituary tribute to Kerr. Best wishes for a wonderful summer! Hanne


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

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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